Maryland Politics Watch

Delegate Jane Lawton has endorsed Rob Enelow and Linna Barnes for reelection to the Chevy Chase Town Council: I am writing to urge your supp...

The revenue-spending balance is clearly a major issue in Montgomery County. There is a lot of discussion about raising revenue. I tend to ...

Twenty-seven Chevy Chase residents have sent out a letter endorsing incumbents Linna Barnes and Rob Enelow for the two seats on the Town C...

Read obituaries for this former conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra and internationally renowned cellist in the Washington Post an...

. . . to my post below on yesterday's article in the Post on Planning Chairman Royce Hanson's comments to the Montgomery Council. ...

Elections in the Town of Chevy Chase have the reputation of being pretty genteel contests. Candidate often send out letters to town reside...

Montgomery County Planning Chairman Royce Hanson says not much can be done about traffic without a massive upping of the gas tax and limitin...

Governor O'Malley signed a bill which restores the rights of convicted felons to vote once they have completed their sentence and are o...

MD State Delegate Brian Feldman (D. Potomac) and Steve Kreseski, former Chief of Staff to former Governor Ehrlich, will be on "Politica...

Budget crises are breaking up the election coalition which largely triumphed in this year's Democratic primary. Both the state and the ...

Maryland may be south of the Mason-Dixon line but it is firmly aligning with the northeast on this question: Maryland joined a multistate e...

Two seats on the Chevy Chase Town Council are up for election on May 1st. Both Mayor Linna Barnes and Councilman Rob Enelow plan to seek r...

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) faces a primary challenge : A Lexington Park man has filed to challenge House Majority Leader Steny...

The Washington Post reports: According to the census estimates, Maryland's total population last year was 5,615,727, the 19th-highest i...

Are the County Council and MCEA getting ready to go loggerheads over the County education budget? An activist friend writes: The school boa...

Sens. Rich Madaleno (D-Montgomery) and Paul Pinsky (D-Prince George's) sponsored a resolution on the deployment of 1300 members of the M...

Delegate Marilyn Goldwater (D-16) has missed most of the current legislative session : According to records, she was present for quorum cal...

Check out my post on PolySigh for a beaut of an example of how House Republicans are often quick to highlight waste, fraud, and abuse when ...

According to an article in the Washington Blade , Dan Furmansky of Equality Maryland blamed Judicial Proceedings Chairman Brian Frosh (D-1...

See my post on Free State Politics on how the Senate has killed a paper trail but breathed life into Electoral College reform proposals.

Equality Maryland reports that the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee killed legislation which would have "prohibited discriminati...

Sen. Rich Madaleno sent out the following email today: This week I had the pleasure of testifying with District 18 activist Aaron Kaufman o...

Equality Maryland thanked various legislators on the House Judiciary Committee for their support in killing Del. Don Dwyer 's (R-Anne Ar...

I attended the public meeting on the development of Lots 31 and 31A in downtown Bethesda. County parking lots are situated currently on th...

Last Thursday, I attended the Montgomery County Senate delegation meeting which was taken up by a piece of local legislation advocated by Se...

Yesterday, I had the privilege of sitting on the floor of the Maryland Senate--a wonderfully historic chamber in our beautiful State Capitol...

The Chevy Chase Town Council met yesterday and managed to get through an amazingly ambitious agenda. All five members of the Council were ...

The Wheaton-Kensington Chamber of Commerce Awards Dinner will be held at Hollywood East Café on the Boulevard, 2621 University Boulevard, ...

No new posts have appeared for several days on Maryland Politics Watch because your intrepid blogger left the safety and comfort of Montgome...

Two-term Maryland Governor Harry R. Hughes (1979-1987) and John Frece, who together co-wrote "My Unexpected Journey" about Governo...

The Atlantic has a fascinating story explaining how gay mogul Tim Gill is organizing wealthy gay donors to finance campaigns against anti-g...

Scooter Libby was found guilty of lying about his role in the leak of an undercover CIA officer's name. As a friend of mine likes to ...

The Washington Post has a column today that helps explain why I still have difficulty seeing Rudy Giuliani as the Republican nominee for p...

on Just Up the Pike .

Former Assistant Secretary Carol Arscott penned a column in the Gazette which contains the now standard Republican bleating about the unfai...

Todd Howland advocates that the District of Columbia should borrow a page from London and charge people who drive into the city . Howland r...

Former State Secretary for Disabilities Kristen Cox, who Ehrlich selected as running mate in the 2006 election, came out against making mone...