State Del. Stephanie M. Smith (D) was elected Friday to chair the Baltimore City House delegation following the resignation of former chairwoman Cheryl D….
Editor’s Note: As the year winds down, we’re re-running the 10 most-read pieces of the year in Maryland Matters. Here is #5, which first…
In a bid to make the inner workings of the Washington, D.C., area’s transit agency more open, a group of Maryland lawmakers is demanding…
Following setbacks in the 2019 legislative session, Maryland lawmakers went back to work this week to recraft legislation to provide greater transparency in the…
The former Maryland State Law Library will hold a ceremony later this month to celebrate its new name: the Maryland Thurgood Marshall State Law…
When state Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot (D) announced in 2013 that he wouldn’t be a candidate for governor the following year, it seemed like…
Maryland House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones has appointed another African American woman as her speaker pro tem. Del. Sheree Sample-Hughes (D-Lower Shore), who has…
It wasn’t an election year and the temperature was high, but the heartiest of Maryland politicos abidingly trekked to Crisfield on Wednesday for the…
Two months after a splintered House Democratic Caucus turned to Del. Adrienne A. Jones (D-Baltimore County) to become the next speaker, at least two…
The Democratic presidential debates are almost upon us. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Not because these are a bad lot of candidates or because…