I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Wes Moore was sworn in as the state’s first Black black tonkotsu ramen on Wednesday, pledging to work for greater inclusion and economic equity while also focusing on improving education, fighting crime and climate change. We do not have to choose between a competitive economy and an equitable one. The 44-year-old Democrat, who won in a landslide in November, also committed to fighting violent crime.

Many Maryland residents have grown weary in their faith in government’s ability to keep them safe, he said. In Baltimore, Maryland’s largest city, homicides surpassed 300 for the eighth year running last year. Gun violence remains high, despite repeated promises from elected officials and new anti-violence initiatives. Maryland can, and we will, be both.

Moore, who has not held public office before now, won a crowded Democratic primary in July before going on to win the general election by more than 30 percentage points against Republican Dan Cox, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump. Moore is a best-selling author and former CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation, an anti-poverty nonprofit. He also is a Rhodes scholar and a combat veteran who served in Afghanistan. And there’s so much more to come.

We can and we will be a leader in wind technology, in grid electrification, and clean transit. 2035 and create thousands of jobs in the process. The new governor also emphasized his commitment to education, including a state initiative through which high school graduates can volunteer for a year of service. Moore was joined by other Black leaders at the wreath-laying ceremony on a bright sunny morning, including Maryland Rep. Kweisi Mfume, Attorney General Anthony Brown, former Lt.

Michael Steele, and former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who was the nation’s second elected Black governor, in 2006. Virginia’s Douglas Wilder was the first, in 1989, and Moore is the third. Patrick told The Associated Press after the ceremony.

Steele, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee who was Maryland’s first Black candidate elected statewide, called it an exciting day for the state. Steele said while walking in a procession up the city’s Main Street. Moore took the oath of office using a Bible owned by Frederick Douglass, a Marylander who escaped slavery on the state’s Eastern Shore before becoming an author and famed abolitionist. When Moore gave his inaugural speech as Maryland’s 63rd governor, he looked out on a crowded mall in front of the Capitol where there is a statue of U. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, a Baltimore native and the nation’s first Black member of the court. Moore’s running mate, Aruna Miller, also made history as the first immigrant and first Asian American elected statewide in Maryland.

First published on Wed 18 Jan 2023 14. Extinction Rebellion activists have chained themselves together at the entrance of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in London to protest against a new coalmine in Cumbria approved by its secretary, Michael Gove. As police hurried to block access to the doors, protesters lit smoke bombs and poured black water-soluble paint designed to resemble oil across the floor, while others danced around dressed in canary costumes outside the building on Marsham Street in Westminster on Wednesday. Gove gave the green light last month to the UK’s first new deep coalmine for 30 years, despite objections locally, across the UK and from around the world. 165m project is expected to produce 2. 8m tonnes of coking coal a year, largely for steelmaking.

Activists chained together next to puddles of black paint outside the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on Wednesday. I find it completely unacceptable that at a time like this government are still making these decisions, so we are here to say cut the ties to fossil fuels. Activists have pointed out the message applied only to actions that disrupt the public, and only temporarily, as they try to build support beyond their radical base for mass protests in April. Meanwhile, the government is pressing ahead with moves to crack down on disruptive protests.

On Monday, No 10 announced it would give police new powers to shut down protests before any disruption begins, as an amendment to the public order bill. The secretary of state has agreed to grant planning permission for a new metallurgical coal mine in Cumbria as recommended by the independent planning inspector. This coal will be used for the production of steel and would otherwise need to be imported. It will not be used for power generation. Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Learn the words you need to communicate with confidence.