by David Marks | Jan 13, 2021 | Carney, Cub Hill, Fullerton, Perry Hall, school overcrowding, Towson, Towson High School
As the 2021 session of the Maryland General Assembly opens, the top priority for our state legislators should be to secure the funding needed to advance new schools in Baltimore County. This will be the third consecutive session where such funding stalled. In 2019,...
by David Marks | Sep 11, 2018 | Bosley Avenue, Goucher College, Herring Run, Towson, Towson High School, Towson University
Over the next few weeks, I will be sharing the progress we have made in different areas of the district –and the challenges ahead for each. Towson is the westernmost region—a center for law, government, medicine, and higher education. In 2010, vast tracts of land...
by David Marks | Dec 30, 2017 | Aigburth Manor, Herring Run, Knollwood-Donnybrook, Towson High School, Wiltondale
This month, the Chesapeake Bay Trust announced it was awarding more than $115,000 to the Knollwood Association to develop improvements to the watershed in eastern Towson. This is terrific news. It is an outgrowth of the task force that our office established to look...
by David Marks | Aug 22, 2017 | Chapel Hill, Dumbarton Middle, Kingsville, Oakleigh, Pleasant Plains, school overcrowding, Towson, Towson High School
When I was first elected to the Baltimore County Council in 2010, more than a dozen public schools that serve our district lacked air conditioning. This fall, that number has dropped to one—Dumbarton Middle School, which will reopen next September after a $28 million...
by David Marks | May 29, 2017 | Herring Run, Idlewylde, Knollwood-Donnybrook, Neighborhood Commons, Overbrook, Towson High School, Wiltondale
Last week, I announced the creation of a task force to recommend improvements to the Herring Run green space in eastern Towson. The task force will be headed by David Riley, president of the Knollwood Association, and include representatives from neighborhoods closest...
