Many of our readers are door-knocking or calling voters in Virginia. The following data suggests that your efforts are paying off.According to Real Clear Politics, Senator Obama is building a…
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Magna: Slots or Bust
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Magna Entertainment Corporation, owner of Laurel Park and Pimlico Race Course, is on the verge of bankruptcy. That fact drives its desperate push for slots at its two Maryland race…
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Palin Swift-Boats Obama
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This is the first step in what the Washington Post describes as a “fiercer strategy” by the McCain campaign against Barack Obama. Even the Associated Press says this tactic carries…
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The Washington Post’s Lisa Rein covered MPW’s most influential elected officials list, even using one of our sources’ quotes on Senator Brian Frosh. These lists have already had massive circulation…
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Sounding Off on Slots in Fells Point
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Stop Slots Maryland activists went to the Fells Point Festival to talk to Marylanders about slots. Here is what they had to say.
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Guest Blog: Maryland’s “Bridge to Nowhere”
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By Frank Anastasi. The State of Maryland is about to take a definitive move on the planned Rockville District Courthouse on October 15 when the Department of General Services (DGS)…
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Pom-Poms for Palin
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By Sharon Dooley. Sarah Palin was perky and folksy during the VP debate and, as she has said: “comin’ at cha!” Maybe the gray heads running McCain’s campaign found that…
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C&O National Historical Park Damage
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By Marc Korman. The Gazette recently reported that the popular towpath at the C&O National Historical Park suffered major damage as a result of Tropical Storm Hanna. As a result,…
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Ike, We Need You at Home
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Ike Leggett is a good man and I have written favorably about him in the past. But someone is seriously leading him astray in advising him that now is a…
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Our respondents collectively nominated 171 individuals as the most influential non-elected people in Montgomery County. Of these people, 108 received just one vote and 22 received two. To make it…