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The Firearm Safety Act of 2013, passed with the support of Gov. Martin O'Malley, did nothing to stop murders in Baltimore.

A long-serving Maryland inmate was approved for parole 15 years ago but denied release by Hogan's predecessor.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who was considered a potential Democratic candidate for president following a failed 2016 bid, says he will not run in 2020 and is instead urging Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke to get into the race.

On Monday, Oct. 29th, I was very disappointed to read the article by former governor, Martin O’Malley (“Martin O'Malley: Larry Hogan's 'real estate racket”). I was also insulted that he assumes readers of The Baltimore Sun don’t have the intelligence to see through his Trumpian assault.

Martin O'Malley: Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has sent a message to developers that Maryland is open for business — as long as you are using Larry Hogan’s business to get your development permits. Hire The Hogan Companies, and you get whatever state permits you need, the implication goes.

In the midst of a robust economy, Maryland's mistreatment of state retirees and their prescription drug needs is just shameful.

Martin O'Malley's campaign for candidates in other states may be self-serving, but it's also smart for the Democratic Party.

Democrat candidate for House of Delegates Emily Shank's website exclaims, "Annapolis has fully become a political machine, and it needs to be broken. I want to

Former Maryland governor and Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley – the 2016 presidential candidate – did not escape the FBI agents’ wrath.

By Jeff Barker

Jun 15, 2018

Former Gov. Martin O'Malley will endorse Rushern Baker in the race for the Democratic nomination for governor.

By Michael Dresser

Jun 7, 2018

The city's much-needed east-west light rail line could be resuscitated under the right governor.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa resigned Tuesday after being charged with failing to file federal income tax returns — ending a term that lasted just 116 days. But he doesn’t own the title of shortest tenure as Baltimore’s top cop.

By Brian Compere

May 15, 2018

Former Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley was back in New Hampshire on Tuesday and said his party needs to end its pity party and face the future.

Baltimore can't afford to spend $200,000 to fight immigration enforcement actions.

Gubernatorial candidate Richard S. Madaleno Jr. chooses Luwanda Jenkins, who headed Gov. Martin O'Malley's minority affairs office, as his running mate.

By Michael Dresser

Feb 18, 2018

Martin O'Malley doesn't like President Trump's desired military parade.

By Sean Welsh

Feb 8, 2018

The other day, I went to the governor's press conference about gerrymandering in Maryland. Gerrymandering is wrong, no matter who is doing it. Maryland has

Maryland lawmakers have named the members of a commission to examine workplace polices on sexual harassment in all three branches of state government.

Nearly three years after leaving office, former Gov. Martin O'Malley and his wife still haven't had their portraits painted for display in Annapolis.

By Michael Dresser

Jan 2, 2018

Gov. Larry Hogan said Tuesday night that he has canceled "zero-waste" landfill rules issued by Gov. Martin O'Malley a week before he left office in 2015.

By Michael Dresser

Jun 27, 2017

You might call Michael Cryor the Kevin Bacon of Baltimore — he's seemingly not more than a degree or two of separation from anyone in town. That doesn't just

State Democrats this week were forced to admit what most people already knew: Congressional redistricting maps were drawn up using partisan politics with the

"Veep" actor Reid Scott said Martin O'Malley wanted a cameo role on the HBO comedy series.

By Brittany Britto

Jun 2, 2017

Democrats should read Martin O'Malley's deposition in the redistricting lawsuit and imagine how they would feel if his words were coming out of Larry Hogan's mouth.

Maryland's convoluted congressional districts were drawn with an eye toward ousting a Republican incumbent and replacing him with a Democrat, former Gov. Martin O'Malley acknowledged as part of a high-profile legal challenge to the maps winding its way through federal court.

By John Fritze

Jun 1, 2017

Maryland is prosecuting its fewest environmental crimes in at least two decades as Gov. Larry Hogan fulfills promises to ease regulatory burdens on businesses.

By Scott Dance

May 10, 2017

As Kirwin commission noted months ago, state hasn't invested sufficiently in Baltimore's public schools

The Cecil County executive pushes back against what he sees as state usurpation of local land use authority.

We recently highlighted some of the ways Martin O'Malley, former mayor of Baltimore and governor of Maryland, has foolishly hinted at another bid for the

Hey, so lots of people are still despondent about this whole Trump thing, even if some 40 percent of Americans are still on board for whatever reason, according

It has now been four years since Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation to establish the Natalie M. LaPrade Medical Marijuana Commission in Maryland. It has been, without question, the slowest rollout of a medical cannabis program by any of the 26 states that have legalized medical cannabis.

A three-judge panel has ordered Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. and House Speaker Michael E. Busch to give depositions and turn over documents in a federal lawsuit challenging the 2011 redrawing of the state's congressional districts.

Gov. Larry Hogan renewed his call for redistricting reform Friday, saying "the time is now" to end gerrymandering in Maryland.

By Michael Dresser

Mar 3, 2017

The Maryland Senate on Thursday killed but later revived a bill that would reinstate Gov. Martin O'Malley's 2012 rule requiring installation of advanced technology in homes built on septic systems even when they are located outside the "critical areas" that border the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.

By Michael Dresser

Mar 2, 2017

Hogan is way better than O'Malley on parole for those serving life sentences. Fainter praise we cannot imagine.

Hogan administration has failed to enforce 2012 land preservation law requiring 'tier maps' and discouraging rural development.

Maryland spent casino revenue on unfunded mandates, not education

Gov. O'Malley is a convert on redistricting reform — and he's got an argument Md. Dems need to hear.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on Wednesday endorsed an Indiana mayor to lead the Democratic National Committee, eschewing fellow Marylander and a former

By John Fritze

Feb 8, 2017

Joseph F. Steffen Jr., 57, a Republican political operative who described himself as the "Prince of Darkness" died of coronary disease Friday at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. The Dundalk resident was 57.

The Maryland Board of Public Works' decision to void the controversial State Center project in Baltimore was a refreshing affirmation that Maryland taxpayers have advocates in Annapolis. Despite advocates' best efforts to pretend otherwise, the State Center redevelopment project was a taxpayer-funded boondoggle plagued by shady procedural processes, artificially high rental rates and high costs for taxpayers.

Risks posed by hydraulic fracturing more than offset any possible rewards for Western Maryland

The Board of Public Works is scheduled to vote Wednesday on proposal to end the state's 7-year-old agreement with the developer of the stalled $1.5 billion State Center in Baltimore.

By Michael Dresser

Dec 21, 2016

A Tuesday hearing of regulations to protect water quality and public health should fracking one day take place in Maryland portended an imminent fight over whether to ban the controversial gas-extraction process before the proposed rules take effect next year.

By Scott Dance

Dec 20, 2016

Maryland's Department of Natural Resources is flying high after regaining use of a helicopter for aerial surveillance.

Less than a week after floating his name for the job, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said Wednesday he will not run to lead the Democratic National

By John Fritze

Nov 16, 2016

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley became the latest Democrat to throw his name in as a possible candidate to lead the national party, which is searching for

By John Fritze

Nov 11, 2016

Maryland will send two new lawmakers to the House of Representatives for the first time in more than a decade.

By John Fritze

Nov 8, 2016

James Gates, a physicist and Maryland State School Board member, is resigning his position on the board as a protest against Gov. Larry Hogan's executive order to begin school after Labor Day.

The state medical marijuana commissioner who cast the lone dissenting vote on a controversial move to deny grower's licenses to two highly rated applicants and give them to lower-ranked rivals has been replaced.

By Michael Dresser

Oct 7, 2016