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Legislators consider rival bills, one backed by the Hogan administration, the other supported by an unusual array of liberal and conservative officials.

It’s been 12 long years, and local governments are still on a starvation budget for their own roads. This is the year to fix that.

A photo of pages of Maryland's election law

A House bill would allow local governments to expand public campaign finance programs to include more elected offices, including for boards of education.

Republicans on the Anne Arundel County Council voted down a charter amendment that, if approved by voters, would have set up a public campaign financing system.

A petition that sought to remove the head of the Prince George’s County Board of Education has been dismissed.

Winchester Hall in downtown Frederick

Although money isn’t everything in these elections, the candidates’ latest campaign finance reports, filed last week, offer some clues.

County law stipulates “whether an election is contested shall be determined on the first Tuesday in August.”

The Maryland Association of Counties installed new board members during its winter conference in Cambridge this week. Laura Price, a three-term Republican member of…

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball (D) appointed Gregory J. Der as chief of the county’s police department Monday. “The continued success of our Police…

As he agonized in recent weeks over whether to seek a third term in 2022, Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) told associates that…