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Elizabeth Shwe

Reporter

Elizabeth Shwe was a Report for America corps member at Maryland Matters through May 2022. She previously covered California state politics during an internship at The Sacramento Bee. She is a 2020 graduate of Princeton University with a degree in political science. At Princeton she was a producer for WPRB 103.3 FM News & Culture section, the station’s only long form podcast-type program. Shwe also wrote for The Daily Princetonian, and tutored with the Petey Greene Program, which offers free tutoring to incarcerated people.

Most Democratic gubernatorial candidates say they support accelerating Maryland’s transition away from fossil fuels.

The board charged with overseeing the implementation of a decade-long plan to reform the state’s education system announced that it is seeking applicants to…

Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot (D), a gubernatorial candidate, is calling for a special legislative session so the General Assembly could grant him authority to…

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Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) called on state Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot (D) to ease the annual gas tax increases mandated by legislation…

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The pilot program focuses on job training in Baltimore, where unemployment and underemployment rates are the highest in the state.

Brown’s polling firm says the congressman ‘remains the clear front-runner to be the Democratic nominee.’

More than a hundred candidates for the Maryland General Assembly signed a resolution to move Maryland to 100% carbon-free electricity by 2035 and remove…

If the advocates succeed in putting the question on the ballot in November, Maryland voters can choose to essentially veto the legislation.

The change comes as Hogan wraps up his second term as governor next January and an increasing number of high-ranking administration officials begin to move on.

As women candidates have made progress nationally and in Maryland over recent election cycles, a training program for Democratic women is seeing an increase…