heather r mizeur

• Opinion

Is 5G technology the new fracking?

We have grown accustomed to trusting the telecommunications industry to advance technology to meet the consumer demand for higher speeds and more innovation without asking any questions about the risks. However, the fifth generation of advancement demands our attention and our concern.

• Opinion

It's not whether Maryland will legalize marijuana but when. How matters, too.

With building public support and growing acceptance in the legislature, marijuana legalization is likely coming. But putting it on the ballot here is a bad idea.

• Opinion

Roughly Speaking podcast: Hogan's prospective challengers; Heather Mizeur's new project (episode 318)

Talking Maryland politics with Sun State House bureau chief Erin Cox and former gubernatorial candidate Heather Mizeur.

By Dan Rodricks

Nov 2, 2017

• Politics

Former gubernatorial candidate Heather Mizeur launches group to bridge political divisions

Heather Mizeur’s “MizMaryland: Soul Force Politics” nonprofit is partly a philosophical movement, partly advocacy training for people who want to work on social justice issues and don’t know how. 

By Erin Cox

Oct 11, 2017

• News

Few women hold top elected offices in Maryland

Nearly a century after women obtained the right to vote, relatively few women hold top offices in Maryland, a state that is 52 percent female.

By Catherine Rentz

Aug 5, 2017

• Politics

Chris Van Hollen calls for deescalation of Dakota Access Pipeline dispute

Sen.-elect Chris Van Hollen on Monday called on the Army Corps of Engineers to "deescalate" the standoff over a pipeline in North Dakota that has been the

By John Fritze

Nov 28, 2016

• Opinion

Donna Edwards ignored me, too

Donna Edwards and her staff consistently disappoint with their lack of responsiveness

• Opinion

Heather Mizeur: Only Chris Van Hollen can fill Barbara Mikulski's shoes

For most of the eight years that I was privileged to serve in the Maryland House of Delegates, my legislative district in Montgomery County overlapped two of our state's federal Congressional Districts: the 8th (Chris Van Hollen) and the 4th (Donna Edwards). This means we shared the casework of nearly 100,000 constituents, with my office covering their state needs and Van Hollen and Edwards working on their federal concerns. This experience gave me an intimate view.

• Opinion

Eliminate the personal property tax on Maryland businesses

Eliminate the personal property tax on businesses

• Politics

Heather Mizeur pushes back on DFA's comments in Senate race

Former gubernatorial candidate and Maryland liberal leader Heather Mizeur is pushing back on comments from a leading national progressive group, arguing that it "crossed a line" in recent comments criticizing Rep. Chris Van Hollen's campaign for Senate.

By John Fritze

Oct 28, 2015

• Opinion

John Waters, Heather Mizeur among guests in first podcast Monday

All systems are go for the launch of the Roughly Speaking podcast on Monday.

By Dan Rodricks

Oct 16, 2015

• Politics

Mizeur backs Van Hollen for Senate

Heather R. Mizeur, a former state lawmaker who developed an energetic following among Maryland progressives during her run for governor last year, is endorsing Rep. Chris Van Hollen for Senate, according to a video posted on her Facebook page Wednesday.

By John Fritze

Aug 26, 2015

• Politics

Mizeur won't run for Senate or House in 2016

Heather R. Mizeur, who ran a spirited insurgent race for the Democratic nomination for governor last year, said Wednesday that she will not be a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2016.

By Michael Dresser

Apr 8, 2015

• Politics

Mizeur weighing run for retiring Mikulski's Senate seat

Former Del. Heather R. Mizeur, who gained statewide recognition in Democratic circles last year with a spirited campaign for governor, is considering a run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski.

• Opinion

Hogan misses the difference between campaigning and governing

Hogan's state of the state: Some good ideas drowned in ill advised rhetoric.

• Baltimore City Paper

Nose-picking, cringe-worthy Skynyrd tunes, and automatic defibrillators: The Nose goes to Gov. Hogan's inaugural gala

• Baltimore County

Brochin's priorities: magnet school oversight, stricter gun law

If State Sen. Jim Brochin has his way this legislative session, people convicted of committing crimes with guns will lose the right to get credit for good behavior, and the Baltimore County superintendent of schools won't be able to arbitrarily turn magnet schools into neighborhood schools without approval by the county's House and Senate delegations.

• Opinion

Gov.-elect Hogan should prioritize redistricting

Gov.-elect Larry Hogan will soon take office facing a number of daunting challenges. That said, he should add another important item to the list of immediate priorities: bringing lasting legislative and congressional redistricting reform to the state.

• Opinion

2014: An insurrection

Voters gave the Democratic powers-that-be a shock in the election of Larry Hogan and the unexpected success of Heather Mizeur.

• Politics

New voting machines finally on horizon

By Erin Cox

Dec 16, 2014

• Baltimore City Paper

How much Baltimore donors bet on Republican Larry Hogan's win for Maryland governor

Nearly $275,000 in donations from the Baltimore area flowed into two political committees supporting the successful bid of Larry Hogan and Boyd Rutherford for Maryland State House in 2014, according to campaign-finance data, compared to a little over $1 million going to the failed campaigns of Democrats Anthony Brown and Ken Ulman.

• Environment

O'Malley administration sets out path to fracking in Md.

Capping more than three years of study, the O'Malley administration declared Tuesday that hydraulic fracturing for natural gas can be done safely in Western Maryland, but only after regulations are tightened to reduce air and water pollution and protect residents from well contamination, noise and other disruption associated with an anticipated drilling boom.

By Timothy B. Wheeler

Nov 25, 2014

• Baltimore City Paper

The Mail: Bob's the Man

• Opinion

Brown's negative ads, stand-offish attitude ultimately did him in

Brown's negative ads, stand-offish attitude ultimately did him in

• Baltimore City Paper

Wandering Eye: Heather Mizeur supporters express their dismay, the troubling rise in "sneak and peek" warrants, and more

• Opinion

Why Hogan won

The 2014 governor's race should have been a slam-dunk for Anthony Brown. Larry Hogan ran a great campaign, but Brown didn't, and even in Maryland, that matters.

• Politics

Candidates hope to pry 'soft' supporters off the couch

Political professionals say most people know whom they choose between Democrat Anthony G. Brown and Republican Larry Hogan – if they actually bother to go to the polls. It's getting the may-not-bother people to show up that's the key to victory for either campaign for governor, experts say.

By Michael Dresser

Nov 1, 2014

• Features

Looking Out: Equality Maryland - and Heather Mizeur - urge turnout for Brown

Both Equality Maryland and Heather Mizuer are urging LGBT voters to turn out on Tuesday to vote for Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown to become the state's next governor.

By Kevin Rector

Oct 31, 2014

• Opinion

The Sun really wimped out when it endorsed Brown for governor

The Sun really wimped out when it endorsed Brown for governor

• Opinion

Mizeur: Don't write me in for governor

Former Md. gubernatorial candidate asks supporters to wear orange to polls, but not to write in her name

• Opinion

Brown has lost this Democrat's vote

Brown's campaign has been so hopeless and negative that it's become impossible to support him

• Politics

Campaigns urge turnout as early voting starts Thursday

Maryland voters who don't want to wait for Election Day can cast early ballots at polling centers in every county and Baltimore city starting Thursday.

By Michael Dresser

Oct 22, 2014

• Politics

Heading into final weeks, Brown shifts tone

After weeks of brutal attack ads, Democrat Anthony G. Brown has shifted his tone and started airing positive television messages leading up to the November election against Larry Hogan

By Erin Cox

Oct 15, 2014

• Politics

Sun poll: Brown holds modest lead over Hogan in fluid race

Democrat Anthony G. Brown holds a modest lead over Republican Larry Hogan in the race for governor, but many Maryland voters have not firmly made up their minds and the outcome is far from certain, according to a new poll for The Baltimore Sun. The poll by OpinionWorks of Annapolis found Brown leading Hogan 49 percent to 42 percent.

• Opinion

The gubernatorial debates should cut through mudslinging [Commentary]

The gubernatorial debates are the last chance to ensure that the campaign agenda before election day comprises material questions regarding important issues for the economic and social welfare of the state of Maryland.

• Heather R. Mizeur

Write in Heather Mizeur for governor [Letter]

• Laws and Legislation

A push for paid family leave

A growing movement of workers — and their supporters in Annapolis and Washington — wants to make paid family leave universal.

• Baltimore City Paper

Best Betrayal

• Baltimore City Paper

Best Campaign

• Politics

Libertarian candidate tackles long-shot bid one voter at a time

When you're a Libertarian candidate in Maryland, garnering more than 1 percent of the vote on Election Day counts as a win. But for Shawn Quinn, candidate for governor, nothing short of toppling both the major-party candidates will feel like victory.

By Erin Cox

Aug 9, 2014

• Politics

Sierra Club endorses Brown

One of Maryland's largest environmental groups on Wednesday threw its support behind Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown in the race for governor.

• Opinion

The positives of negative ads [Commentary]

• Politics

Democrats schedule unity rally

Maryland Democrats have scheduled an "unity" rally to for next week mend fissures exposed by the party's rancorous primary contest.

• Opinion

Md.'s public financing resurrection [Editorial]

Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan's decision to accept public financing is a victory for good government — unless his campaign is a flop.

• Politics

Democrats schedule unity rally

• Politics

Hogan opts for public financing in governor's race

Republican Larry Hogan will be the first candidate in two decades to mount a statewide general election bid using taxpayer donations. Hogan's campaign said Tuesday it will accept public financing, an unusual move that reflects the GOP's uphill political fight against the state's better-funded and more powerful Democratic Party.

• Opinion

The Jaffe movement continues [Letter]

Ralph Jaffe vows that his loss in the Maryland gubernatorial primary will not be the end of his political movement.

• Opinion

You haven't heard the last of Heather Mizeur [Letter]

You haven't heard the last of Heather Mizeur

• Opinion

You haven't heard the last of Heather Mizeur [Letter]

• Elections

For the Maryland 80 percent, still time to get off the bench