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Why did you implement policies that allowed the burgeoning film industry in Baltimore and around Maryland to dry up so that by my last semester of college, I was able to get out of work actors for my student film who had been on The Wire and in that D.C. Ridley Scott movie just because they needed to pad their resume and show they were 'still working'?

Back around 2007 or so the Baltimore Sun headlined an article about Maryland being the next Hollywood with the amount of films that were coming to town. Then overnight the industry dried up. Another realm of jobs lost to other cities/states or even overseas.

How will you help get them back?

Are you aware to just what extend welfare/snap/EBT abuses and fraud are going on as a daily standard around Baltimore and the rest of the state? I work in Pharmacy Retail. I have for years. I've worked in the heart of Baltimore City. I've worked in the suburbs and I have colleagues who reside in and work in areas such as Dundalk, Towson, and Aberdeen. And every single day we see people come and use EBT cards to buy junkfood, buy ludicrous amounts of candy and just-for-fun foods that my coworkers and I could not afford having jobs, while they pull out the cash on the EBT cards and buy lotto tickets and cigarettes. 60% of our patients are long-term oxy users and methodone uses who pay less for their prescriptions than 60-80 year old veterans with cancer and "decent" insurance. Members of my own family are chronic methodone users who have EBT cards and get more benefits than I can get holding a steady job.

We have "patients" who have said in conversation with one another that they had to drop their job at "the Walmart" because it was interfering with their state benefits. And I personally know people who live together, have kids together, but both have an EBT card (even though they are joining their income long-term) so they both can get separate benefits.

This is widespread and I assure you, is not a secret. It never has been.

Did you always intend for Dexter's character to shift so dramatically after having a family? What do you say for us readers who can't quite relate to that bit yet, being single and or childless?

How do you get that much volume in your hair!? I want that skill