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After weeks of withering criticism from County Council members over an ethics complaint, Montgomery County Chief Administrative Officer Andrew Kleine resigned late Tuesday. County…
The Republican nominee for Cecil County executive won her primary in June by a wide margin, but the incumbent she ousted contends she should…
A Confederate monument will remain in front of the Talbot County courthouse in Easton after County Council members voted down a resolution to remove…
Low-income voters are less likely to participate in national elections than voters with higher incomes – but a new report says voting rates are…
Members of the Legislative Black Caucus are rallying to the defense of Andrea Kane, the Queen Anne’s County school superintendent who is under fire…
State election officials want Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) to use Maryland’s 282 public high schools as voting centers on Election Day, eliminating…
With a pending lawsuit and a Republican congressman calling for a federal investigation looming over their shoulders, Montgomery County officials announced Friday afternoon that they…
Maryland’s lone Republican member of Congress is calling for the federal government to investigate Montgomery County’s decision to ban in-person learning at private and…
Refusing to back down from a dispute with Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) and private schools, Montgomery County’s top health official moved to…
Election officials from around Maryland urged the State Board of Elections to reduce the number of voting locations because they do not expect to…