Maryland: Joe Biden

Gary Gensler, a Democratic fund-raiser and policymaker from Baltimore, will be sworn in today as head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Vice President Joe Biden will do the honors this afternoon in a private ceremony. Gensler's agency oversees trading...

Or maybe it was the other way around. Gov. Martin O'Malley was one of five state executives on a conference call today with Vice President Joe Biden, whose job includes keeping tabs on the progress of the $787 billion stimulus...

A Landover Dispatch from the Baltimore Sun's Laura Smitherman: Vice President Joe Biden — and his mother, apparently — quite like Gov. Martin O’Malley. Biden, in an Earth Day appearance in Landover, heaped praise on the Maryland governor, saying the...

--Richard E. Vatz

About President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Non-State of the Union Address, a few observations:

1. There are some certain verities which will last throughout the Obama presidency: this is one of the fine presidential speakers of the last 50 years, a list which includes, in order of appearance, presidents Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton, and now Obama. Of these presidents, Reagan and Obama tend -- \tend\ -- not to generate hatred because they are perceived as sincere and non-devious.

2. President Obama had what could be understated as the most ambitious agenda ever forwarded in a State of the Union Address, which, at least officially, this was not: a stimulus package which will effect the United States’ rebuilding and recovering and our being “stronger than before.