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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 parking lots surrounding Montgomery County Metro stations may one day turn into high rise apartments as local officials look to incentivize development in…
The Maryland State Board of Elections submitted final recommendations on the state’s November elections to Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) late last week,…
Advocates are calling on Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) to “cancel the rent” as thousands of Marylanders face eviction later this month. More…
The Maryland State Board of Elections won’t recommend an entirely in-person general election in November, but is divided along party lines on whether to…
As the July 25 end of the federal moratorium on evictions looms, local government officials in Maryland say they can’t stop a housing crisis…
Advocates for disability rights and other groups lobbied for a mail-in ballot for November’s election Friday morning, one day after Maryland Senate Republicans announced…
Some Talbot County officials want to construct a “unity statue” to memorialize both sides from the Civil War amidst calls to remove a century-old…
As the end of the federal moratorium on residential evictions looms, local government officials and advocates for the poor worry that thousands of Marylanders…
Two Maryland Senate leaders say the state should hold a “hybrid mail-in preferred” election in November to avoid the long lines and late ballots…
If there is one easy takeaway from the June 2 Democratic primary in Baltimore, it’s that voters wanted change. Some incumbents were ousted and…