Robbyn Lewis
After backlash from Democratic lawmakers and advocates, Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee amended the state’s billion-dollar relief effort Thursday to include…
Following Maryland’s recent reckoning with socio-economic and criminal justice inequities in its communities of color, House Health and Government Operations Committee Vice-Chair Joseline Peña-Melnyk…
Following a year fraught with social unrest wrapped in a global pandemic, members of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland have their eyes focused…
Editor’s note: Between now and Jan. 3, we’re re-running 12 great articles that appeared in Maryland Matters in 2020, in chronological order. On Jan….
According to a report released by the Department of the Environment Monday, rates of lead poisoning in young children and babies in Maryland reached…
In the middle of the rain on Saturday morning, a group of volunteers and state lawmakers gathered in Southeast Baltimore to knock on doors…
A pair of bills aimed at protecting and strengthening financial assistance for hospital patients struggling with medical debt was heard in the House Government Operations Committee Friday.
One year after major controversy enveloped legislation to create a private police force at Johns Hopkins University, a late-filed measure in the House of…
Former state Sen. Shirley Nathan-Pulliam (D-Baltimore County) returned to Annapolis Tuesday to lobby her ex-colleagues to pass public health legislation that she began to…
In the age of so-called anti-vaxers, legislation in Annapolis may allow a small number of Maryland minors to receive immunizations without consent from their…