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Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera of the Maryland Court of Appeals delivered the quadrennial State of the Judiciary address earlier this month. She described…
Thousands of Maryland residents work in the state’s growing solar and wind industries. With Gov. Larry Hogan’s leadership, the Old Line State can snowball…
Many questions arise from the death of 19-year-old Anton Black at the hands of officers of the Greensboro Police Department on Maryland’s Eastern Shore….
We fear what we do not understand. Del. Brooke Lierman has introduced HB 26 in the state legislature allowing Baltimore City to change the…
When did we stop becoming Americans first? I came to the United States as a teenager with a suitcase in hand in search of…
The fight for women’s rights has been center stage thanks to more women running for office and movements such as #MeToo and Time’s Up….
In his Jan. 14 column, Frank DeFilippo spends quite a bit of time discussing my father’s legacy in building up the Democratic Party in…
In recent weeks, two reports have been released about the retail energy supplier industry in Maryland. These reports contain a number of inaccuracies and…
Partisan redistricting was a hot topic across the country last year. But I have fought against partisan gerrymandering since 1970, when I first learned…
What’s going on? Is the new school funding done? Is it going forward? Or, in fact, has support for our school children been delayed,…