Nope. This is.

Well, it's sort of a long story so I'll leave a lot out but if you want to know more, you can Google " HSCRC and Facility Fee"

Maryland is special when it comes to rates charged by hospitals. I believe it's the only state that has their own Cost Review Commission (HSCRC). The HSCRC is a state agency that basically sets cost ranges for healthcare services. They actually set the rates hospitals can charge for the facility fees.

Anyway, two of the goals of the HSCRC is price transparency and lowering costs (and they do a pretty good job). The bill basically says hospitals can charge the facility fee, but it needs to be transparent (they have to tell you about it) and the bill also says the patient can request a written estimate of charges at any time before or during their visit.

I never understood these arguments. Yes those were horrible crimes and we should have police patrols on foot. But did the suspects enter and escape using public transit? Because if not, then it would be irrelevant right? People can come in and out of Towson, it is not the method of transportation that is the problem.

I’m not a fan of overdevelopment — specifically destroying green or wooded areas to put up houses that most people in that area can’t afford — but I don’t see the problem with this? They don’t like apartments? Let’s call them “medium term condos” or something.

Is this the one Wes Moore is selling?

Yeah those light rail cars really need to stop murdering people

Having gone to neither but knowing people who have gone to both, I’d say BSA. If she’s able to get in, she’s clearly talented. You can go from arts to academia, but not as easily vice-versa, BSA would be a unique experience, while the academic experiences City offers she could still have in other ways, or in college.

Back before Hopkins learned to close for snow, my mom always bitched that the applied physics lab would close, but not the whole University. I work there now and thankfully they know how to close.

Glad that I could help!

Oddly enough, the best Philly cheesesteak that I have ever had in my life was not in Philly or Jersey - it was at a little gas-station grocery store in Shanghai, West Virginia back in 1999. I have no idea what exactly made it so good, but every cheesesteak I have had since then has simply failed to measure up.

The amount of people wanting to buy houses and move to Baltimore sight unseen in this sub is kind of scary.

Lol Hereford is a very expensive area for the most part

Western high school is also a great option and it’s all girls

The cops. I mean the fucking cops

Fuck. This makes me so sad. Between this and an iconic (yet small) part of Camden Yards going away, this has been a sad day

That's not a teacher's salary at all. I see an Assistant Principal that makes that much. I'm seeing on average $54k to $77k

Social workers are another that is way underpaid and overworked. For what they do and the education they must get to be that is crazy. The ROI to become that doesn't make any sense.

Yeah, wrong side of Loyola to be Homeland

All the numbers. Premium numbers, discount numbers, how high you can count, you name it_

Any chance of Friday/weekends? I'd love to join but I work early. Seems like such a great group. Anyways, awesome to see the group grow! Keep at it!_

This line of thinking is actually pretty lazy. It's straight out of the 90s. We've been "reforming" since Rodney King got the shit beat out of him on TV.

We don't have anything resembling the sort of constabulary we need. We have impulsive children running around with broad authority and no oversight, slaughtering and brutalizing people in the streets (and with dubious impact on public safety at that). That's urgent. That's grounds for pulling the plug. If a broken pipe is flooding your basement, you don't give the waters the "proverbial pat on the head." You don't go "well I need water, I can't just turn it off!" You stop the fucking flooding, and then you figure out how you're going to take a shower.

"Let's tweak this shit for another century until we get it right" is just lazy as hell. It really diminishes the severity of what we're facing: the state is routinely killing, brutalizing and violating citizens' rights. That's fucked.

> We don't need extremes to solve this problem.

What you called for is "reforming them to where they're virtually unrecognizable from who they are now." Who's the loudest 'reform' voice that you think embraces anything resembling this view?

FiM 92 Stinger: entered service in 1981 HIMARS: entered service 20+ years ago BGM71 TOW: entered service in the 1970s Just three bigger ticket examples. Old.

The recent horrific Towson crime wave is not going to make the area more amenable to public transit.

If they are looking to work in the Arts, BSA by far.

As a Poly grad, I can't in good conscience endorse City.

The source is the equipment they're being given.

The Abrams they're getting? They're not the modern variant, they're the OG variant that is still being tooled down before its sent overseas.

HIMARS? Cold War tech.

M117 APCs? 90s.

Javilens and Stingers? Cold War.

RAAM systems? Cold War.

Switchblade Drones? They're modern tech, but they're single use, and they only got 700.

TOW missiles? Cold War.

Bradley's? Cold War.

HARM missiles? Cold War.

HMMWVs? Cold War.

M113 APCs? EARLY Cold War.

https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-ukraine/

I could go on, but it's pretty clear the vast majority of the weapons systems we've sent to Ukraine are very outdated to anyone with even a passing knowledge of them.

What source do you have that they've been getting primarily cutting-edge edge tech? Cause if we're dragging our feet to give them F-16s I find the idea that they're getting the best of our newer equipment a tad silly.

What happened, essentially, is that influential society doesn't give a shit about Black people getting slaughtered by the state. We're not going to hold cops accountable until white kids on the right of the tracks start getting beaten and killed en masse. It's a tale as old as America.