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Geraldine Valentino-Smith

I served in the Maryland State Senate for 28 years and remain interested in the activities of the Legislature. The coverage of the final…

Retribution came swiftly and publicly for a member of the House of Delegates Wednesday following a heated vote on a proposal to give the…

A senior member of the House of Delegates who resigned abruptly Friday faces a federal corruption charge for allegedly pocketing more than $22,000 in…

SNAP Maryland Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program benefits

Michael J. Wilson retched when he first heard the news this week. “This is a bad thing. This is a bad thing for poor…

At a recent Board of Public Works meeting, Comptroller Peter Franchot endorsed the idea of single-member districts for the House of Delegates and computer-generated…

Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s administration on Wednesday touted a 9.5 percent decrease in homelessness in Maryland in the last two years. But the…

As Maryland lawmakers work to increase funding for the state’s Temporary Cash Assistance (TCA) program, a recent study by the U.S. Center for Budget…

It wasn’t the easy budgeting year that lawmakers thought they might have early in the legislative session, but House appropriators approved a $46 billion…

Members of the Maryland House of Delegates sobbed, and stared up at the Tiffany glass ceiling, and buried their heads on their desks Thursday…

Lawmakers have put forward more than a dozen bills this year seeking millions of dollars – billions, in fact – for school construction funding….