BALTIMORE – Over three months into her term as Baltimore’s unelected mayor, Sheila Dixon has weathered crisis after crisis at what is often called the toughest job in Maryland

POOLESVILLE – Spurred by the ethanol boom, corn prices are surging to historic highs, and farmer Jamie Jamison and others like him throughout Maryland are expecting to plant corn at levels not seen in the state for over a decade

ANNAPOLIS – A novel Baltimore program intended to contain the spread of sexually transmitted diseases by allowing infected individuals to pass on medication to their sexual partners was approved by the General Assembly Thursday and is expected to be signed into law

ANNAPOLIS – Citing a raft of legislation nearing passage in the General Assembly that they said would take the state in the wrong direction, House Republicans on Wednesday warned about what they called a “leftward tilt” in the state government

ANNAPOLIS – Despite nagging differences between the House and Senate, supporters of a ban on smoking in restaurants and bars said they are confident the bill will become law

ANNAPOLIS – It has been over seven years since the storied, 400-year-old Liberty Tree on the St

ANNAPOLIS – With less than two weeks left in the General Assembly session, legislators advocating immigrant issues have been generally successful in both passing bills they favor and defeating bills they oppose

ANNAPOLIS – Senate President Thomas V

ANNAPOLIS – Frustrated by a surge in electricity rates that a deregulation law was expected to prevent, a Maryland lawmaker is proposing a bill that would allow counties to purchase electricity wholesale and resell it to their residents at rates lower than the local utility charges

ANNAPOLIS – Rejecting Republican demands for more fiscal restraint, the Maryland House of Delegates on Wednesday trimmed $120 million from Gov