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When the legislature overrode the veto of the education reforms, they bolstered Maryland’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Baltimore Transit Equity Coalition is cheering budget language that may open the door for completion of the Red Line.

Voting rights

Democratic leaders, take note. Grass-roots activists who built the 2020 blue wave are on the verge of abandoning you.

After a year of living with COVID-19, it’s instructive to look at how state workers fared over the past year.

On Labor Day 2021, Sen. Cory McCray reflects on progress the legislature has made on behalf of workers.

For the People

By Daniel Golombek and Charlie Cooper The writers are, respectively, president of the Baltimore County Progressive Democrats Club; and president of Get Money Out-Maryland…

By Sen. William C. Smith Jr. The writer, a Democrat, represents Montgomery County District 20 in the Maryland Senate. He is chair of the…

Clean Energy

By Staci Hartwell and Eliseo Magos The writers are, respectively, the environment and climate justice chair for the NAACP Maryland State Conference and a…

Tobacco

By Ashish Parikh The writer is the chair of the Asian American Retailers Association of Maryland. The framework of the current $3.5 trillion federal…

By John L. Micek The writer is editor of the Pennsylvania Capital-Star, where a version of this column originally appeared. So what can the…