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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.
With dust from “crossover day” still settling in the Maryland General Assembly, the Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs committee took up several House-approved…
On a day when the House of Delegates pushed through dozens of bills in a mad dash to pass legislation before the end of…
After a heated partisan debate, the House gave final approval Saturday to a measure that would permanently expand access to ballot drop-off boxes around…
A proposal that would let voters opt-in to automatically receive mail-in ballots in statewide elections passed out of the Maryland Senate Friday. The bill…
A proposal to guarantee low-income tenants the right to counsel against retaliatory evictions passed out of the Maryland House of Delegates Thursday after fierce…
Maryland lawmakers are looking to change the clean-energy classification of a controversial renewable energy source – but Republicans worry that doing so could drive…
The Maryland House of Delegates passed a proposal to give judges more leeway to temporarily halt evictions Tuesday – without a provision that would’ve…
Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) banned debt collectors from garnishing Marylanders’ latest round of federal stimulus checks Monday. Under Hogan’s latest order on…
Maryland’s state government is set to receive a multi-billion dollar boost as part of the latest federal stimulus package – and a broad coalition…
The recently passed $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan will mean billions in direct relief for Marylanders and local governments, an effort that lawmakers hope…