A little bit of everything
Len Lazarick was the founding editor and publisher of MarylandReporter.com and is currently the president of its nonprofit corporation and chairman of its board. He was formerly the State House bureau chief of the daily Baltimore Examiner from its start in April 2006 to its demise in February 2009.
The presidential election this year may well be determined in places like the neighborhood where I grew up in Croydon, Pennsylvania, an aging white working-class town in lower Bucks County, just north of Philadelphia.
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Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks scored a blowout against U.S. Rep. David Trone. It was hard to imagine her getting 54% of the vote when Trone plowed a ridiculous $60 million of his own money into the race, outspending her by at least 8 to 1. In a national record for self-funding, Trone will have spent more than $300 per vote in a losing cause.
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Making predictions about what politicians will do is pretty foolhardy, even when the prediction seems fairly safe. But readers and
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Larry Hogan has an executive personality. He likes being in charge, making things happen. He doesn’t like negotiating or even consulting with legislators, even with members of his own Republican Party.
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Aided by his privilege, connections, and status as a war hero, he eventually was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates, the U.S. House, and finally, the U.S. Senate, where he was an ally of Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Along the way, he becomes dangerously addicted to alcohol, which had plagued his own father and other family members.
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Probably more State House folks will remember Gary Alexander as the lead named partner of Alexander & Cleaver, once one of the major law and lobbying firms in Annapolis, rather than his three terms in the House of Delegates. The Prince George’s County Democrat ended his political career in 1994 as speaker-pro tem of the House.
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At his 2019 inaugural ball, Gov. Larry Hogan goofed around with a purple surfboard given to him by his State
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By Len Lazarick [email protected] With wrecking ball swinging and clouds of dust flying, Columbia’s first high-rise office building, the 52-year-old
Read moreI feel compelled to add my own little stream of memory to the flood of recollections surrounding the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination Friday.
Surely many under 55 must marvel at the way their elders hold onto this event and this flawed man.