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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 1h

The Banner’s poll was conducted by Steve Raabe of OpinionWorks and you can check the results here:

www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

More poll results and stories are coming this week, so stay tuned.

Read the results of The Baltimore Banner’s statewide poll

The poll contacted 928 registered Maryland voters between Oct. 7-10. It has a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points.

www.thebanner.com

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 1h

📊 We’ve got a new Maryland poll! 📊

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s approval is 54%.

We also asked folks an open-ended question about Moore’s accomplishments and they struggled to name any.

Read more:

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Banner poll: 54% approval for Moore, but voters can’t identify his accomplishments

While a majority of Marylanders approve of the job Gov. Wes Moore is doing, they struggle to identify his achievements and offer only soft support, according to a new statewide poll from The Banner.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 1d

That definitely fits their pattern then. I didn't realize Dems hadn't run anyone there in recent elections.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 1d

House 33B is one that's already on my radar. It's quite purple there. The Republican won by less than 300 votes in 2022.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 1d

Maryland Democrats hold all statewide offices, 2/3 of the state legislature, county execs/mayor in the largest jurisdictions.

They want more.

Enter "Contest Every Seat," an effort to put Dems up and down the ballot, even in the reddest counties.

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Maryland Democrats want a candidate in every 2026 race

An initiative dubbed “Contest Every Seat” aims to fill ballots across the state with Democratic candidates for the House of Delegates, state Senate, county councils and county commissions.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 4d

In picking a new budget secretary, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore turned to someone with deep knowledge and extensive relationships in the State House: Yaakov "Jake" Weissmann, who served as chief of staff to 2 Senate presidents.

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Moore picks longtime Dem strategist to head budget office

Weissmann was chief of staff for two Democratic Senate presidents: current President Bill Ferguson and the late, longtime President Thomas V. Mike Miller, from Prince George’s County.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Col. Roland Butler is -out- as superintendent of the Maryland State Police. And state Sen. Michael A. Jackson (a former sheriff) is -in- as Gov. Moore's new pick to lead troopers.

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Maryland State Police Secretary Butler is out

Col. Roland L. Butler Jr., the first Black person to lead the agency, is out as Maryland State Police secretary, with a former Prince George’s County sheriff and state senator tapped as his replacemen...

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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 9d

No Moore vs. Wes Moore: The account using AI to troll the governor now has a PAC

“What we’re seeing from No Moore is what people hate about politics,” Gov. Wes Moore said.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 12d

SCOOP from @brendawintrode.bsky.social: In the national redistricting one-upsmanship, Maryland House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones says she’s ready to redraw the state’s Congressional map, currently 7D-1R.

The latest on the conversations in Annapolis:

www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Maryland House speaker says ‘now is the time’ to take up congressional redistricting

“Now is the time to have conversations about redistricting in Maryland,” Adrienne A. Jones told The Banner. “He has a ready and an eager and a willing partner in me.”

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 14d

The federal government is shut down, and there's a lot at risk for Maryland and Marylanders.

From @brendawintrode.bsky.social & me:

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Senate can’t agree on a spending plan, putting Maryland’s federal workforce at risk

It’s unclear, with the House of Representatives adjourned until next week, when lawmakers could consider their next moves to reopen the government.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 15d

📉The numbers are in: Maryland's state government workforce will shrink by 500 positions, a combination of workers taking buyouts and vacant positions being eliminated.

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State trimming 500 jobs through buyouts, eliminating vacancies

With hundreds of jobs eliminated, Maryland’s state budget will see $47 million in savings annually.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 15d

NEW: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore plans to shut down one of the state’s aging prisons in Jessup, moving inmates and staffers to other facilities rather than spending hundreds of millions of dollars on repairs.

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Maryland to close one of Jessup’s prisons

The Maryland Correctional Institution-Jessup will close and 700 men incarcerated at the facility, along with 300 staff, will be transferred to other facilities by June.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 16d

Maryland’s Democrats in Congress say they don’t want a shutdown but have joined the partisan deadlock over how to fund the government past Tuesday.

Maryland’s sole Republican places blame squarely on the Dems.

From @brendawintrode.bsky.social & me:

www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Maryland will pay a price whether there's a federal shutdown or not

Maryland and its Democrat-dominated congressional delegation sit in the crosshairs of the federal government spending fight.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 19d

💸 There’s a new financial forecast out, and for the first time in awhile, the news on the Maryland state government’s finances is non-terrible.

Still, plenty of uncertainty lies ahead.

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Maryland’s latest budget update isn’t terrible

Maryland is slightly behind expectations for the current budget year but can expect the budget to grow slightly for next year, according to the state’s latest round of financial forecasting.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 20d

I was there today for an event marking the completion of a Verizon project, actually. Great cell service with Verizon. But I think it’s the kind of place where there’s great human interaction, even with working cell phones.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 20d

I love Smith Island cake!

Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 20d

It was really cool. This house made great use of buoys/floats as outdoor decor.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 20d

yes, similar vibe! I’ve been to Tangier before, but this was my first time in Smith Island.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 20d

🦀 48th J. Millard Tawes Crab & Clam Bake

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 20d

🦀 48th J. Millard Tawes Crab & Clam Bake

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 20d

📍Smith Island, Maryland

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 22d

The Green Party candidates for Maryland governor and lieutenant governor are candid that they aren't really in it to win it.

But that doesn't mean they don't have important goals for 2026.

📸: Kaitlin Newman

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Maryland’s Green Party isn’t in it to win it

“We’re not going to go and set expectations that we don’t think we can meet,” says Andy Ellis of Baltimore. Gubernatorial candidate Ellis and running mate Owen Silverman Andrews aim to rack up votes, ...

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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 22d

New ‘Capital Gazette Five’ highway markers remind: ‘It’s still dangerous to tell the truth.’

New ‘Capital Gazette Five’ highway markers remind of the potential cost of the truth

New highway markers along Rowe Boulevard pay homage to the five Capital Gazette employees killed during a 2018 mass shooting in the Annapolis newsroom. Some said there’s a deeper meaning to the signage.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 24d

Happy National Gymnastics Day! Adults can do gymnastics, too.

#NGD2025 @usagym.org

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 25d

ICYMI: An audit uncovered significant failures in Maryland's child welfare system, including registered sex offenders living at the same homes as foster kids, as well as foster kids not getting required medical care:

From me & @brendawintrode.bsky.social:

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State failed to keep sex offenders away from foster children, audit finds

Maryland failed to protect children under state care from being placed in homes where registered sex offenders lived. It’s one of numerous findings listed in an audit out Wednesday.

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