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That Amazon is looking at White Flint for HQ2 is a testament to Montgomery County’s schools, workforce, housing, transportation network, and amenities: today’s and…
In 2015, Del. Cheryl D. Glenn introduced legislation to legalize marijuana for medicinal use in Maryland and established the Medical Cannabis Commission to regulate…
Last year, voters in Montgomery County approved the introduction of public financing of campaigns. On the surface, public financing is a good concept, helping to…
Baltimore County is really three counties co-existing as one – the eastside county which is made up of Democrats who vote Republican, the center…
Montgomery County and Baltimore City are symbiotic siblings. One is rich, the other poor. One has a white plurality, the other is mostly black….
Six years ago, while traveling around the state during my campaign for Maryland attorney general, Judge Katie O’Malley, the former first lady, introduced me…
On April 28, the Pride Foundation of Maryland, a statewide LGBT advocacy group, and Baltimore’s GLCCB, an organization serving the LGBT community in Central…
Autobiography is risky business as there’s usually an unwritten backstory chasing the book. It could be a disturbing fragment of a life, an amusing…
For the past three years, a tectonic shift has been underway in how transportation policy and capital investment decisions are made in Maryland under…
Every political season, at about this point, unaffiliated, or independent, voters wake up and discover they can’t vote in Maryland primary elections. These are…