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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.

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.

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

By Dan Rodricks

Nov 2, 2017

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

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

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

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

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.

Eliminate the personal property tax on businesses

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

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

By Dan Rodricks

Oct 16, 2015

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The Sun really wimped out when it endorsed Brown for governor

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

You haven't heard the last of Heather Mizeur