Today: October 23, 2026
© 2017 Tracie Van Auken & Courtesy of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation There’s a thought experiment I want you to sit with for a moment. Let’s say you’re in Accident, Maryland — a real town in Garrett County, population just over…
There’s a pond tucked into the Jefferson National Forest just outside Blacksburg, Virginia called Pandapas Pond. If you’re from Southwest Virginia, you probably know about it. I went there as a little kid on daycare field trips, the kind where everyone’s just…
There are a lot of congressional primaries happening in 2026. Most of them are noise. But Maryland’s 6th Congressional District is not noise and here’s why. What’s playing out in MD-06 right now is a stress test for the entire Democratic Party…
Terra Energy, which owns the site of the former Dickerson Generating Station, has plans for the land to become the site of a data storage facility and data center campus. (Jerry Jackson/The Banner) There’s a reason Northern Virginia became the data center…
Here is something most people don’t know about me: I live with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Along with it come anxiety and depression. The problem? I look completely fine from the outside. I have a career, a family, and responsibilities. I show up for…
Rising steam partially obscures the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., September 24, 2023. Photo by Elizabeth Frantz/REUTERS I want to tell you something that took me years inside the federal government to fully understand. The machine isn’t broken. That’s the part…
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The median household of Americans 75+ has $50,000 in savings. A nursing home costs $127,750 a year. That gap is not a policy failure — it's the absence of any policy at all. America is the only developed nation with no universal…
Join me tonight at 8 pm for a virtual town hall on what this proposal means for our community: https://www.mdtownhall.com Here is what a 1,500-bed immigration processing facility in Williamsport actually means in practice. At an average hold of three to seven…
Elon Musk holds a chainsaw reading “Long live freedom, damn it” during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md., on Feb. 20. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Let’s skip the talking points and get to the math. By the…
