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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.
The Maryland Citizens Redistricting Commission will hold its first meeting next Wednesday at 7 p.m. The redistricting commission is tasked with making recommendations on…
A multi-million dollar project to expand high-speed internet to rural Charles County formally broke ground Wednesday. The roughly $6 million project is a partnership…
Maryland will keep its eight seats in the House of Representatives in the next round of redistricting, Census Bureau officials announced Monday. Maryland joins…
As Other States Move to Restrict Voting, the Maryland General Assembly Passed Bills to Expand Access
After an unconventional 2020 election which saw unprecedented absentee ballot use, Maryland lawmakers instituted a slew of election reforms during the 2021 legislative session….
John B. King Jr. (D), the former U.S. secretary of Education under President Obama, announced his 2022 gubernatorial bid Tuesday. Education will be one…
Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s redistricting commission — tasked with making recommendations on congressional and legislative maps that he will submit to the General…
Several tenant relief efforts failed in the last hours of the 2021 legislative session Monday, drawing condemnation from fair housing advocates who say the…
A proposal to provide low-income tenants access to legal representation in eviction cases received final approval from the General Assembly Monday – but a…
With a dwindling number of days before the 2021 legislative session ends, pressure is growing on Maryland’s Senate to pass “historic civil rights legislation” that…
Maryland’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was among the best in the nation, according to a new report from University of California…