“I am truly humbled and honored to be selected by President Ferguson to serve as Chair of the Senate’s new Committee on Education, Energy, and the Environment. I am excited by the membership makeup of this new Committee and that it will have jurisdiction over many of the most pressing issues fac...

We bookend our Conversations with HJM series from the MACo Summer Conference with the second part of Lisa Harris Jones’ and Tommy Tompsett’s interview with Wes Moore, the Democratic nominee for Maryland Governor. Moore explores a range of topics, including how to get the most out of the federal ...

The Conversations with HJM series rolls on with Dr. Mileah Kromer, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Sarah T. Hughes Center for Politics at Goucher College. Dr. Kromer gives an academic perspective of the Maryland electorate, former President Donald Trump’s and Governor Hogan’s ap...

Up next on our Conversations with HJM series is Maryland State Treasurer Dereck Davis.  Reflecting on his decades of public service, Treasurer Davis covers a wide range of topics, including the importance of relationships in politics; Maryland’s Board of Public Works; the issues leading into the ...

The Democratic Nominee for Maryland Comptroller, Delegate Brooke Lierman, joins Lisa Harris Jones and Tommy Tompsett for our Conversations with HJM series. Delegate Lierman covers a wide range of topics including her optimism in becoming Maryland’s first female state-wide elected official; how she...

Speaker Adrienne Jones covers many topics, including what initially motivated her to public service; what it’s like to work with a Governor from the same party as opposed to a different party; the Redline transportation project in Baltimore City; her historical selection to be the Speaker of the H...

Congressman Anthony Brown sits down with Lisa Harris Jones and Thomas Tompsett as our Conversations with HJM series from the MACo Summer Conference continues. As the Democratic nominee for Maryland Attorney General, Congressman Brown talks about how he envisions his role as Attorney General; the ref...

Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson takes time from his busy schedule at the MACo Summer Conference to join Lisa Harris Jones and Thomas Tompsett Jr. for our Conversations with HJM Series. Senate President Ferguson covers a lot of topics including the upcoming general election and how “this el...

Our Conversations with HJM series continues with Maryland Candidate Spotlights from the Maryland Association of Counties’ (MACo) Summer Conference in Ocean City, Maryland. First up is part one of a two-part conversation with the Democratic Nominee for Governor of the State of Maryland, Wes Moo...

“I fell in love with this job while I was serving in an interim role…so I threw my name in the hat and became the President of the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore. I didn’t know that at the time I chose public service, but I knew it was where my heart belonged.” Conversations w...