By Len LazarickLen@MarylandReporter.com Although the general election is still two months away, the results of Tuesday’s primary will decide many of Maryland’s next set of leaders. Almost half the members of the Maryland Senate will be decided by the end of the...
Month: September 2010
State Roundup, September 10, 2010
LEOPOLD SUIT: Mike Hellgren of WJZ-TV reports that Anne Arundel County Exec John Leopold is calling the sexual harassment accusations against him dirty politics right before the election. Nicole Fuller of the Baltimore Sun outlines the details of the new accusations...
Easy filing for major party candidates makes for crowded primary ballots
Easy filing for major party candidates makes for crowded primary ballots By Megan Poinski Megan@MarylandReporter.com Maryland voters wondering why there are so many candidates running for so many offices, including some of the most prestigious, may not be surprised to...
State Roundup, September 9, 2010
LEOPOLD SUIT: The allegations of impropriety against Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold broadened as an expanded lawsuit portrayed him as a womanizing megalomaniac, reports Erin Cox of the Annapolis Capital. A draft of the complaint accuses Leopold of using...
Young attorney aims to roll through barriers as a judge
By Barbara Pash For MarylandReporter.com When Ivan Shutinya was 10, he had a revelation while watching the swearing-in ceremony of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on TV. “I noticed that there was an African-American justice and a female justice, but no...
Analysis: Underdog Murphy has lots of bite
Brian Murphy can’t win, can he?
The conventional wisdom is that there is no way the underfunded, underdog, never-been-elected-to-anything Republican candidate for governor can whip ex-Gov. Bob Ehrlich in the GOP primary. And if by some miracle he did, the common wisdom predicts the genial Murph would get creamed by Democrat Martin O’Malley.
State Roundup, September 8, 2010
CURRIE IN COURT: Annie Linskey reports for the Baltimore Sun that Sen. Ulysses Currie, indicted by a federal grand jury on corruption charges, is set to make his first court appearance at a hearing Sept. 17. Marta Mossberg writes in her column for the Frederick...
State Roundup, September 7, 2010
EARLY VOTING: Maryland's first try at early voting got off to a smooth start, reported The Sun's Raven Hill. The Washington Post's Michael Laris and Hamil Harris wrote that poll workers outnumbered voters in Landover and Silver Spring. Despite his disapproval of...
Jewish groups get most homeland security grants; few Muslim groups apply
By Barbara Pash For MarylandReporter.com Jewish groups in Maryland received over $1 million in federal grants to protect them from terrorism this year, while Baltimore-area Muslim organizations, which had gotten grants before, did not apply. The U.S. Department of...
Proctor still considers himself an educator first
By Megan Poinski Megan@MarylandReporter.com Despite his 20 years in the House of Delegates, Del. Jim Proctor thinks of himself as an educator. “I am an educator who happens to be in the Maryland House of Delegates,” Proctor said. “I had a full career as a teacher, a...
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