Maryland Politics Watch

By Sharon Dooley. John McCain entered the final campaign debate of 2008 in full offensive mode. He came into the evening like an old bull r...

It is a great shame that we ran our MoCo Most Influential survey prior to the revelations about Delegate Saqib Ali’s Facebook page. Had S...

By Marc Korman. The Maryland Commission on Climate Change issued its action plan in August. The plan sets ambitious goals to reduce greenh...

The Montgomery County Sentinel is running a series in which they ask all of Montgomery County's delegation about their positions on the ...

United Mine Workers President Cecil Roberts puts on a textbook demonstration of how to talk about the presidential race with working class v...

by Wayne Goldstein, Montgomery County Civic Federation Immediate Past President. People are starting to pay close attention to the slots ref...

Back in May, we commented on the fact that very few "anti-slots" politicians were stepping up to support the campaign against the...

In Part One , we made the case that Montgomery County’s real estate and construction industries together might account for one-fifth or more...

There is a lot of talk about a Great Crash: that of America’s stock market. And there is a lot of talk about another Great Crash: that of A...

Campaign Debate UMBC at Shady Grove, Political Science and History Programs and Montgomery College History & Political Science Departmen...

By Sharon Dooley. Tuesday's debate featured Senators Barack Obama and John McCain in a so-called Town Hall Meeting. This event was far ...

Once Delegate Saqib Ali introduced us to the joys of Facebook , it was only a matter of time before I set up a Facebook page for this blog. ...

If we can take a break from Saqib-Mania for a moment, let’s return to the biggest story from last week: our series on Montgomery County’s m...

When you've made Olbermann's Worst Person list, you really have nothing left in life to achieve! Now when is Keith going to find out...

By Marc Korman. After I complained about blue-ribbon commissions, a few people asked me what I would do to address Maryland’s budget challe...

Here we have another hot potato (or perhaps a burning ember) on this blog. How do you feel about this ?

Campaign Billboard in Kumasi, Ghana The Perfect Gift Before I left for Africa, I raced around looking for a place to buy Obama buttons to gi...

Now I have nothing against Delegate Saqib Ali (D-39). He has a pro - labor , pro-environment voting record. He was supported by numerous ...

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley will be on the 'Political Pulse' talk show on Channel 16 TV in Montgomery County on: Thursday...

Very few politicians are more unpopular in Annapolis than Comptroller Peter Franchot. Put aside for a moment his raging feud with Big Dad...

By Adam Pagnucco, Eric Luedtke and Dan Reed. Recently, an anonymous blog appeared targeting Montgomery County Council Member Mike Knapp. T...

The District 39 Delegation invites you to join them for: Community Foreclosure Forum Saturday, October 11, 2008 10:00 a.m. – noon Location: ...

Following is the text of a memo sent by pro-slots For Maryland, For Our Future to elected leaders concerning Comptroller Peter Franchot. (...

Many of our readers are door-knocking or calling voters in Virginia. The following data suggests that your efforts are paying off. Accordin...

Magna Entertainment Corporation, owner of Laurel Park and Pimlico Race Course, is on the verge of bankruptcy. That fact drives its desperat...

This is the first step in what the Washington Post describes as a "fiercer strategy" by the McCain campaign against Barack Obama....

The Washington Post's Lisa Rein covered MPW's most influential elected officials list, even using one of our sources' quotes on...

Stop Slots Maryland activists went to the Fells Point Festival to talk to Marylanders about slots. Here is what they had to say.

By Frank Anastasi. The State of Maryland is about to take a definitive move on the planned Rockville District Courthouse on October 15 when ...