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Bill Zorzi is a contributor to Maryland Matters and has served stints as a full-time reporter and contractor. Earlier he was a Baltimore Sun reporter and editor for nearly 20 years, focusing on government and politics. An Annapolis bureau veteran, he wrote a weekly column, “The Political Game” for the paper. Zorzi left newspapers for several years to write for television, including for the HBO series, “The Wire” and the HBO miniseries “Show Me a Hero,” which dealt with an explosive housing desegregation case in Yonkers, NY. He returned to reporting in 2018, when he joined Maryland Matters.
Maryland Democrats gave no quarter to Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. for his State of the State speech Wednesday, particularly candidates in attendance aiming…
In a new filing in U.S. District Court, attorneys for state Sen. Nathaniel T. Oaks paint an extraordinary picture of the persistence and scope…
A bipartisan commission established to assess financial protections for Marylanders recommended Friday that state officials step in and act on behalf of residents when…
The Maryland Comptroller’s Office released Thursday an eagerly awaited report on fallout from last month’s federal tax cut, an intricate best-guess effort to help…
The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has introduced emergency legislation pushing back the effective date of Maryland’s sick-leave legislation that was vetoed by…
Thirty years ago this month I first walked into the Maryland State House as a reporter, charged with keeping an eye on the legislative…
A federal judge ruled in favor of Maryland State Sen. Nathaniel T. Oaks (D) on Friday, granting a defense motion for two separate trials…
Gov. Larry Hogan announced Thursday that he would sign on to a nonpartisan friend-of-the-court brief filed in a gerrymandering case now before the U.S….
Maryland government needs to fill more than 2,600 positions in its executive branch agencies – nearly half of them in the Department of Public…
Republican senators are calling it “Breakfast-gate,” a minor flap over the release of Gov. Larry Hogan’s budget that has sent some Democratic lawmakers into…