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Bryan Sears covers the governor and General Assembly, state politics and transportation for Maryland Matters. He has covered the Maryland State House for the last two decades at the Baltimore Sun Media Group, Patch.com and most recently, The Daily Record. Sears has won multiple state and national awards for police and crime reporting, local and state government coverage and investigative reporting that resulted in a guilty plea by a government official for stealing from his own campaign account. He’s a frequent radio and television contributor.
The 446th session of the Maryland General Assembly will gavel in at noon on Wednesday, with lawmakers ambitious to tackle an election-year agenda, while…
‘The state of Maryland is getting a software update.’
Panel says money for recruitment will need to be weighed against other state priorities.
Board approves conversion of contractual positions as well as compensation to a man wrongfully convicted of rape and sexual assault.
The threat comes on the same day that multiple other states received a threatening email claiming explosives were placed at state capitol buildings.
Doug J.J. Peters, an influential former state senator who was popular among Democrats and Republicans, died Saturday. He was 60. In a statement, the…
The project, still in the early planning stages, could be unveiled on the front lawn on or near where another statue once honored the author of a Supreme Court decision that declared slaves were property and not human beings.
A deal to keep the Baltimore Orioles in the team’s iconic Camden Yards was approved by state authorities Monday, just ahead of a looming…
Billions in collective operating and transportation budget deficits raise concerns about cuts, taxes.
Projections include continued declines in sales tax collections and structural budget deficits that increase at a faster rate than projected in September.