Commentary

Let’s dispense with the elephant in the room. The Texas energy emergency last month was not a failure of the retail competitive energy market.The...

“Early in my graduate school experience I went through incredible financial difficulty, a brief period of homelessness escaping domestic violence, and limited food access....

As Elizabeth Shwe reported last week in Maryland Matters, an emergency bill introduced by Senate President Bill Ferguson requires a consultant study of the...

“Even after years of faithful service to our community colleges, we still don’t have a meaningful voice at work,” says Richard Otten, adjunct professor...

Understandably, the news that author and activist Wes Moore is taking a serious look at running for governor created lots of buzz last week. Novice...

House Bill 655, which deals with voting districts in county elections, is not a panacea for Charles County. The bill may have the unintended...

Jada* has survived sexual assault many times, though she’s only ever been treated as a criminal.Since childhood, her struggles with abuse and homelessness led...

In politics, pork is power.That’s why Democrats want to bring back pork in the form of “earmarks” after they were banned 11 years ago...

Proposed legislation once again before committees in the Maryland House and Senate is the latest attempt by out-of-state trial lawyers to change the law...

After almost a year in pandemic lockdown, some notes on the privileged path:If you watch a couple episodes of "Schitt’s Creek" and don’t like...