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Maryland Matters welcomes guest commentary submissions at [email protected]. We suggest a 750-word limit and reserve the right to edit or reject submissions. We do not accept columns that are endorsements of candidates or submissions from political candidates. Views of writers are their own.

AI’s threat to political discourse is real.

Not a single cent of the new charge forced on shoppers is required to address climate change, support recycling, or promote sustainability, former lawmakers write.

To protect workers — and make Prince George’s County’s public-private school construction push more meaningful — county leaders should require project labor agreements, a union leader writes.

Monopoly

‘Inherited mistake’ in traffic predictions for highway expansion project should be fixed, advocate writes.

There are many possible alternatives to the broken private ownership model that is on display in the Orioles negotiations with the Maryland Stadium Authority.

The Maryland Department of Transportation may be considering changes, but that won’t alter the project’s fundamental problems.

Maryland is facing an increasingly dire shortage of direct care workers.

In Md., where 78% of forests have reached maturity, elected officials have a choice: cave in to the forest product and biomass energy industry’s massive lobbying efforts, or iincentivize the preservation of forests.

Air conditioning has become an equity issue: People of color and the poor are usually the ones without it.

Consumers, the author writes, aspire to be liberated from an imposed energy plan and desire the freedom to embrace a tailored approach befitting their lifestyles.