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Bruce DePuyt is a contributor to Maryland Matters, where he was a full-time reporter until December 2022. Previously, DePuyt spent nearly three decades on local television, including 14 years as producer and host of “NewsTalk” on NewsChannel 8 in the Washington, D.C., region. He was a reporter and anchor on “News 21” in Montgomery, where he also served as producer and host of “21 This Week.” He then became a reporter and anchor at NBC affiliate WVIR in Charlottesville, Va. He appears occasionally on WTOP (103.5 FM), WAMU (88.5 FM) and MPT.
Maryland lawmakers shrugged off dire warnings from Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan on Thursday, voting to override the Republican executive’s veto of a controversial school…
The existence of a father-daughter legislative duo in the halls of the Maryland legislature was a quaint novelty until about 2 p.m. Wednesday. All…
Editor’s note: This story has been updated. The original version did not report that existing state law bars legislators convicted of a felony from…
By Bruce DePuyt Maryland Treasurer Nancy K. Kopp, the long-serving but frequently overlooked member of the state Board of Public Works, on Wednesday faulted…
Few issues expose traditional fault lines in Maryland politics — rural vs. suburban, Republican vs. Democrat — like funding for mass transit. For many…
Senate backers of a sharply contested measure to change Maryland’s school construction funding process thwarted a brief Republican filibuster on Thursday, approving the measure…
Few issues expose traditional fault lines in Maryland politics — rural vs. suburban, Republican vs. Democrat — like funding for mass transit. For many…
The Supreme Court was asked on Wednesday to resolve an age-old problem — partisan gerrymandering — using a novel legal strategy offered by a…
By Bruce DePuyt Senate backers of a sharply contested measure to change Maryland’s school construction funding process thwarted a brief Republican filibuster on Thursday,…
The practice of naming things after politicians who continue to serve in office is well established in Annapolis, but not everyone thinks it’s such…