Luke Broadwater

For weeks, Maryland leaders have been touting a bipartisan deal that will allow the state’s residents to pay lower premiums to buy health insurance — the first such rate reductions in years. But what state officials didn’t highlight is that as premiums are going down, deductibles are going up.

Despite polls gubernatorial nominee Ben Jealous trailing Republican Gov. Larry Hogan by double digits, Maryland Democrats say a surge in absentee ballot requests shows a “blue wave” will wash over the state on Election Day in November.

In poll after poll, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has led by an average of 18 percentage points over his Democratic challenger, Ben Jealous. That's in Maryland, where Hillary Clinton easily defeated Donald Trump by nearly 30 points in 2016 and Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-to-1.

A city panel considering candidates for Baltimore’s school board violated the state’s Open Meetings Act by not informing the public of its November 2017 meetings, a state board has ruled.

With less than a month to go until Election Day, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan continues to hold a commanding lead as he seeks a second term in charge of Maryland's state government.

A video from Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s campaign mocks several instances in which his Democratic challenger Ben Jealous incorrectly said he was running for offices other than Maryland governor — including an instance in which Jealous said he was running for governor of Virginia.

The Republican Governors Association continues a multi-million-dollar campaign against the Democratic nominee for governor of Maryland, Ben Jealous. Its latest ad brings the RGA to around $3.2 million in spending to attack Jealous on voters' screens. GOP Gov. Larry Hogan is seeking re-election.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan denies that he would ever endorse fellow Republican John Grasso, an Anne Arundel County Councilman running for state senate who made headlines this week for posting anti-Muslim material on his Facebook page. Yet Hogan appears on a Grasso campaign flyer endorsing him.

Last week, Hogan joined three other Republican governors who called on the U.S. Senate to delay a confirmation vote on Kavanaugh until there’s an independent investigation.

Republican Rep. Andy Harris says his wrist was bruised during a protest at his Capitol Hill office that shows the "problem with political discourse today." U.S. Capitol Police arrested two protesters from Maryland Marijuana Justice on charges of using marijuana in a prohibited public space.

Gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous has pledged to deliver an all-Democratic congressional delegation if he’s elected. And Jealous is warning his fellow Democrats that if Republican Gov. Larry Hogan wins re-election, Hogan would boost the number of GOP members of Congress to split the delegation.

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan leads Democratic challenger Ben Jealous by 15 percentage points with six weeks left to go in the race, according to a new poll.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is among four Republican governors calling on the U.S. Senate to delay a confirmation vote on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh until there’s an independent investigation of whether he committed one or more sexual assaults while in high school.

Baltimore City Council Public Safety Committee Chairman Brandon Scott has agreed to hold a hearing about whether the city should authorize a private company to fly a surveillance plane to film criminal activity. Persistent Surveillance Systems has been lobbying to return to the city's skies.

Once again, most of Baltimore’s highest paid employees are police officers. Surging police overtime expenses in fiscal year 2018 meant that 40 of the 50 highest-paid city employees work for the police department — including seven of the top 10.

Eleven state delegates from Montgomery County are calling on county police and State's Attorney John McCarthy to investigate allegations that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh committed sexual assaults in the 1980s while a high school student at Georgetown Prep in North Bethesda.

The FBI released Monday crime data that show Baltimore has the nation’s highest homicide rate among big cities. There were 342 homicides last year in the city. That's 56 per 100,000 people who live in Baltimore. The FBI says that's the highest rate of any U.S. city with more than 500,000 people.

During an hour-long debate Monday at Maryland Public Television, Democrat Ben Jealous portrayed Maryland as failing under Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s leadership. The schools? Sliding backward. The economy? Stagnant. Crime? On the rise. Hogan’s response: “It’s like you’re living in a dream world."

Michael Dresser talks about a few of the points made during the debate. The debate recorded Monday at Maryland Public Television will be streamed at 7 p.m. on baltimoresun.com.

Trailing in the polls and outspent by Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, Democratic candidate Ben Jealous enters the campaign's sole debate needing to make a favorable impression on voters.

The National Rifle Association has lowered Gov. Larry Hogan's ranking from A- to C, without explaining why.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand came to Baltimore to stump for Democratic candidate for governor Ben Jealous. Gillibrand joins other national Democratic figures, including former Vice President Joe Biden and senators Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in supporting Jealous.

The Maryland State Education Association and the Montgomery County Education Association want a judge to block Republican Gov. Larry Hogan from using an apple logo on his campaign materials. They say the symbol is a trademarked sign of candidates and issues that the unions support.

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan's campaign trolled the Maryland State Education Association after its representatives warned him that he was violating a trademark logo. Candidates supported by the union use its red apple on their campaign materials to demonstrate their education bona fides to voters.

With less than two months to go before Election Day, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has increased his already large lead over Democratic challenger Ben Jealous, according to a new poll from Goucher College. The survey conducted statewide last week reported Hogan lead Jealous by 22 percentage points.

Marylanders continue to give Republican Gov. Larry Hogan high marks for his management of the state, but they also support several key initiatives of his Democratic challenger, Ben Jealous, according to a new Goucher College poll.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous on Monday a released a new plan aimed at curbing prescription drug costs in Maryland. Called a “New Rx For Maryland,” it plan proposes creating a prescription drug affordability board to hold pharmaceutical companies accountable for rising costs

Democrat Ben Jealous released his first TV ad of the general election Sunday — beginning what he said will be an advertising campaign that will keep him on voters’ screens through the November election.

Democratic incumbent Brian Frosh and his Republican challenger, Craig Wolf, have agreed to two debates in Maryland's attorney general race. But deciding when and where they should be has become contentious.

Maryland's Howard County — a swing jurisdiction that’s had two Democrats and two Republicans as county executives since 1990 — often mirrors the sentiment of the state as a whole, and political observers are watching the Allan Kittleman-Calvin Ball race for signs of trends.

The Bread and Roses Party, a self-identified socialist group, is 227 certified signatures away from the 10,000 it needs to get onto the ballot in Maryland. The state Board of Elections rejected the party's request to list Jerome Segal as its U.S. Senate candidate, and he's suing the board.

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s re-election campaign this week launched a website featuring a Jeopardy-style game show that mocks Democratic challenger Ben Jealous as embracing reckless tax-and-spend policies.

A City Council bill that would repeal part of Baltimore’s fire code to allow new bike lanes and encourage development projects is awaiting Mayor Catherine Pugh’s signature.

On the campaign trail, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan often talks about how he wants lower taxes for retirees — including exempting 100 percent of retirement income from Maryland taxes.

Ben Jealous, Democratic candidate for Maryland governor, wants to reform the state’s criminal justice system by shrinking the prison population by 30 percent and cutting an estimated $660 million from the state’s budget.

The state of Maryland ended the last fiscal year with a surplus of more than $500 million, Comptroller Peter Franchot announced Thursday.

Here’s a by-the-numbers comparison of the campaign finance reports from Republican Gov. Larry Hogan and Democratic challenger Ben Jealous.

As a venture capitalist, Ben Jealous invested in education and social justice firms. Some were successes. At least one ran into trouble.

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday endorsed Democrat Ben Jealous for Maryland governor — the latest in a series of high-profile Democrats backing the former NAACP president in his underdog campaign against Republican Gov. Larry Hogan.

The Jealous campaign on Tuesday said the former NAACP president and his running Susan Turnbull had raised more than $1 million in about two months, but had only about $386,000 on hand — compared to more than $9.4 million for the Hogan campaign.

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan this week released a new digital ad encouraging voters this fall to approve a so-called “lockbox” to ensure casino revenue increases funding for public schools.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous wants to move ahead on the State Center redevelopment project. Scott Sloofman, a spokesman for Gov. Larry Hogan’s re-election campaign, said Jealous’ proposal is illegal.

The re-election campaign of Gov. Larry Hogan said Monday he has raised more than $2.5 million in about two months — allowing the governor and his running mate Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford to maintain a formidable warchest headed into the race’s final months.

With more than a murder a day in Baltimore thus far in August, Mayor Catherine Pugh and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous took to the streets of West Baltimore on Friday night.

More than 3.1 million gallons of sewage-tainted water overflowed into the Jones Falls stream Aug. 22 due to heavy rains, Baltimore officials said Friday.

Firefighters on Wednesday found the body of 29-year-old Jones in the basement of a vacant South Baltimore home.

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan and leading Maryland Democrats on Wednesday celebrated federal approval of a waiver they say will prevent the state’s Obamacare marketplace from collapse — and save health insurance coverage for about 250,000 state residents.

At the CASA multicultural center in Hyattsville, Democratic candidate for governor Ben Jealous pledged Wednesday to provide free community college to all the young, undocumented immigrants in Maryland.

For fiscal years 2016 and 2017, the city was supposed to inspect 65 percent of food service facilities — but only inspected 55.8 percent in 2016 and 40.2 percent in 2017, according to the audited presented to the Board of Estimates.

Tension between Baltimore's law department and the civilian panel that investigates police misconduct continue.