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Talk about stepping all over your message. On a day when Benjamin T. Jealous’ advisers outlined to reporters a plausible path to victory over…
We are writing in response to a recent Maryland Matters article regarding the recent Democratic Party meeting where Baltimore Women United (BWU) spoke about…
When I was first elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2007, there were only a few hundred people working in the state’s…
Democracy can be messy, but Maryland’s method of selecting circuit court judges is unnecessarily so. The process also is largely dysfunctional. The controversial, albeit…
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By all accounts, Saturday’s daylong “Annapolis Rising” music festival, a fundraiser for the victims of the Capital Gazette shooting and first responders, was a…
Who would’ve thought a simple questionnaire could become a campaign flashpoint? But this one was not an ordinary fill-in-the-blanks bio that shuffles past candidates…
One month after the Maryland primary, Montgomery County Councilman Marc B. Elrich (D) was finally able to celebrate his victory in the Democratic primary…
Introducing a new and occasional feature in Maryland Matters. Maryland has excellent aggregators of state news outlets. But it’s sometimes easy to miss good and…
God is dead. Well, almost. We know that God is on life support because recent polls say so. He, She or it has been…