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Spiro Agnew

Spiro Agnew

Official portrait was removed to be enlarged after briefly hanging in the State House.

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.

Many political seasons ago, way back in 1966, members of Baltimore’s Mount Royal Democratic Club, a mainstay of the Second District’s Democratic politics, met…

For Ellen R. Sauerbrey, President Trump’s legal fight to remain president evokes vivid memories of her own legal challenge of the 1994 Maryland gubernatorial…

When the Republican Party fell apart in 1964 after the smashing defeat of Barry Goldwater, the leftovers recruited a master grass-roots organizer, Ray Bliss,…

Two political conventions took place in America – the tromp l’oeil on television and the social, economic and physical upheaval dragging the nation on…

Former Gov. Marvin Mandel had five words that he lived by: Don’t get mad, get even. His first wife, Barbara “Bootsie” Mandel, did exactly…

The state special prosecutor never was intended to be Maryland’s gangbuster. In fact, the office wasn’t supposed to exist at all. It was rejected…

Greed could kill Maryland’s citizen legislature. The low grumbles you hear in the background are the voices of legislators who believe that pay raises…

Maryland’s new chief corruption prosecutor has been sworn in. Charlton T. Howard III was appointed to the State Prosecutor position by Gov. Lawrence J….