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		<title>State Sen. Steve Hershey Condemns “White Nationalist” Terrorism After El Paso Murders; Shows GOP Guts in Callout but Trumpers Shoot Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2019 23:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS ANALYSIS The national shock and horror of last weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH brought out the usual “thoughts and prayers” for the victims from a bipartisan roster of public officials, but that wasn’t good enough for State Sen. Steve Hershey (R-36), who represents Cecil County and three other Eastern Shore counties in Annapolis. Virtually alone among Maryland Republicans, Hershey has taken to Twitter for several days to call out racists and suggest that President Trump didn’t go far enough to address the root causes of the terrorism that targeted Hispanics in Texas. “I’m done with the thoughts and prayers. I’m done with the phony outrage from scores of politicians. I’m angry. I’m horrified. I’m devastated. Our American culture is suffering. Let’s call this what it is: A white nationalist committed an act of terrorism.” Hershey wrote on Sunday 8/4/2019. Later, after President Trump and others insisted that mental illness was the cause, Hershey observed, “How many more times are we going to use “mental illness” as the standard response to a mass shooting? That crutch has been worn thin. Here’s what happened in El Paso: a guy drove hundreds of miles and committed an [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov. Hogan Proposes $4million Drug Abuse Program, New Treatment Clinic Opens in Cecil County; Trump Health Plan Changes Could Limit Coverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan proposed an anti-drug initiative Tuesday 1/24/2017 that would boost spending by $4 million on treatment and monitoring programs, along with tougher laws aimed at drug traffickers and over-prescribing of opioids by physicians. At the same time, a new out-patient detox and treatment center held a ribbon-cutting ceremony in conjunction with Union Hospital in Elkton. But looming over the state and local anti-drug abuse efforts are the uncertainties over the fate of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) and its mandates to provide health insurance coverage for drug addiction treatment services, as the new President Donald Trump moves forward with his plan to repeal “Obamacare” and replace it with an as yet unknown alternative. Some new drug treatment programs, such as the profit-making Recovery Centers of America facility in Earleville in southern Cecil County, included as a key part of their business plan the availability of drug treatment coverage under mandates of the Affordable Care Act for insurance companies. Without such assurances, the fiscal viability of some local treatment programs could be uncertain. In addition, a key feature of the Affordable Care Act was its expansion of Medicaid to bring health coverage to a larger number of people, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lt. Gov. Rutherford Listens to Cecil County, Shore Officials, Parents on Heroin Crisis; Task Force to Recommend Action Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The heroin and drug abuse crisis plaguing Cecil County and Maryland will require money, commitment by state and local governments and involvement of medical experts and families affected by drug abuse, local officials and area residents told a new state task force in Elkton on Tuesday. Cecil County Executive Tari Moore claimed credit for reducing drug overdose deaths in the county in 2014, but in fact state statistics on the total number of drug-related deaths are not yet available and for much of last year Cecil County was on track for a record number of drug overdose deaths. Cecil County had the dubious distinction on 3/17/15 of being the first stop on a planned tour around the state by the Heroin and Opioid Emergency Task Force convened by new Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and chaired by Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford. (In 2011, Cecil County had the highest drug overdose death rate, on a per capita population-adjusted basis, in the state—even higher than the city of Baltimore.) “This is a problem that does not have an easy, or overnight, solution,” Rutherford said in Elkton. He said the task force would look for a “holistic approach to fight this public health emergency.” [&#8230;]]]></description>
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