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Elizabeth Warren’s biggest applause line at Tuesday night’s Democratic debate had all the road-tested messaging appeal of a pink-pussyhatted women’s march. Gesturing to the male candidates on the stage, she whipped out some math: “Collectively (the men) have lost 10 ...

At a recent ceremony heralding the completion of the first Purple Line track mile, Gov. Larry Hogan highlighted Maryland’s infrastructure leadership, saying the state was “setting an example for the rest of the nation.” The light-rail project is the largest ...

Good financial advice leaves you better off. Bad advice does the opposite, and may even enrich someone else at your expense. Here are some areas where you need to be particularly careful to seek out good advice, since bad advice ...

Rejecting calls for leniency from members of the Maryland General Assembly, U.S. District Court judge Theodore Chuang sentenced former Del. Tawanna Gaines to six months in prison after she pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud for taking money ...

In her recent commentary “Good idea for Disney, bad idea for Maryland” (Dec. 12, 2019) Carol Park demonstrates that she may have been so dazzled by Disney’s amusements that her fact-checking slipped. While her claims about the safety and cost ...

Overblown alarm over reasonable gun-safety laws proposed in statehouses across the country has led to a movement by various local governments declaring themselves Second Amendment “sanctuaries” — vowing to establish local jurisdictions where state gun laws that they view as ...

Across Maryland, municipalities are preparing for 5G — rapidly evolving technology that will be the backbone of broadband’s future. However, an uncoordinated and fragmented approach to building the infrastructure will likely impede progress and delay access to critical technology. Maryland ...

Here we go again. Less than a year ago we worked to dispel fears that without industry-supported legislation, Maryland wouldn’t move forward with exciting 5G technology. As it turned out, those fears were unfounded and the arguments encouraging them untrue. ...

Governor Hogan’s first transportation secretary recently resigned and on his way out the door he told a newspaper, “I believe we still have a disproportionate share of the (transportation) trust fund going to transit.” What the departing secretary never seemed ...

Public education in Maryland is at a crossroads, and our children are counting on adults to do the right thing. For too long, our public schools have operated under an outdated and inadequate funding formula. Every time you walk into ...