Prince George's voters to choose Alsobrooks successor during critical time
Among the 11 candidates vying in a pair of special elections Tuesday to become Prince George’s County’s next top elected official, a consensus has emerged: Maryland’s second-largest county is on the edge of an economic crisis.
The county’s budget deficit is expected to grow to $247 million over the next six years after pandemic-era federal funds have dried up while the cost of funding schools and other services has escalated — a situation that could grow worse amid ongoing federal spending cuts.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s steps to dramatically reduce the nation’s federal workforce will be felt particularly hard in Prince George’s, where generations of federal workers have helped form an enclave of predominantly middle-class Black families just outside D.C.
Those factors and the uncertainty hovering over some major economic development projects — most notably, plans to move the FBI’s headquarters to Greenbelt — make the March 4 special primary elections to fill the county executive’s seat vacated by Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D) critical in the heavily Democratic county of roughly half a million residents.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/01/prince-georges-special-elections-alsobrooks/