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Joanne Benson

Top leaders in the Maryland Senate vowed Thursday to pass a paid family leave program this legislative session. Sen. President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City)…

With 751 fewer child care providers in Maryland 18 months after the COVID-19 pandemic forced many to close or scale back, providers say they…

For the second time in as many months, the Prince George’s Democratic Central Committee chose one of their own — Faye Martin Howell —…

Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D) and several other elected officials from Prince George’s County endorsed Del. Brooke E. Lierman (D-Baltimore City) for comptroller on…

A measure intended to hold the Maryland Department of Transportation to its “promises” on a controversial highway project appears headed for defeat for the…

A bid to expand bargaining rights to all employees at Maryland’s 16 community colleges advanced for the second time in the last eight years….

Backers of a measure that would hold Maryland transportation officials to the promises they have made on a controversial highway project sought to generate…

Members of Maryland’s Legislative Black Caucus say the state police department has a big problem with racial discrimination that has worsened over the decades,…

He’s had a fish named after him. A mountain peak in Antigua and Barbuda. A food court in Ireland. And lots of elementary schools…

He was remembered by his successor as “a country boy from Clinton who became a kingmaker in Annapolis.”   A softie and a hard-ass, everyone…