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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.
Maryland’s new congressional districts are more compact than their immediate predecessors but are still significantly less compact than historic districts in the state, an analyst testified.
Marylanders have become increasingly concerned throughout the pandemic about the cost of both renting and buying a home, according to a new report by…
Almost six months after Talbot County Council members voted to remove the Confederate Talbot Boys statue, county officials announced Friday that the monument is…
Maryland’s Senate unanimously passed one of several measures meant to fund the state’s access to counsel program for low-income tenants facing evictions, Thursday. Although…
Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against the Baltimore County Council’s redistricting plan argued in a Thursday court filing that a new map for county…
The Baltimore County Council waited until the eleventh hour to submit a new redistricting plan to a federal judge Tuesday night — and the…
Lawmakers amended a proposed elections cost-sharing agreement to ban election officials from asking courts to push back the upcoming primary election beyond July 12…
The Maryland Senate quietly passed an amended version of Senate Bill 392, the Judicial Transparency Act of 2022, Monday evening. That bill is a…
A petition drive is on to expand the Baltimore County Council from seven members to eleven. Baltimore County’s Council has had just seven members…
Although courts were shut down due to the pandemic and limited federal and state protections were available to tenants facing eviction, new failure to pay rent evictions continue to be filed.