Len Lazarick

Several thousand demonstrators lined the streets of downtown Columbia Saturday as part of the “No Kings” rallies across the country protesting President Donald Trump and his actions. Republican politicians had sought to portray the demonstrators in advance as people who “hate America.” But dozens of the hundreds of homemade protest placards pushed back on those […]

The following column appears in the August edition of The Business Monthly, serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties. Last year, there were three murders at the Columbia Mall – a double-homicide outside the mall and a murder in the food court. The murders of young men by other young men shocked the community and led […]

The following column appears in the May issue of The Business Monthly, serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties. I got a phone call from an old friend in the tech industry a week before the legislature closed up shop April 7. He wanted to know if the proposed 3% tax on IT services was a […]

Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of Okinawa, a remote tropical island the size of Prince George’s County.

Dan Rupli, lawyer, congressional candidate, civil rights enforcer and progressive activist, died Thursday at 82 from a fall and complications of dementia. Dan first came to prominence in 1976 when he mounted a liberal challenge to Rep. Goodloe Byron in the 6th Congressional District, a conservative Democrat Rupli came close to defeating in the primary. […]

This column appears in the March issue of The Business Monthly serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties. A half century ago, I spent a year in the belly of the federal bureaucracy at the Social Security Administration. I was a GS-7 in the Health Insurance Inquiries Branch of the Bureau of Health Insurance. That’s the […]

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 […]

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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.