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Last Nov. 1 marked 145 years since slavery was abolished in Maryland. It has been two years since the City of Annapolis wrote its version of an apology for slavery.
In the annals of inept campaigns for governor in our region, the disastrous effort by Virginia state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds is rivaled in recent memory perhaps only by Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's humiliating loss in Maryland seven years ago. As Democrats study the results and look to 2010,...
Maryland voters tested a new cryptographic voting system on Tuesday that lets them check online to ensure their ballot was counted. The system also lets independent auditors verify that votes went to the correct candidates.
ceswiedler writes "In Tuesday's election voters in Takoma Park, MD used a new cryptographic voting system designed by David Chaum with researchers from several universities including MIT and the University of Maryland. Voters use a special ink to mark their ballots, which reveals three-digit codes which they can later check against a website to verify their vote was tallied. Additionally, anyone ...
Maryland may not exactly line up in the political landscape with New Jersey or Virginia, but a new poll shows voter dissatisfaction could plague Gov. Martin O'Malley in his re-election bid next year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Republicans, including Maryland Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Frederick, rallied against the House health care reform bill Thursday, speaking to a large crowd of supporters chanting "Kill the bill" and "U-S-A, U-S-A."
"We're very close" to having enough votes to prevail, said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland.
But Democratic congressman says he could support 'a better bill' in future If Democratic leaders manage to push a massive health care overhaul through the House of Representatives this weekend, they'll have to do it without one of Maryland's Democratic congressmen.
Rockville ousted its mayor Tuesday, and Greenbelt voters elected the first African American to a City Council that was recently expanded to encourage minority representation.
Former Maryland governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) said that Tuesday's Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey would figure prominently in his thinking about a possible comeback next year, and Democrats downplayed the meaning of the results for Maryland, where their party is more dominant.
The number of charter schools in the District has skyrocketed over the past decade, and charters are on track to claim 38 percent of public school students in the city. The charter scene is a comparative desert in Virginia and Maryland, but that might be changing.