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In the past few days, resumes have been arriving in the offices of Maryland state lawmakers, introducing them to one Nancy K. Kopp. You’d…

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….

The raspy sound you hear in the background is the ghostly voice of Spiro T. Agnew whispering in Gov. Larry Hogan’s ear Shakespearean warnings…

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…

I’ll take unlikeliest political pairings for $800, Alex. The answer is: This political scion and former Republican governor of Florida and this former Democratic…

Like father, unlike daughter. Terry Lierman, as Maryland Democratic Party chairman, invested years rebuilding the party. His daughter has proposed a plan that would…

Any resemblance between the Maryland political world and a hospital ward is purely coincidental. That sounds flip; it isn’t meant to be. But it…

Prince George’s County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D), dressed in a crisp dark suit, sat down at the conference table in the Annapolis office…

In recent weeks, two reports have been released about the retail energy supplier industry in Maryland. These reports contain a number of inaccuracies and…

One by one, and two by two, they come to Annapolis, in every size, shape, age, color, gender and manner of dress, with Democrats…