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Kent Roberson
Kent A. Roberson is an American politician who is currently a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from Maryland Legislative District 25, District 25. Background Roberson was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated from Frederick Douglass High School (Prince George's County, Maryland), Frederick Douglass High School and later attended Ball State University, earning a bachelor's and master's degree in political science in 2002 and 2007, and the Wesley Theological Seminary, where he earned a Master of Divinity degree in 2003. Roberson first got involved in politics during high school in 2002, working as a student page for the Maryland House of Delegates. In 2013, he started work in the Maryland General Assembly mailroom. After graduating, Roberson worked as an intern for U.S. Representative Albert Wynn, later serving as a senior government relations manager for the Corn Refiners Association and the vice president of the Prince George's County Parent Teacher Student Associati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryland Legislative District 25
Maryland, Maryland's Legislative District 25 is one of 47 districts in the state for the Maryland General Assembly. It covers part of Prince George's County, Maryland, Prince George's County. Demographic characteristics As of the 2020 United States census, the district had a population of 125,974, of whom 98,881 (78.5%) were of voting age. The racial makeup of the district was 6,635 (5.3%) White (U.S. Census), White, 103,109 (81.8%) African American (U.S. Census), African American, 572 (0.5%) Native American (U.S. Census), Native American, 1,878 (1.5%) Asian (U.S. Census), Asian, 13 (0.0%) Pacific Islander (U.S. Census), Pacific Islander, 7,548 (6.0%) from Race (United States Census), some other race, and 6,188 (4.9%) from two or more races. Hispanic (U.S. Census), Hispanic or Latino (U.S. Census), Latino of any race were 11,485 (9.1%) of the population. The district had 90,179 registered voters as of October 17, 2020, of whom 8,920 (9.9%) were registered as unaffiliated, 3,213 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corn Refiners Association
The Corn Refiners Association (CRA) is a trade association based in Washington, D.C. It represents the corn refining industry in the United States. Corn refining encompasses the production of corn starch, corn oil, and high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). Issues Antitrust law The CRA opposed the merger of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads on the grounds it would reduce competition and raise shipping prices. Biofuels In 2004, the CRA worked with the University of Illinois and the Agricultural Research Service to create computer models of ethanol production costs. Biotech In 2019, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed rules that would streamline the regulation of biotech crops including those that are genetically engineered. The rules would exempt such crops from regulation if the changes they introduce could have been made through traditional breeding methods. The proposed rules would give biotech firms three options: self-declaring their products ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl S
Cheryl is a feminine given name with multiple origins. The name might have originated as a combination of the name Beryl with the prefix ''Cher-'' from the French ''chérie'', meaning ''darling'' (from the past participle of the verb ''chérir'', ''to cherish''). The name has also been considered a variant of Charles, which is pronounced ''SHARL'' in French. Cheryl has been in use as a feminine name since the early 19th century. It came into greater use in the 1920s and was at the height of popularity between 1944 and 1979. It has many spelling variations. It has also been in rare use as a masculine name. https://www.behindthename.com/name/cheryl/top/united-states Notable people with the first name include: Cheryl * Cheryl (singer), formerly known as Cheryl Cole, English singer and television personality * Cheryl A. M. Anderson, American epidemiologist * Cheryl Arutt, American actress and psychologist * Cheryl Baker, British television presenter and former musician * Cheryl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryland State Archives
The Maryland State Archives serves as the central depository for government records of permanent value. Its holdings date from Maryland's founding in 1634, and include colonial and state executive, legislative, and judicial records; county probate, land, and court records; church records; business records; state publications and reports; and special collections of private papers, maps, photographs, and newspapers. These records are kept in a humidity and temperature controlled environment and any necessary preservation measures are conducted in the Archives' conservation laboratory. The Hall of Records, predecessor of the Maryland State Archives, was created as an independent agency in 1935, charged with the collection, custody, and preservation of the official records, documents, and publications of the state (Chapter 18, Acts of 1935). Impetus for its development can be traced to the state's tercentenary celebrations of 1934. The Maryland Tercentenary Commission made a moder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Washington, Maryland
Fort Washington is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. It borders the Potomac River, situated 20 miles south of downtown Washington, D.C. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 24,261. The Fort Washington community is located west of Maryland Route 210, with some additional area to the east of the highway. History The Fort The community is named for Fort Washington. The first Fort Washington was completed in 1809, and it was the only defensive fort protecting Washington, D.C. until the American Civil War. It consisted of a small earthwork near the shore of the Potomac River. The failure of that fort to stop a British fleet from invading the national capital during the War of 1812 led to the construction of the current, larger, stone fortification. In 1844, a cannon exploded on the USS ''Princeton'' as it was passing Fort Washington. During World War II, the US Army's Adjutant General's School was l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryland Matters
States Newsroom is a nonprofit news network in the United States. Its newsrooms focus mostly on state politics. States Newsroom grew out of NC Policy Watch, a progressive think tank founded in 2004 by Chris Fitzsimon, who said it "is sort of the model for the news sites we support". He is States Newsroom's current president. In 2017, the project expanded, using the liberal group the Hopewell Fund as an incubator until 2019 when States Newsroom became an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Organization States Newsroom provides funding, human resources, and digital support to journalists in the state newsrooms. It typically has 4-6 journalists per newsroom'''' and allows its articles to be republished for free under a Creative Commons license.'''' States Newsroom accepts no corporate donations and has publicly shared the names of all donors contributing $1,000 or more since becoming a 501(c)(3) in 2019. The progressive Wyss Foundation gave $1 million to States Newsroom in 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 United States Presidential Election
United States presidential election, Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 2020. The Democratic Party (United States), Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and California junior senator Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican Party (United States), Republican president Donald Trump and vice president Mike Pence. The election saw the highest Voter turnout in United States presidential elections, voter turnout by percentage 1900 United States presidential election, since 1900. Biden received more than 81 million votes, the List of United States presidential candidates by number of votes received, most votes ever cast for a presidential candidate in U.S. history. In a competitive primary that featured the most candidates for any political party in the Sixth Party System, modern era of American politics, Biden secured the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Democratic presidential nomination. Biden's running ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryland's 5th Congressional District
Maryland's 5th congressional district comprises all of Charles, St. Mary's, and Calvert counties (a region known as Southern Maryland), as well as portions of Prince George's and Anne Arundel counties. The district is currently represented by Democrat Steny Hoyer, who from 2007 to 2011 and from 2019 to 2023 was House Majority Leader. When it was defined in 1788, the 5th Congressional District centered on Salisbury, Maryland. It consisted of the current Maryland counties of Caroline, Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset, and Worcester. In 1792 the boundaries of Maryland's congressional districts were redrawn, and the 5th District was made to include Baltimore and Baltimore County. This district is safely Democratic, and has been in Democratic hands uninterrupted since the retirement of Lawrence Hogan (father of future Governor of Maryland Larry Hogan) in 1975. He was succeeded by Gladys Spellman, who served from 1975 until the seat was declared vacant by the House due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Ann Warren (née Herring; born June 22, 1949) is an American politician and former law professor who is the Seniority in the United States Senate, senior United States senator from the state of Massachusetts, serving since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party and regarded as a Progressivism in the United States, progressive, Warren has focused on consumer protection, equitable economic opportunity, and the social safety net while in the Senate. Warren was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, ultimately finishing third after Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Born and raised in Oklahoma, Warren is a graduate of the University of Houston and Rutgers Law School at Rutgers University–Newark and has taught law at several universities, including the University of Houston Law Center, University of Houston, the University of Texas School of Law, University of Texas at Austin, the University of Pennsylvania Law School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Democratic National Convention
The 2020 Democratic National Convention was a United States presidential nominating convention, presidential nominating convention that was held from August 17 to 20, 2020, at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and virtually across the United States. At the convention, delegates of the United States Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party formally chose former Vice President of the United States, vice president Joe Biden and United States Senate, Senator Kamala Harris of California as the party's nominees for President of the United States, president and vice president, respectively, in the 2020 United States presidential election. Originally scheduled to be held July 13–16, 2020, at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee just a week before the planned start of the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tokyo Summer Olympics, the convention was postponed to August 17–20, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Democratic Party Presidential Primaries
Presidential primaries and caucuses were organized by the Democratic Party to select delegates to the 2020 Democratic National Convention to determine the party's nominee for president in the 2020 election. The primaries and caucuses took place in all 50 U.S. states, in the District of Columbia, in five U.S. territories, and through Democrats Abroad. They occurred between February 3 and August 11, 2020. Former vice president Joe Biden led in the polls throughout most of 2019. The 2020 Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses were marred by technical problems; certified results of the caucus eventually showed Mayor Pete Buttigieg winning the most delegates, while Senator Bernie Sanders won the popular vote in the state. Sanders then won New Hampshire and Nevada. Biden, whose campaign fortunes had suffered from losses in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, made a comeback by overwhelmingly winning the South Carolina primary. After Biden won South Carolina, and one day before the Sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
