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Howard County's newest district is also one of its more interesting state-level races.

Student school commissioner endorses Brown for governor

Public hearings are needed before mall plan is approved

Democrat Heather Mizeur's campaign for governor is dogged by the question, Can she win? She is banking on grass-roots support statewide to show that the answer is yes.

Sun erred in not endorsing Jaffe for governor

Maryland's next governor will need to make tackling agricultural pollution a top priority.

Given how frequent mass shootings have become, you'd think gun violence, not baseball, is the national pastime, David Horsey writes.

Baltimore officials want to hire their own assessors to determine the size of historic tax credits in response to errors blamed on the state that left some property owners with wildly inaccurate bills.

Doug Gansler calls himself a "fighter" for Marylanders on jobs, education and the environment. In his biggest fight, he says he's taking on the Democratic establishment as he seeks the Democratic nomination for governor.

Government officials involved in the multistate Chesapeake Bay cleanup pledged Monday to broaden and accelerate the long-running effort, including a vow to address the impacts of climate change on the ailing estuary.

Doug Gansler supporter criticizes his campaign ad but says she still backs him. "I hate this part of politics," Del. Kathleen Dumais said.

Among Democratic candidates for governor, Heather Mizeur has demonstrated most interest in issues affecting disabled Americans

Maryland's economy has grown almost without fail in the last quarter century, ticking up year after year. But 2013 was not among them.

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley was in New Hampshire on Friday to rub shoulders with influential Democrats in the early-voting state as he begins to test the waters for a presidential run in 2016.

The revelation that a former Catonsville doctor accused of an alleged sexual assault previously went to prison for rape has lit a fire under lawmakers and regulators who plan to ensure the state screens physicians it licenses, a measure that has failed and been ignored in recent years.

Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown will build on the O'Malley administration's successes with a new emphasis on economic development.

As military leaders grapple with rising reports of sexual assault in the ranks, Maryland Army National Guard Brig. Gen. Linda Singh is believed to by the highest-ranking officer in the armed forces to discuss her own experience of abuse publicly.

Gay pride event to include Rawlings-Blake, Mizeur.

Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown's final fundraising haul towers over competitors

A new mega outlet mall — planned for right next to the White Marsh Mall — is being slipped through Baltimore County's development process without any public consideration by the County Council of traffic, the surrounding retail market, the environment or dozens of other potential impacts on the community.

Standing outside his tent pitched on the sidewalk by a defunct downtown diner on Thursday, Jimmy Steward III wonders where he'll sleep after city officials force him to leave this morning.

As early voting got underway Thursday in the primary race for governor, the four Republicans competing for the GOP nomination jockeyed to present themselves as the most qualified to take on a Democrat in November.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Charles Lollar, an ordained preacher and former tea party activist, spreads a spirited message about rising above partisanship. He contends that he is the candidate best able to beat a Democrat in November.

That city's tab for putting up residents displaced by the collapse of East 26th Street in Charles Village now sits just shy of $100,000, city officials said Thursday, and will continue to grow even though the residents are now back in their homes.

Hogan to run ad on Baltimore broadcast

Early voting was off to a slow start in Harford County on Thursday, the first day voters could cast ballots in the primary election and the first time the county has had more than one early voting site. By midday, however, the turnout had begun to pick up.

In a compelling GOP field, businessman and former cabinet secretary Larry Hogan stands out as someone who can not only win but also bring real change to Annapolis.

Latest report shows state's lackluster GDP is not the fault of high taxes or regulations but reduced federal government spending

Primary election voting recommendations.

Democrat Douglas F. Gansler released a new policy proposal Thursday to give a combined $1,200 tax break to families who earn less than $100,000 per year. The attorney general announced his new ¿middle class tax cut¿ the same day early voting began in the in the June 24 primary.

Maryland has made it easier to vote, while so many other states have made it harder.

Baltimore officials on Wednesday approved a $3.4 million deal to build a luxury hotel on a Fells Point pier after chiding a developer for trying to include campaign contributions to local politicians as part of the project's costs.

Maryland voters can cast a ballot in the primary beginning Thursday as the state opens the early voting period with extended hours, days and polling sites.

Gansler attacks Mizeur over college record, lobbying

On Wednesday, 60 public housing residents and union workers stood outside the Housing Authority of Baltimore City to urge it to halt a plan to sell housing to private developers.