With three new members joining Dec. 1, plus a new president also coming on board, the rate of turnover on the Harford County Council still won't be that much different from prior post-election changes.
Governor-elect Larry Hogan told technology entrepreneurs Wednesday they would "have a friend in the governor's mansion" come January.
As news of victory or defeat rolled in at watch parties, through TV sets and on Twitter, candidates and their supporters traded on gut feelings, turnout numbers and observations gathered at the polls to explain Election Day results.
The O'Malley administration backed down Wednesday from its proposal to lease a Kent County farm to a politically connected nonprofit for $1 a year, promising to rebid the contract competitively.
Gov.-elect Larry Hogan named a widely respected former state senator to his transition team Wednesday, the same day experts warned that Maryland's budget will require about $900 million in belt-tightening.
Howard County Executive-elect Allan Kittleman on Wednesday announced the remaining 12 members of his transition team and discussed their task as he prepares to take office Dec. 1.
Governor-elect's company likely to fall under rules on financial interests and conflicts
Congress returns this week to a changed atmosphere after the Republican midterm election sweep — but before any new agenda is launched, old business must be finished.
Amid a tide of Republican victories in Maryland, Kevin Kamenetz is one of the Baltimore region's blue survivors.
Gov.-elect Larry Hogan said he will wait until after his inauguration next year to discuss policy plans for his new administration.
Although residents of Washington voted overwhelmingly in favor of legalizing marijuana this week — a move that could put penalty-free pot within an hour's drive of Baltimore — the ballot initiative faces an uncertain future.
Gov. Martin O’Malley’s chief of staff is scheduled this afternoon to hold the first meeting with a representative for Gov.-elect Larry Hogan to begin the transition process following the Republican’s upset victory on Tuesday.
Presidents from Harry Truman to Bill Clinton have turned to foreign policy in their final months in office when their domestic agendas have been stymied. For Barack Obama, that overseas pivot may offer little relief.
As President Obama announced Saturday that he would nominate U.S. Atty. Loretta Lynch to be the nation’s next attorney general, obstacles had already begun to appear on the path toward her confirmation.
With Maryland's long campaign for governor now over, the unexpected election of Republican businessman Larry Hogan has given rise to an intense new campaign now just beginning: the jockeying among advocates and interest groups for attention, jobs and influence in a rare GOP administration.
Many Baltimore Democrats weren't wild about Anthony Brown as their candidate for governor, a review of city voting records makes clear.
The unexpectedly tight contest for control of Maryland's westernmost House district was decided Friday — more than two days after polls closed — when the Republican challenger conceded the race to Democratic incumbent Rep. John Delaney.
Republicans surged forward in prominence in Maryland's election Tuesday, and nowhere was that more apparent than in eastern Baltimore County.
As Republicans cast about looking for measures that might meet the definition of what Sen. Mitch McConnell called "common ground" with Democrats, there's an obvious candidate to emerge from the midterm elections. It's an idea that won broad support from the electorate as red as South Dakota and...
(UPDATE: Ben Carson biography film will air in Baltimore at 2 p.m. Saturday on WBFF-TV Fox 45.)
Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown's loss to Larry Hogan for Maryland governor has put the spotlight on Brown's boss -- current Democratic governor Martin O'Malley and his presidential aspirations. Pundits wonder whether O'Malley would be the party's best shot at keeping the White House if he couldn't...
Months before Tuesday's general election, Barry Glassman was getting ready to be Harford's next county executive.
When the African American Delta Sigma Theta sorority chapter was established at Harvard College in 1980, its first members included two undergraduates named Loretta Lynch and Sharon Malone.
Harford County executive-elect Barry Glassman's transition team includes many of his political mentors, some key supporters and advisors and some likely appointees in his new administration.
Larry Hogan won his race for governor not just because Marylanders of both parties turned out to support his call for lower taxes, but because tens of thousands of Democrats in key jurisdictions stayed home.
After investing millions of dollars in data, analytics and their ground game in an attempt to avoid the bruising losses of the 2012 election cycle, Republicans faced a key test Tuesday: Could they match the Democrats' vaunted turnout operation?
Maybe the campaign magic is in the barbecue sauce.
A relaxed and joking Republican Gov.-elect Larry Hogan told reporters Wednesday he would create a bi-partisan administration and credited his upset win to listening to voter frustration.
Jeff Gahler, the Harford County Sheriff-elect, plans to not only conduct a "bottom-to-the-top" assessment of the Harford County Sheriff's Office when he takes office Dec. 1, but also work with allies on the state level to repeal strict gun control legislation passed by the Maryland General...
Anthony G. Brown's loss in Maryland's gubernatorial election was an unexpected setback for state Democrats — but it also represented a possible problem for the party's patriarch, Gov. Martin O'Malley, as he eyes a campaign for president in 2016.
Who won big and who lost badly in Maryland on Tuesday?
WASHINGTON — The Republican takeover of the Senate could be good news for at least one Democrat: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Larry Hogan's win over Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown for Maryland governor was considered a surprise by many, and part of a Republican sweep across the country during the midterm election. Here's what's being said around the web about how the victory fits into the larger national political...
Republican Alex Mooney, who left Maryland after losing his seat in the Maryland Senate in 2010, made a political comeback Tuesday in his new state of West Virginia by winning a seat in Congress.
Yumi Hogan would be Maryland's first Asian-American first lady
President Obama acknowledged Wednesday that he was disappointed with the wave of losses that Democrats endured in the midterm elections but said he viewed the result as a sign that Americans want change in Washington and want elected officials to "get stuff done," rather than as a repudiation...
Although Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Shawn Quinn received just 1.4 percent of the vote Tuesday, it was enough to retain ballot access for the Maryland Libertarian Party in 2016.
As expected, other parts of the country had most of the fun on Election Day 2014. In Maryland, the biggest race was for governor, and I wouldn't exactly call it fun.
Joints, pot brownies, cannabis–dosed sodas and other marijuana products will soon be sold in retail shops to any adult who wants them throughout a large chunk of the West, after voters in Oregon and Alaska approved legalization measures Tuesday.
As he made his way around Kentucky on the eve of Tuesday’s election, Mitch McConnell was asked why he thought this reelection campaign was proving to be so close. “I don’t think we know how close it’s going to be yet,” he coolly replied.