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By Charlie Gerow In each of the special elections since Donald Trump became president, Democrats have touted their candidacies as a chance to show…
By Josh Kurtz I’ve been having a hard time separating Rushern Baker’s announcement this week that he is running for governor with the Democrats’…
By George Leventhal I hope all elected officials, and the public, will take a lesson from the tragic events following a sexual encounter at…
By John Olszewski Jr. Former Sun reporter Alec MacGillis’s recent article on Jared Kushner’s real estate empire in Baltimore County (published by ProPublica and…
By Richard J. Cross III Harry Truman famously said, “There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” I…
By Josh Kurtz Former state Del. Heather Mizeur (D) must regret that the 2014 election cycle — when she ran a scrappy, progressive, low-budget…
By Josh Kurtz It’s all over but the Monday morning quarterbacking — or perhaps more precisely, the Tuesday morning quarterbacking. The 90-day General Assembly…
By Chester “Chip” Davis Generic drugs have been and continue to be an amazing success story in our health care system. According to the…
Earlier this week, The Washington Post reported that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions claimed that the Maryland Trust Act, now pending in Annapolis, would…
By Pat Murray It should have been a spectacular moment of political theater: A popular Republican governor linking arms with a powerful Democratic lawmaker…