Maryland Politics

15 days ago - Not quite everything goes in San Francisco.

128 days ago - A Maryland state economic development Web site was touting the state’s low union membership rates in a bid to lure businesses, until pro-labor bloggers started hammering the practice.

283 days ago - 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.

288 days ago - 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.

317 days ago - 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.

346 days ago - 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.

360 days ago - 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.

551 days ago - There’s a great deal chatter locally about the Preakness and its future in Baltimore, but what does the national media think?

657 days ago - 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.

668 days ago - 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.

671 days ago - 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.