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Republican Gov. Larry Hogan highlighted his ability to work with Democrats and said he's "fed up" with politics during his second television ad of the primary season.

Larry Hogan's new web-only health care ad paints Washington as the problem, and bipartisanship (and himself) as the solution.

Maryland General Assembly leaders say they are willing to consider a special session devoted to possibly legalizing sports betting, after the Supreme Court struck down a law barring New Jersey and other states from offering it.

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday enthusiastically signed more than 200 bills passed by the Democratic-led legislature, including major initiatives to enhance education funding and help victims of sexual harassment or assault.

Jill Carter, a former state delegate and current civil rights chief at the Baltimore mayor's office, has been appointed to the Maryland senate seat vacated by Nathaniel Oaks.

Top Democrats took from Peter Franchot a possible future chairmanship of state's pension board but they may also have stumbled into rational policy.

Maryland-based companies would get a tax break under legislation that was approved by the General Assembly this week.

Gov. Larry Hogan sounds a bipartisan theme as he signs 114 bills.

Larry Hogan racked up one win after another for progressives in this General Assembly session. Go figure.

The black and Latino caucuses of the Maryland General Assembly took a stand Thursday against comprehensive crime bills pending in the final days of the legislative session.

In a politically-tinged power struggle with the governor and state comptroller, the General Assembly reversed Gov. Larry's Hogan veto Thursday. With the veto overridden, the Board of Public Works will no longer get final say in school construction decisions.

The bump stock — an obscure gun accessory that became infamous when a mass killer in Las Vegas used one to speed up his lethal rate of fire — would be banned in Maryland under legislation passed by the General Assembly Wednesday.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan pulled out a stamp and a red marker Wednesday to dramatically veto a bill that would overhaul the process by which the state vets and approves construction and renovation of schools. Comptroller Peter Franchot joined him in ceremonially signing on to the veto.

Maryland state lawmakers have just a week left to resolve some of the costliest and most controversial problems of the year: shoring up Obamacare, alleviating an expected rise in income taxes, expanding the medical marijuana industry and bolstering school safety.

Comptroller Peter Franchot, who has taken repeated political hits during this year's General Assembly session, slammed Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller in a radio interview Friday and accused the Democratic "machine" in Annapolis of corruption.

Nathaniel Oaks resigned from office at a time that makes it almost impossible for the residents of the 41st District to be represented in the Maryland Senate in the waning days of this year's session.

The Maryland Senate voted Thursday to overhaul the way the state approves funding for school construction projects, ending a legislative flurry that has provoked Gov. Larry Hogan and Comptroller Peter Franchot to direct sharp accusations of cronyism at the legislature.

Nathaniel T. Oaks pleaded guilty to two federal corruption charges this morning in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Judge Richard D. Bennett said — about two hours after Oaks formally resigned his Senate seat in the Maryland General Assembly.

There are real problems that need solving in how Maryland pays for school construction. There's also an election coming. One of those things is driving the bus in Annapolis.

Maryland state Sen. Nathaniel Oaks, facing federal corruption trial, resigns from Maryland General Assembly. The Baltimore Democrat is facing a trial on bribery charges later this month.

Gov. Larry Hogan unleashed bitter criticism of leading lawmakers Wednesday over what he called a "simply outrageous" proposal to strip oversight authority over school construction from a board he chairs.

The Maryland General Assembly passed a bill that is expected to save Baltimore’s public schools from losing more than $300 million due to special tax deals awarded to developments that make the city appear more prosperous than it really is.

Despite assurances from the most powerful three men in Maryland politics, not all Marylanders will be protected from paying more as a result of the new federal tax bill.

When Maryland Democrats redrew the state’s congressional districts in 2011, officials set up the commission charged with crafting the maps to avoid the state’s open meetings law, according to a cache of documents from the time reviewed by The Baltimore Sun.

Fearful that Maryland's individual insurance market could collapse weeks before Election Day, Democrat and Republican leaders have pushed a $380 million tax to shore up Obamacare in Maryland next year.

When Republican state Del. Deborah C. Rey heard the nation’s latest school shooting was unfolding at one of the three public high schools in her rural Southern Maryland district, she started to pray.

Marylanders stopped by police could carry up to an ounce of marijuana and only face civil fines under a bill the state Senate passed Monday night.

A veteran senator from Southern Maryland would have one of Maryland’s largest bridges named after him under legislation that is advancing in the House of Delegates.

Senators on Friday approved a bill stripping "Maryland, My Maryland" of its status as the state's official song, instead relegating it to be known as a "historical" state song.

It's no coincidence that Gov. Larry Hogan is teaming up with Democrats in the legislature to shore up Obamacare. It could be a huge issue for him — and Republicans nationwide — come November.

Maryland House passes bill putting sports betting referendum on November ballot if Supreme Court opens door to maryland offering it.

Describing recent health insurance premium increases in Maryland as “unsustainable,” Gov. Larry Hogan and the state’s legislative leaders on Wednesday embraced the idea of a federal reinsurance program that would help offset the expense of the sickest patients.

The Maryland Senate on Monday mourned the death of Sen. Wayne Norman, a Harford County Republican who died Sunday.

The Maryland Senate on Monday night passed a bill to require president and vice presidential candidates to release their tax returns if they wish to appear on the state's ballots.

A longtime Maryland lawmaker accused a former colleague and current lobbyist of inappropriately touching her, and said it wasn't the first time.

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.

Reports of foreign efforts to meddle in the 2016 election detailed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's indictment last week of 13 Russians have highlighted concerns about whether American voting systems — including Maryland's — are vulnerable to cyberattacks.

The General Assembly will hold hearings this week on whether to require Marylanders to buy health insurance after federal officials repealed such an individual mandate at the federal level.

Democrats in the General Assembly are increasingly irritated by Gov. Larry Hogan's penchant for adopting — some would say hijacking — their popular proposals and claiming them as his own. A Hogan spokesman says it's just a demonstration that the governor is willing to push for good ideas wherever

With the release of the Kirwan Commission’s preliminary report came anger and confusion from local leaders, as no solution to the Carroll County Public Schools system’s funding problems was included.

The Democratic leaders of the General Assembly said Thursday that they will support legislation implementing the a broad range of improvements in Maryland’s public schools recommended by a commission Gov. Larry Hogan wrote off the previous day as lost.

Gov. Larry Hogan threw his support behind creating a "lockbox" to ensure that casino revenues are used as an enhancement to state education funding — not just to meet minimum obligations.

Gov. Larry Hogan signed legislation Tuesday that would allow the termination of the parental rights of fathers when a court finds the child was conceived in rape.

Senate Budget & Taxation Committee Chairman Edward J. Kasemeyer will not run for re-election.

The Maryland Senate on Wednesday advanced legislation to delay a policy entitling part-time workers to paid sick leave until July, setting up a showdown with the House of Delegates over one of the biggest policy initiatives of the legislature's current term.

The Maryland Women’s Caucus on Wednesday released a set of recommendations on how to root out and prevent sexual harassment in the Maryland General Assembly.

With two weeks until thousands of part-time workers across Maryland are set to begin accruing paid time off, state leaders are at odds over whether to give confused business owners more time to adjust to the new law.

The Maryland ACLU and a coalition of allies came together Tuesday to call for the defeat of Gov. Larry Hogan's package of crime bill, charging that they revive the unsuccessful strategies of the 1980s.

Leading Maryland General Assembly Democrats on Tuesday threw their support behind a proposal to channel the state’s casino revenue to a “lockbox” for education funding.

Robert R. Neall won a unanimous recommendation from a Senate committee Monday to be confirmed as Maryland’s secretary of health.