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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…

State Comptroller Peter Franchot (D) will announce Tuesday that he is creating a commission to take “a comprehensive, top-to-bottom look at Maryland’s beer industry,”…

Jaws in Annapolis are still dropped over Del. Charles Barkley’s interview late last week with the Naptown Pint blog over the controversial bill to…

The Maryland General Assembly session began in January with legislators being indicted. It’s ending in April with another legislator indicted. What have we learned…

As he ponders whether to run for governor in 2018, former NAACP President Ben Jealous has turned to a well-known state Democratic operative to…

As campaign season heats up, here are five intriguing young guys who have announced they are running for office around the state – or…

It’s often said that lightning doesn’t strike twice. But in the case of state Del. Barrie Ciliberti (R), it kind of did. Ciliberti might…

As the state Senate considers the nomination of Dennis Schrader to be secretary of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, an ongoing dispute…

By agreeing to ban hydraulic fracturing in Maryland, Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and the General Assembly aren’t just making significant state policy – they’re…