This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.

Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighborhoods, and ever-expanding economic opportunity. These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.

I don't pay any attention to what the Baltimore Sun editorial page says about anything.

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research.

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

I generally believe in polls. Scientific polls are accurate.