Editor-in-chief
Danielle Gaines covered government and politics for Maryland Matters for two years before moving into an editing position. Previously, she spent six years at The Frederick News-Post ― as the paper’s principal government and politics reporter for half that time, covering courts and legal affairs before that. She also reported for the now-defunct The Gazette of Politics and Business in Maryland and previously worked as a county government and education reporter at The Merced Sun-Star in California’s Central Valley.
A state employee who alleged she was demoted for a political post on Facebook will get her job duties back ― for two workdays…
More than 100,000 Marylanders ― 116,853, to be exact ― turned out to cast ballots on the final day of early voting Thursday. That…
The Maryland Democratic Senate Caucus Committee is out with a new mailer in the District 30 race, battleground territory in the Republican Party’s “Drive…
A Maryland General Assembly committee is digging into concerns about whether politics are playing a role in state hiring. The Joint Committee on Fair Practices…
With echoes of the past, the crowd at a rally for Benjamin T. Jealous in Bethesda on Tuesday night held out hope that late…
The Maryland State Education Association and Service Employees international Union have launched a $75,000 campaign targeting likely voters in Anne Arundel County in a…
Maryland’s seven largest counties will elect – or reelect – county executives next week, and five of those races are highly competitive. At least…
The Jealous for governor campaign, which has struggled to raise money, showed signs of life in the just-concluded fundraising period, raising more than $1.4…
The changing demographics of Frederick County are at the heart of the race to lead county government there. In the last two decades, the…
Tens of thousands of Marylanders shuffled through early voting centers Thursday at a rate far outpacing four years ago ― and a few voters…