The following column appears in the October issue of The Business Monthly serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties. After Democrat Vanessa Atterbeary won the June 23 primary for Howard County executive, it looked like she had a free ride to her December swearing in....
REDISTRICTING QUESTION CONFUSES VOTERS: A ballot question asking Maryland voters to approve a sweeping change to the state constitution on congressional redistricting may be too convoluted for most voters to understand. One in four voters in a new poll released by...
This column appears in the September issue of The Business Monthly serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties. 8:45 a.m. on a Saturday morning in the resort town of Ocean City. Not a fishing trip, not an early day at the beach or a time to sleep in after a late night...
Del. Lily Qi’s new memoir “Elected American: From Red China to Blue Maryland” is really two books in one. First, it is a recounting of growing up in Communist Shanghai and then, as an adult, the sometimes difficult adjustment to life and work in the U.S. Secondly, it...
A version of this column appears in the July issue of The Business Monthly serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties After 250 years, one historian found, that many of the empires of the past lasted about that long, generally starting small, expanding to great size...
This column appears in the July issue of The Business Monthly serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties. In a private Catholic chapel at Doughoregan Manor in Ellicott City lies the body of Charles Carroll of Carrolton who died in 1832 at age 95. He was the last...
PRIMARY VOTERS GUIDE: The Local News Network at the University of Maryland sent a questionnaire to all 235 General Assembly candidates running in this year's primaries to get their views. The results are compiled below. Candidates who do not face a competitive primary...
Breaking his long silence about whom he would like to succeed him, Howard County Executive Calvin Ball gave a rousing endorsement to former Del. Vanessa Atterbeary Wednesday night, while attacking her two opponents as champions of division and obstruction on the...
This column runs in the June issue of The Business Monthly serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties. “Signs don’t vote,” is an old saying in politics. The candidate with the most road signs doesn’t mean they have the most votes, but they sure help a candidate get...
Thousands of No King protesters on Saturday afternoon in Columbia’s Symphony Woods heard speeches and music before sign-waving along Little Patuxent Parkway in downtown Columbia. Here is an edited version of what Rep. Sarah Elfreth, a 37-year-old freshman...
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