Len Lazarick

I was having breakfast with a Maryland developer on the beachfront patio of a Florida country club 28 years ago when I learned that taxes have economic consequences. Between jobs in journalism, I was doing a newsletter for a new venture the man had set up in Florida.

REMEMBERING JIMMY CARTER: As word spread Sunday that Jimmy Carter, the nation’s 39th president, had died, many in Maryland turned to social media to share their reactions. Here’s a compilation of their remarks. Baltimore Sun staff A photo gallery of decades worth of Sun photos of Jimmy Carter. Carter’s legacy in Baltimore includes hundreds of […]

Maryland Reporter will not be endorsing any political candidates this year or any other, even if we wanted to. But we don’t.

U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin leaves public office in January after 58 years -- 20 years in the Maryland House of Delegates, 20 years in U.S. House and 18 years in the U.S. Senate.  On Sept. 12, Len Lazarick of Maryland Reporter had a 38-minute face-to-face interview with him in his Capitol Hill office. Here is a lightly edited version of that conversation.

How many times can your heart be broken over the latest tragedy? Pick a tragedy – workers on Key Bridge, children, aid workers, journalists, pretty much everyone in Gaza, the victims of the latest mass shooting.Did you really think about the victims? To whom did you pray?

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Listen to this article Happy New Year! Here are the top stories we found week and a final pitch for our NewsMatch fundraising drive. We’ll be back Tuesday morning, Jan. 3 The unexpected and truly awful news this week was the meltdown of Southwest Airlines at BWI and across the country. It stranded thousands of […]

Towson University last week named a lecture hall for longtime rhetoric professor Richard Vatz, who is retiring this month as he turns 76 on Wednesday.The auditorium-style Room 204 in Van Bokkelen Hall has long been the venue for Vatz’s popular Persuasion class. Throughout the years, Vatz has presented the class with many guest lecturers, mostly politicians and public figures.