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Joyce Lyons Terhes was the first Republican woman elected to the Calvert County Board of Commissioners.

Former State Senator Nancy Jacobs, who represented Harford and Cecil Counties during her twenty years in the Maryland General Assembly, today announced her diagnosis with B-cell non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. This is the same kind of cancer Governor Larry Hogan was diagnosed with in June of last year.

Capitalizing on a GOP surge nationally, Maryland Republicans picked up several seats in the General Assembly where they have been the minority party for years.

With early voting coming to a close and the official election day around the corner, Harford's residents will be getting a new County Executive, as well as a mostly new County Council come Nov. 5.

The competition to fill the Harford County state Senate seat held by retiring Nancy Jacobs pits Republican Bob Cassilly, a former mayor of Bel Air and former county councilman, against Democratic Del. Mary-Dulany James.

Last week's primary election settled may have set in motion what could well be a watershed general election where Harford County is concerned. This November, there will be significant number of African-American candidates on the ballot who have a credible chance of being elected, which seldom happens around here, as in almost never.

Harford County joined the rest of the state in having one of the most dismal voter turnouts in recent memory, with fewer than a quarter of the area's registered voters making it out to the polls for Tuesday's primary election.

Del. Mary-Dulany James built up a wide lead over Art Helton in Tuesday's primary election for the Democratic nomination to the state Senate race in Legislative District 34.

Amid what for most of the day Tuesday was a lackluster turnout, Harford County voters went about choosing major party nominees for county and state offices in the 2014 primary election.

Helton, who represented the county in the State Senate from 1975 to 1983, is trying to unseat the 14-year Del. Mary-Dulany James in the race to represent the eastern edge of the county.

The next Harford County state's attorney will not get the proposed salary increase introduced through legislation during the 2014 General Assembly, which wrapped up Monday night.

Legislators find ways and means to attends Spacey event

The Maryland Senate passed legislation to increase the salary of the Harford County State's Attorney.

Art Helton is again seeking the State Senate seat he once held more than three decades ago and, as happened when he ran four years ago, his residency has been challenged.

One of my goals, once upon a time, was to write one of those scholarly type articles that got reprinted and handed out to legions of college students in first level political science classes, forever immortalizing the obscure author to the annals of the irrelevant, not unlike a one-hit wonder in the recording world.

Harford County voters are likely to see a number of familiar names plus a smattering of new ones when they vote for their representatives to the Maryland General Assembly in Annapolis later this election year.

I did find time to enjoy gardening, boating, crabbing, and bow-hunting. I moved my mother to Aberdeen to be closer to the family and my pets Sasha are Tiger Lilly are doing well; my dear Mom has adopted my cat tiger.

Gov. Martin O'Malley said Wednesday that the state is mustering all necessary resources to complete the tens of thousands of background checks for gun buyers by Oct. 1, when Maryland's new gun law takes effect.

Del. Wayne Norman and Teresa Reilly, vice chair of the Harford County Republican Central Committee, have jointly announced their campaign for the Maryland Senate and House of Delegates, respectively. Norman and Reilly said they will run together in District 35, which encompasses parts of Cecil and Harford counties.

Maryland's embattled Republican Party has just seen its top day-to-day official resign without notice, one of its delegates get arrested for the second time on a serious alcohol-related offense and a virtual civil war break out over who will replace the senator in one of its safest districts.

Bruising internal battle shaping up for Pipkin seat

Zirkin, Morhaim, Stein form re-election ticket

James considering run for Jacobs seat

Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent turned Republican activist, set his sights Tuesday on taking back Maryland's 6th District congressional seat for the GOP. But state Sen. Nancy Jacobs, one of the state's longest-serving Republican lawmakers, said she will not seek re-election in 2014, adding to the attrition of the GOP's small band of senators.

State Senator Nancy Jacobs, a Republican representing District 34 that includes parts of Harford and Cecil counties along the Route 40 corridor, announced today that she will not be seeking reelection next year.

GOP's Jacobs to quit state Senate

At least 60 people came out to downtown Bel Air Saturday afternoon to take part in the Harford County Republican Central Committee's Second Amendment Rally, and meet many of the legislators who tried to defeat the state's new gun control laws.

The Maryland Senate gave final approval to Gov. Martin O'Malley's sweeping gun control bill Thursday night, sending the legislation to the governor for his promised signature.

In a long-sought victory for Baltimore, the Maryland Senate voted Friday for a plan that will provide $1 billion to launch an unprecedented systemwide drive to rebuild and renovate the city's crumbling school buildings.

The Maryland Senate voted Wednesday to make Maryland the 18th state to abolish the death penalty, sending the bill to the House of Delegates.

With all three of Harford County's state senators having voted against proposed sweeping statewide gun control legislation, local delegates on the House side are now taking their turn with it.