Congress is about to vote on a bill that mixes two things together. Both parts are a problem, and holding one hostage to the other is not how a fair government should work.
Witnesses say ICE agents broke a young man's neck arresting him on Kent Island. Weeks later, his family still can't find him, and Queen Anne's County is deciding whether to deepen its ties to the same agency.
Maryland's redistricting fight just hit a turning point: the state's highest court kept Question 3 on your ballot but ordered the wording rewritten. We're tracking it in one page.
Imagine your local election office does everything right. It processes your mail ballot request, gets your ballot ready, and takes it to the post office to mail to your house. Then the post office says it needs to check a federal list first.
That is basically what is happening right now with a new U.S. Postal Service rule, and a whistleblower says the system built to run it was thrown together so fast it might not even work. That might sound like a technical mailing dispute between two government agencies. It's not. It's about whether your ballot gets to your mailbox on time this November.
Maryland's Supreme Court rules Thursday on whether the Eastern Shore's congressional seat gets redrawn.
As Washington moves civil rights enforcement out of the Department of Education, who actually checks on a new school like QACCS just got more complicated. We break down what changed, and why it matters locally.
A new federal rule could get your mail ballot rejected before anyone even looks at your vote. Twenty-five states, including Maryland, just sued the Postal Service to stop it before the midterms. Here's what the rule requires, what both sides are arguing, and what you can do now to protect your own ballot.
Beyond the QACCS story: what supporters and critics of this fast-growing school model are actually fighting about, from funding to federal oversight to how race and history get taught.
Second GOP lawsuit against Maryland's redistricting constitutional amendment, filed August 10 in Dorchester County, using the same national law firm (BakerHostetler) that advised the Louisiana redistricting effort behind the Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais decision. Aug 25 hearing in Annapolis; Aug 31 ballot certification deadline.
A local group wants to bring a fast-growing national school model to QAC. Here's the curriculum, the money, and the questions still unanswered, no spin, just the facts you need to follow the story.
A Trump-aligned billionaire owns Maryland's biggest newspaper. This year, its reporting team started building a case against the Governor, using a team that isn't made up of trained journalists. Here's how to tell the difference between journalism and a campaign, and what it means for how you read the news.
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Since our last Dispatch, Moore signed the redistricting amendment and Republicans sued to keep it off the ballot entirely.
This past Thursday, August 6, marked sixty one years since LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act. Today, the League of Women Voters and dozens of partners are marking the anniversary with "Unite & Rise for Voting Rights," 350+ events nationwide. Good Trouble Circle isn't hosting one, but we didn't want it to pass you by.
