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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…
By Josh Kurtz Back in March 2001, when Terry Lierman announced that he wouldn’t take a second crack at U.S. Rep. Connie Morella (R)…
Although I was disappointed after reading the first few lines of Josh’s column about the next Democratic Party chair, I was seeing red by the…
By Delegate Luke Clippinger Last summer I was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. I had been feeling tired all the time for…