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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.
A Maryland Senate committee voted in favor of a bill to repeal the state’s Handgun Permit Review Board on Monday, but another committee will…
The Senate moved forward Friday on House Bill 1052, which would remove regulatory powers over alcohol and tobacco from the comptroller’s office. Widely viewed as…
Some Maryland senators want to force a conversation about an ambitious decade-long education funding effort. The Senate Budget and Taxation Committee voted unanimously Thursday…
The Fight for Fifteen is likely headed to a conference committee. The Senate gave preliminary approval Wednesday evening to Senate Bill 280, its version of…
The Maryland House of Delegates gave initial approval to a $46.7 billion budget bill on Wednesday that would increase state spending by about 4.2…
The Maryland Senate is poised to vote on a change to state retiree pharmacy benefits on Wednesday morning, with a bill that is more…
During a legislative session marked by a House of Delegates censure over a lawmaker’s use of a racial slur, legislators should make a statement…
A small band of progressive lawmakers took a small stand against a big tax break on the floor of the House of Delegates on…
The sea of red shirts stretched down the boulevard leading to Maryland’s State House, eventually packed in to stretch from the corner of the…
It wasn’t the easy budgeting year that lawmakers thought they might have early in the legislative session, but House appropriators approved a $46 billion…