Joan Carter Conway

Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to make it easier for veterans and their spouses to work in Maryland received warm reviews Tuesday from lawmakers and the Defense Department, but nurses suggested it could leave patients in the hands of unqualified workers....

Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller said this afternoon that the governor's bill to limit septic systems will face strong opposition from other Democrats when it is debated later this week. "It is going to be dicey, very dicey," Miller told reporters....

To its supporters, Gov. Martin O'Malley's Plan Maryland is a long-overdue effort to bring Maryland's disparate programs to promote Smart Growth under one consolidated plan with an agreed-upon set of rules. To its detractors, the plan is a naked power grab...

Former Del. Kenneth L. Webster, who led the battle for and wrote the historic legislation that made the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a legal state holiday in Maryland, died Friday of kidney failure at the Baltimore Veteran Administration Medical...

The incumbent ditched a mayoral bid at the last minute, deciding instead to try to hang on to his seat representing parts of Charles Village, Oliver, Remington and Station North. His challengers include a community activist who hopes to be the...

Keolis can bid for the contract to run the Camden and Brunswick MARC commuter rail lines ("Holocaust rail fight moves to Congress," Sept. 25). The survivors and descendants of those herded into cattle cars destined for Nazi concentration camps by the...

Legislation to name things in Maryland — including renaming two mountains — has come to a halt. A state Senate committee decided Tuesday to turn down a series of bills requesting days and months honoring groups and individual people. Also...

Light moments amid the renaming battle The movement to rename Negro and Polish mountains in Western Maryland is mainly from lawmakers in Baltimore City and metropolitan D.C. counties. The four legislators representing Allegany and Garrett counties...

Western Maryland lawmakers Tuesday defended the names of Negro and Polish mountains, trying to torpedo a Baltimore City state senator's attempt to "fix" history. The name battle has been a lively side issue in a legislative session dominated by budget...

On the Original Beer in Baltimore Alexander Mitchell IV has the final beer list for this weekend's Belgian Beer Fest VII at Max's on Broadway.The Eat. Swim. Shop. blogger gets a hankering for Eastern Carolina barbecue sauce and so makes......

"The biggest thing this does, it removes a cloud that has been in existence over the city since she was convicted. ... The credibility of the office was hurting. ... You can't govern being convicted." Clarence M. Mitchell IV, WBAL-Radio talk show host...