July 8th, 2014 | by Len Lazarick
A blind voter who had a “horrific” experience voting during the primary election has filed a new complaint against the state election board, adding to the list of grievances in a lawsuit initiated by the National Federation of the Blind in May
July 8th, 2014 | by Len Lazarick
The Society of Professional Journalists, the National Newspaper Association and 36 other journalism and open government groups sent a letter to President Obama Tuesday asking him to stop "politically driven suppression of news and information about federal agencies."
July 7th, 2014 | by Len Lazarick
Our post primary roundup of candidates for General Assembly shows only the winners of June 24 primary. It includes every candidate that will appear in the General Election for 47 Senate seats and 141 in the House, along with their endorsements, and their cash on hand before the primary. A handy list shows the 35 candidates who have no opponent in the fall -- 14 for Senate and 21 for the House. A separate list shows the 10 incumbents who lost reelection bids, and there is also a list of 46 incumbents who are retiring from the legislature or are running for other offices.
July 6th, 2014 | by Len Lazarick
The $77 million in budget cuts approved last week by the Maryland Board of Public Works mark the first recognition there's a price to be paid for placing election-year politics ahead of fiscal realities. It won't be the last spending pullback, either. Maryland has a serious, ongoing imbalance between its high spending habits and its lower than expected revenue receipts. Everyone knew this was coming
July 1st, 2014 | by Margaret Sessa-Hawkins
While much of the D.C. region has bounced back from the recession, certain segments of the population are benefitting from this recovery more than others, a new report. The report, “Bursting the Bubble” shows that mirroring a national trend, income inequality has been growing over the past few years in the D.C. Metro area, even during the economic recovery.
June 30th, 2014 | by Jeremy Bauer-Wolf
It was fear of a Tea Party Republican winning the race in District 4 that got Dan Rupli, an old Democratic war-horse, to accept his party’s pleas to get into the race. Now that Del. Michael Hough has beaten Sen. David Brinkley, the Senate minority leader, in conservative-minded District 4, Rupli and Hough will battle it out in the fall. Rupli, 71, practiced public interest law and formerly served as counsel to then-Gov. Parris Glendening
June 29th, 2014 | by Len Lazarick
Did Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown run such a flawless Rose Garden campaign that his victory in Maryland's June 24 Democratic gubernatorial primary was inevitable? Or did his chief rival, Attorney General Doug Gansler, lose the election with an ineffective campaign that badly missed the mark
June 27th, 2014 | by Len Lazarick
As hard as it was for some of them, the four Republicans who had run against each other for governor put on a show of unity Thursday night, with the three losers supporting winner Larry Hogan in an event organized by the state
June 25th, 2014 | by Len Lazarick
There was lots of handwringing about the low voter turnout in Tuesday's gubernatorial primary, and a lot of explanations offered. How about this? They didn't go to the polls because they didn't like what the candidates and the parties were selling.
June 25th, 2014 | by Len Lazarick
How long did it take for the first attack ad of the fall campaign for governor to surface? Seventeen hours after the polls closed Tuesday. How long did it take for Democrats to counterattack? Another four hours. And for the Republican candidate’s campaign to volley back? Four hours more
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SEIU union played attack role in June primary
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