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With failure-to-pay-rent cases set to resume next week, housing advocates and lawyers are urging Marylanders who face eviction to fight for their housing in…
Although Maryland is among the top 10 states for residents responding to the U.S Census, a bipartisan group of the state’ political leaders believe…
Maryland’s local boards of elections now have enough election judges to staff Election Day voting centers, but state officials say the search for new…
With the first day of school less than a week away, top state officials are pressuring all local school systems to reopen for at…
Maryland lawmakers said they will continue pressuring U.S. Postal Service management to make sure mail delivery is not slowed before and after the Nov….
Housing advocates in Baltimore were taken aback by the sudden dismissal of the city’s housing commissioner last week — and some say the shakeup…
After a summer of national reckoning on racial injustice, the University System of Maryland is taking proactive steps to examine structural racism that may…
When the public learned that Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s (R) former chief of staff, Roy McGrath, received a six-figure payment from his previous…
Howard County is hiring a diversity, equity and inclusion manager to bridge racial disparities that officials say still exist in the county. County Executive…
During a time of national reckoning on race, environmental groups are demanding that Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) and his administration show a…