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Maryland Politics
Obama’s surge could change Md.’s political future
- As Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama look to Maryland Democrats to help seal their party’s nomination, analysts say their primary battle will leave a lasting imprint on state politics.
- As Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama look to Maryland Democrats to help seal their party’s nomination, analysts say their primary battle will leave a lasting imprint on state politics.
Economy to dominate Md. primaries
- Less than a week before Maryland’s first battleground presidential primary in recent memory, Democrats and Republicans agree on one thing: economic issues will dominate.
Hughes deserves more
- Here’s one for the Great Legacy Department: Twenty years after he left office, the State Highway Administration honors Harry Hughes. They’ve named a rest stop on Interstate 95 for him.
Gansler: Chesapeake Bay in ‘crisis’
- About a year ago, Maryland voters elected the first new attorney general in 20 years, after former Attorney General Joseph Curran retired. Curran’s replacement, Doug Gansler, recently sat down with The Examiner to discuss his first year as the state’s top lawyer. A former lacrosse player at Yale and a graduate of University of Virginia’s law school, Gansler was Montgomery County’s chief prosecutor for eight years.
- About a year ago, Maryland voters elected the first new attorney general in 20 years, after former Attorney General Joseph Curran retired. Curran’s replacement, Doug Gansler, recently sat down with The Examiner to discuss his first year as the state’s top lawyer. A former lacrosse player at Yale and a graduate of University of Virginia’s law school, Gansler was Montgomery County’s chief prosecutor for eight years.
Tom Moore: Schaefer: The lion in winter
- Maryland’s greatest politician since Revolutionary figure Samuel Chase is finally slowing down. The lion known as William Donald Schaefer is in the winter of life.
Will Preakness move? Analyst says ‘neigh’
- There’s a great deal chatter locally about the Preakness and its future in Baltimore, but what does the national media think?
- There’s a great deal chatter locally about the Preakness and its future in Baltimore, but what does the national media think?
Thomas Schaller: Ehrlich will return to Maryland politics
- In 1986, Bob Ehrlich launched his first political campaign for office. Just 28 years old and barely out of Wake Forest Law School, he ran for and won a seat as a delegate from Baltimore County to the Maryland General Assembly.
Franchot to be sworn in as comptroller today
- Former Del. Peter Franchot will be sworn in as Maryland comptroller at 11 a.m. today in the House of Delegates chamber by Gov. Martin O’Malley, the last of the new statewide officials to take the oath.
- Former Del. Peter Franchot will be sworn in as Maryland comptroller at 11 a.m. today in the House of Delegates chamber by Gov. Martin O’Malley, the last of the new statewide officials to take the oath.
Thomas Schaller: O’Malley leading the band of Maryland politics
- Martin O’Malley’s inauguration Wednesday as Maryland’s 61st governor is, on the surface, a return to normalcy — a restoration of the status quo of familiar, one-party Democratic control in the Old Line State.
The tax men cometh at the 2007 General Assembly
- Hide your children. Bury the family silver.