Cardin Criticizes Planned Maryland Postal Closures

The United States Postal Service has announced cuts that will affect three mail processing facilities in Maryland and is studying the closure of a third, to Sen. Ben Cardin’s dismay.

Young, Underemployed Graduates Make Pitch for Obama Jobs Program

Braden Dauer has been looking for a government or political job since he graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2009, but despite putting in hundreds of applications he’s still underemployed. He joined other youth in support of President Obama’s jobs program.

Cardin Takes Aim — Again — at Racial Profiling Problem

Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., revived a bill to end racial profiling — an idea that won bipartisan support in 2001, but became a casualty of the terrorist attacks that year.