Once considered ‘a retirement home,’ Davis sees treasurer’s office as a door to another position but vows he will voluntarily observe fundraising blackouts imposed on others for the 90-day legislative session.
After eight years, the official portraits of the former governor and his wife will take their place inside the State House and governor’s mansion.
Politicians and athletes often have a tough time letting go of yesterday. In a rare convergence of forced departures and voluntary resignations, the entire…
In the dim days of early 1963, still weeks before the Maryland General Assembly would defeat a proposed public accommodations law, and months before…
More than just a few years ago, the Board of Public works approved the publication of the Public Papers of Spiro T. Agnew as…
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…
Comptroller Peter Franchot, on a continuous loop of shameless self-promotion for governor, might suffer from the Louis L. Goldstein syndrome. Or curse. Goldstein, for…
History is a stern taskmaster. Back in the bad old 1960s, the State of Maryland spent $1 million on a study to determine the…
In the grammar of politics, the election of two-term Gov. Harry R. Hughes was a predicate. It evolved on conditions and “ifs.” If Blair…