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Bennett Leckrone was a Report for America corps member at Maryland Matters through May 2022. He is a December 2019 graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. Leckrone has interned at The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Columbus Dispatch, PennLive.com, The Dayton Daily News and The Troy Daily News.
Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot (D) grilled a state housing official over the state’s sluggish rent relief disbursement at a Board of Public Works meeting…
Talbot County Council members voted to move a Confederate statue from the county courthouse lawn in Easton at their Tuesday night meeting. The pressures…
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) endorsed Del. Brooke E. Lierman (D-Baltimore City) for comptroller Monday, saying she would ensure the office is “the financial advocate…
The Maryland Citizens Redistricting Commission kicked off its second round of public hearings Thursday night, and drew up their first complete draft congressional map….
After the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a Biden administration moratorium on evictions, lawmakers in New York convened a special session last week and extended…
Maryland could receive more than $500 million as part of a settlement with the three largest distributors of opioid medications and Johnson & Johnson,…
Time is running out to apply for the Maryland Homeowners’ Property Tax Credit Program and local leaders are urging Baltimore residents to apply by…
There were 534 reports of lasers being pointed at planes in Maryland between 2010 and 2020, according to federal data released last week. There…
Marylanders can now submit their own proposals for redistricting to the Maryland Citizens Redistricting Commission, state officials announced Thursday. The Maryland Department of Planning’s…
Maryland’s General Assembly will have the final say over the state’s next set of congressional and legislative maps, and legislative leaders’ bipartisan redistricting commission…