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Spiro Agnew

Transportation issues are rarely about getting from here to there. Usually they involve what land will be developed and who’s going to get rich….

History is a stern taskmaster. Back in the bad old 1960s, the State of Maryland spent $1 million on a study to determine the…

Today Maryland Matters offers a profile of Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) from the newest edition of The Almanac of American Politics, the…

The Affordable Care Act has improved the lives of millions of Americans, but access to health coverage remains uneven, two members of Maryland’s congressional…

Only one congressional Republican has publicly called for President Trump’s impeachment, enraging his colleagues and invoking the wrath of the president by offering the…

Here’s a scary possibility. Next year’s elections in Baltimore City are pregnant for a reprise of the 1974 campaign for state’s attorney. All of…

In the grammar of politics, the election of two-term Gov. Harry R. Hughes was a predicate. It evolved on conditions and “ifs.” If Blair…

Maryland State Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt will leave his post this summer. Davitt has held the position since 2010, bringing dozens of cases against…

The raspy sound you hear in the background is the ghostly voice of Spiro T. Agnew whispering in Gov. Larry Hogan’s ear Shakespearean warnings…

There’s a fundamental mean streak running through the Republican Party that Democrats lack. The GOP’s operating manual is simple: Whatever it takes. The pathology…