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Sen. Cory Booker met his girlfriend, actress and activist Rosario Dawson, at a fundraiser for Maryland's then-gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous, he during a CNN town hall meeting Wednesday.

By Lillian Reed

Mar 28, 2019

Amelia Chassé Alcivar, the communications director for Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, is leaving the administration to join the senior staff of the Republican Governors Association.

By Luke Broadwater

Feb 13, 2019

Ben Jealous, the former NAACP president who was the Democratic nominee for governor last year, said Tuesday that he is starting a Baltimore-based investment firm named 20X.

By Luke Broadwater

Feb 13, 2019

Backers of a bipartisan bill in the House of Delegates argue for the formation of a statewide commission to address the history — and repercussions — of lynching in Maryland.

By Jonathan M. Pitts

Feb 12, 2019

Former NAACP president Ben Jealous and presidential hopeful John Delaney, both Maryland Democrats, joined the chorus of people calling for Virginia’s governor to resign after a racist photo from his medical school yearbook emerged.

By Talia Richman

Feb 2, 2019

A full day of activities marks the second inauguration of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford.

By Pamela Wood

Jan 16, 2019

The progressive Democrat is reportedly also considering Atlanta for a possible presidential campaign headquarters, according to The New York Times.

By Lillian Reed

Dec 29, 2018

An editorial in The Baltimore Sun about why black candidates can't get elected statewide in Maryland stokes racial bias.

These were the top 10 biggest news stories from the past year.

By Sarah Meehan

Dec 20, 2018

UMBC undergrads launched an effort to uncover just exactly who the Hogan Democrats are on Election Day. Here's what they found.

While hauling in the most votes ever for a Maryland governor, Larry Hogan had a secret weapon by his side: A focus group of 110 women who dislike President Donald Trump.

By Luke Broadwater

Nov 21, 2018

Election night was a big night for Democrats and Democratic values in Maryland. While Larry Hogan held onto the Governor's Mansion, down ballot, the state experienced a massive blue wave.

Tuesday’s election results mean that in 2019 Democrats will hold the top job in seven of Maryland’s eight largest jurisdictions. Meanwhile, Republicans — still riding high from Hogan’s historic win over Democrat Ben Jealous — looked around the state to see their bench had been decimated.

By Luke Broadwater

Nov 9, 2018

More than 2.1 million Marylanders voted in this year's election, surpassing 2010’s midterm record of nearly 1.9 million.

By Luke Broadwater

Nov 7, 2018

Gov. Larry Hogan cruised to a second term Tuesday night, but failed to take others from his party along for the ride. Voters said they voted against most Republicans — other than Hogan — out of their disdain for President Donald Trump.

A slew of diverse candidates, representing different races, ethnicities and religions, makes history in elections across the country.

Democrats should look at the bright side of Tuesday's election results despite Ben Jealous loss.

Hogan and Jealous reveal a split in how to deal with election results.

Now that Republican Larry Hogan has bested Democratic challenger Ben Jealous to win a second term as governor of Maryland the blame game and airing of electoral grievances on the losing side can officially begin. But Mr. Jealous didn’t lose this race nearly as much as Mr. Hogan won it.

Here are five voter sentiments we learned from Tuesday’s midterm election in which Gov. Larry Hogan became the first Republican governor to win re-election in Maryland since the 1950s, despite widespread antipathy towards President Donald Trump.

By Christina Tkacik

Nov 7, 2018

Dundalk Democrat Johnny Olszewski Jr. will be Baltimore County's next county executive after besting Republican Al Redmer Jr. in Tuesday's election.

By Pamela Wood

Nov 6, 2018

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan appeared to win a second term Tuesday, lifted by Democrats who crossed party lines to vote for his centrist approach to governing despite their anger over President Donald Trump.

By Luke Broadwater

Nov 6, 2018

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s impressive win over challenger Ben Jealous Tuesday offers some strong insights into the use of media that directly challenge what was starting to feel like post-2016 conventional wisdom.

By David Zurawik

Nov 6, 2018

Other locales might have drawn more star power in recent days — from President Donald Trump jetting to 11 rallies in six days to Oprah seemingly taking up residence in Georgia — but Maryland voters descended on their polling places on Tuesday with a determined intensity of their own.

Carroll County voters went to the polls on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6. Here's a sampling of their thoughts on the local races, the Maryland gubernatorial race and President Donald Trump, who isn't on the ballot but looms large over this election.

Readers respond on why they voted in Maryland's election.

By Thalia Juarez

Nov 6, 2018

Gov. Larry Hogan's win in his race for re-election leaves lots of questions: How will he govern in a second term? And what do Democrats do now?

Steady voting has been reported throughout the day in Howard County. Polls close at 8 p.m.

Remembering Kevin Kamenetz on Election Day: "This was supposed to be his day," his widow says.

By Dan Rodricks

Nov 6, 2018

Trying to figure out if a blue wave is sweeping Maryland or if Gov. Hogan has a red tide of his own? Here's how to watch the results.

Gov. Larry Hogan's political television ads appeal to voters' emotions by unfairly portraying opponent Ben Jealous as fearful and un-American.

With thunderstorms in the forecast, political and nonpartisan operations alike are in overdrive to get hundreds of thousands of Marylanders voters to the polls on Election Day. And political campaigns for races large and small aren’t resting until they crash Tuesday night.

Here are The Sun's endorsements in Tuesday's midterm elections.

Maryland votes: Here's what to expect Tuesday on Election Day at your polling place. Republican Gov. Larry Hogan and Democrat Ben Jealous are at the top of their parties' tickets, along with races for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House, state attorney general and the General Assembly.

By Michael Dresser

Nov 5, 2018

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, Democratic challenger Ben Jealous and other candidates on Maryland ballots are engaging in a final blitz to persuade undecided voters and get their supporters to the polls. Hogan is rallying in Annapolis and Grasonville; Jealous in Wheaton and the Baltimore area.

Comedian Dave Chappelle was in Maryland to campaign for Ben Jealous, Democratic candidate for governor. First he had to eat and Friday he stopped by Wieland's Barbeque in Catonsville.

By Jessica Anderson

Nov 3, 2018

Here's how Gov. Larry Hogan and Democrat Ben Jealous answered The Sun's questions about the biggest issues facing the state — and the editorial board's take on each one.

Maryland’s eight-day early voting period wrapped up with a record number of voters casting ballots in person before Election Day. The election will determine whether GOP Gov. Larry Hogan or his Democratic challenger, Ben Jealous, will take an oath of office for a four-year term in January.

By Michael Dresser

Nov 2, 2018

The Sun's endorsement of Larry Hogan over Ben Jealous shows the paper is aligned with the interests of suburbanites, not city dwellers.

James Brady, the chairman of the University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents, resigned Thursday, overtaken by the whirlwind of controversy at the state’s flagship university that began with the June death of football player Jordan McNair.

Hogan is better than most Republicans but that's too low a bar for Maryland's next governor.

Since the national Republican Party and our governor are disinclined to rein in drug prices, Marylanders hoping for relief with the bills they pay at the pharmacy, should take a closer look at Democrat Ben Jealous’ health care strategy.

Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday morning that he was “shocked” and “outraged” by the Maryland Board of Regents’ decision to reinstate football coach DJ Durkin and called school President Wallace Loh’s decision to defy the board and fire the coach a “big step” forward.

By Luke Broadwater

Nov 1, 2018

University of Maryland President Wallace Loh fired football coach DJ Durkin a day after the University System of Maryland Board of Regents reinstated him. Loh said he took the action after meeting with the Student Government Association, department chairs and other campus leadership.

Reaction to D.J. Durkin being fired Wednesday as Maryland football coach.

By Christina Tkacik

Oct 31, 2018

James Brady, whom Gov. Larry Hogan appointed to head the University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents, threw a wrench into the final week of the gubernatorial campaign. He announced a decision to keep the University of Maryland's football coach and athletic director, despite a player's death.

By Luke Broadwater

Oct 31, 2018

On a day when the news was full of package bombs sent to kill prominent Democrats and President Trump spewed his daily vitriol like regurgitated Diet Coke, it would have been logical for me, a lifelong Democrat, to double down and vote the straight party ticket. Yet I didn't. Here's why.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders brought a jolt of energy to Democrat Ben Jealous’ struggling campaign to unseat Republican Gov. Larry Hogan in Maryland. Sanders told a raucous full house at an historic Bethesda theater that Jealous will be one of the greatest governors in U.S. history.

By Michael Dresser

Oct 30, 2018

A smart redevelopment of Park Heights and Pimlico that keeps the Preakness in Baltimore should be a priority for the next governor

By Dan Rodricks

Oct 27, 2018

Despite the gubernatorial race being centered on Republican Larry Hogan and Democrat Ben Jealous, there are more than two names on the ballot for the state’s highest office.