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Last weekend, crowds gathered on the streets of downtown Easton for the Chesapeake Fire & Ice Festival. Dozens of well carved ice sculptures decorated Easton’s historic district.

Comptroller Peter Franchot (D) this week announced that his agency is granting a limited, temporary waiver of estimated tax interest for farmers and fishermen who are impacted by provisions of

On April 1, 2018, when Thad Cochran retired after 40 years as a U.S. senator from Mississippi, he made history; Cochran was the last Republican in Congress to have ever voted to increase federal taxes. He had done so on Dec. 19, 1990, when Republican President George H.W. Bush, deeply concerned about the rising federal budget deficit, persuaded Cochran and 18 other Republican senators to join 35 Democratic colleagues (this was a different era, remember) and to vote to cut federal spending and t...

Regular readers of this space may recall that I believe Americans are the most optimistic of voters. Think about it: With the exception of those who were already here when

On Tuesday afternoon, while working at my desk, two things happened almost at once.