Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., the longest serving leader of the Maryland Senate, has been moved to hospice, according to multiple sources. The news comes less than a month after Miller held a news conference announcing he would step down ...

The top two Republicans in the Maryland House of Delegates say this session will be their last leading the caucus. Dels. Nic Kipke and Kathy Szeliga, House Minority leader and whip respectively, told Republicans in a call on the eve ...

A Frederick County Delegate is apologizing for a social media message directed at Vice President Mike Pence sent as pro-President Donald Trump protesters rioted and stormed the U.S. Capitol. Del. Dan Cox, in an email Tuesday, apologized for a now-deleted message ...

ANNAPOLIS – A proposal to limit the governor’s authority to impose a state of emergency in practically unlimited 30-day periods is being derided by Republican Gov. Larry Hogan. Maryland has been under a state of emergency since the first coronavirus ...

State officials are butting heads over a COVID-19 statistic that has been turned into a ubiquitous measurement of how well the pandemic is being handled. Maryland’s seven-day rolling positivity rate rose to 3.71% Friday, the highest since Sept. 11. Gov. ...

The top two Republicans in the Maryland Senate will not seek reelection to their leadership posts. Sens. J.B Jennings and Steve Hershey, the minority party leader and whip, respectively, made the announcement late Tuesday night. The pair were facing a ...

A longtime top aide to Comptroller Peter Franchot is suddenly out. Leaving is Len Foxwell, Franchot’s chief of staff, who is sometimes credited with the political rebirth of Franchot and as the architect of his transformation from a self-proclaimed Takoma ...

Maryland state senators will have to pick and choose their legislative battles under a set of rule changes for the 2021 General Assembly. The changes for 2021 come after a pandemic-shortened session this year in which there were complaints about ...

State lawmakers are calling for an accounting of how 500,000 COVID-19 tests purchased from South Korea have been used during the ongoing pandemic. The much ballyhooed announcement of the acquisition of those tests has been followed by scant details of ...

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Experts at Johns Hopkins weighed in Thursday on questions arising from seemingly contradictory metrics used to track the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, lead epidemiologist for the Coronavirus Resource Center at Johns Hopkins, said a lack of clear federal guidance ...