Former Maryland attorney general Douglas F. Gansler has named former Hyattsville mayor Candace Bacchus Hollingsworth as his running mate in his bid for Maryland governor.
Hollingsworth was elected in 2015 as the youngest and first Black mayor of Hyattsville, where she served before stepping down in December 2020 to develop Our Black Party, a national organization she co-founded to build the relationship between the Black community and the political system.
WTOP NEWS: A major foundation has pulled funding from CASA, the Maryland-based immigrants’ rights organization under fire for its recent pro-Palestinian tweets, and Jewish lawmakers are calling for a public apology. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, […]
As the July 1 deadline draws near, Maryland’s 24 jurisdictions continue to wrestle with how to locally implement the police accountability boards mandated by sweeping reform legislation passed in 2021. “We know that it’s coming,” […]
MARYLAND MATTERS: Melony G. Griffith, the new president of the Maryland Hospital Association who was the chair of the state Senate Finance Committee until late last fall, spread tens of thousands of dollars in funds […]
