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Danielle Gaines worked for Maryland Matters from September 2018 to January 2024. She covered government and politics for Maryland Matters for two years before moving into an editing position, ultimately serving as editor-in-chief for nearly three years. 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.
With a trio of unusual veto letters, Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) vetoed nearly three dozen bills passed by the 2020 General Assembly,…
Protective films around bus drivers, temperature checks at schoolhouse doors, playgrounds marked with social distancing markers. Those are just a few examples of what…
Former state Sen. Nathaniel Oaks (D-Baltimore City) on Monday petitioned a federal judge for compassionate release from his 42-month prison sentence, citing the novel…
Former Congressman Kweisi Mfume will be sworn back into the U.S. House on Tuesday ― even as ballots are still being counted in his…
Maryland’s House Republicans are urging vetoes of an ambitious education reform plan ― and the tax bills that would fund it. The House Minority…
Maryland Congressman Anthony Brown (D) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are pushing legislation that would nationalize the medical supply chain during the COVID-19 pandemic….
Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) appointed Kathleen A. Birrane as the state’s insurance commissioner ― a position her father once held. Birrane replaces…
With Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) calling for universal COVID-19 testing at Maryland nursing homes this week, union workers say the state’s testing…
Maryland is likely to see another massive surge in weekly unemployment numbers on Thursday ― even as the state continues to field droves of…
Patients at Maryland nursing homes account for almost half of the state’s COVID-19 deaths since March, and about a fifth of the state’s more…