Dear Fellow Marylanders, On this Thanksgiving weekend, we celebrate a quintessential American holiday. Traditions may vary from table to table, but the core construct of family and friends coming together to give thanks for the blessings in our lives. President George Washington set the first “Day of Publick Thanksgivin” in November 1789, which included rendering “our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed.” President Abraham Lincoln is credited with issuing the first proclamation declaring Thanksgiving a national holiday, writing in October 1863: “I do,...