This column appears in the November issue of The Business Monthly serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties. Ben Cardin hasn’t slowed down. Maryland’s senior U.S. senator turned 81 Oct. 5. Come Jan. 3, Cardin is retiring and will be out of elected public office for the...
U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin leaves public office in January after 58 years — 20 years in the Maryland House of Delegates, 20 years in U.S. House and 18 years in the U.S. Senate. On Sept. 12, Len Lazarick of Maryland Reporter had a 38-minute face-to-face interview with him in his Capitol Hill office. Here is a lightly edited version of that conversation.
COMPLAINT SAYS SUPER PAC BROKE RULES: A super PAC is violating campaign rules as it tries to help Republican Larry Hogan’s U.S. Senate candidacy, says a Montgomery County woman’s complaint to the Federal Election Commission. The problem, according to the complaint...
U.S. SENATE CANDIDATES FRAME ELECTION NARRATIVE WITH SNIPPY DEBATE: Former Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks (D) stuck relentlessly to their messages Thursday during what is likely to be the lone televised debate of the...
LONGSHOREMEN PUT STRIKE ON HOLD: Longshoremen are returning to work at the Port of Baltimore and other ports from Maine to Texas, just three days after walking out on a strike that threatened to cripple the economy if it went on for an extended period of time....
This is an updated version of a column that appears in the October issue of The Business Monthly, serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties. The presidential election this year may well be determined in places like the neighborhood where I grew up in Croydon,...
ALSOBROOKS LEADS HOGAN 51-40% IN POST POLL: Democrat Angela Alsobrooks has pulled clearly ahead in Maryland’s unusually competitive U.S. Senate race with a double-digit lead among likely voters, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll, in a contest...
BALLOT DROP BOXES ARE INSTALLED, HERE ARE THE DEADLINES: The Maryland State Board of Elections completed the installation Wednesday of 286 ballot drop boxes across the state for the general election. Marylanders can use any drop box to cast their mail-in ballots,...
FEDS SEEK $100 MILLION IN LAWSUIT AGAINST DALI OWNERS: The Justice Department said Wednesday it is suing the owners of the cargo ship that caused the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, seeking unspecified punitive damages and $100 million for the cost of...
REPUBLICANS PUSH MOORE FOR MORE STRINGENT ICE POLICY: A group of House Republicans is rallying for policy change via executive order after a poll found that the majority of Marylanders support law enforcement coordinating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
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