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A string of GOP heavyweights, including several presidential candidates, have campaigned in Maryland in recent months, despite the state's reputation as a Democratic stronghold. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is to visit this week.

Expect an influx of starchily-dressed and municipally-minded visitors this weekend, as more than 1,100 elected officials and staff members from around the country descend on Baltimore for the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Baltimore seeks bids to repair two CSX rail bridges.

Maryland Transportation Authority plan to dramatically increase tolls is burdensome and potentially destructive to the state's economy

Baltimore needs to cultivate its seven miles of waterfront from Canton to Fort McHenry

Raymond Burke offers a humorous take on what Sarah Palin might have had to say about the Battle of Baltimore

Sarah Palin's tour of the East Coast may or may not mean she's running for president, but she is certainly making the point that vigorous competition will lead to a stronger GOP candidate in 2012.

Maybe it didn't have the Atlantic at its doorstep, but Baltimore turned out to be an agreeable place to enjoy the outdoors for many city residents and visitors on a day when summer served notice that it would be taking over for the next several months.

Last month's horrific crash that threw a 70-year-old off the Bay Bridge and killed him underscores the fact that long bridges and tunnels are especially dangerous place for drivers to be on less than their best behavior.

Samuel Smith rivaled William Donald Schaefer's accomplishments in an earlier era

Monitoring the Patapsco River below Baltimore skews measurements of it overall water quality

Sen. Barbara Mikulski recalls fighting with William Donald Schaefer over a massive highway project, losing, then working with him toward a compromise.

National parks: National Geographic's new book is helpful, but there's room for debate

From Faidley's at Lexington Market to the Washington Monument, from Camden Yards to the Inner Harbor, a motorcade will ferry the body of William Donald Schaefer Monday afternoon on a two-hour farewell trip through the hometown that he loved and led.

On a soft spring evening at Harborplace and Camden Yards, William Donald Schaefer was remembered in a way that surely would have delighted him: The man who made it all possible.

Civil War sites in Maryland

Trading the county for the city, Debbie Phelps, the mother of Olympian Michael Phelps, is making a fresh start in a new Inner Harbor condo

A preview of the 2008 parade thrown to honor Olympians Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff following the Beijing games