Wes Moore

Ayman Nassar said he withdrew from Maryland's hate crime commission after an “online harassment and smear campaign was launched” against him.

Gov. Wes Moore’s remarks came at the close of the Maryland Association of Counties annual conference, which draws thousands of local and state officials to the beach to hash out policy issues, along with an unofficial roster of political fundraisers and receptions.

City officials said they are committed to publicly sharing the results of the workplace review.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore came close to upstaging the main act, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, with his warm-up performance.

The raucous event marked the first time the pair appeared together since Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race against Republican Donald Trump and endorsed Kamala Harris and also spotlighted two Maryland politicians with rising national profiles

The new proposal for transit-oriented development next to the Lutherville light rail stop calls for even more apartments than before.

Since 2019, the Maryland agency responsible for investigating unsafe work environments initiated only 32 inspections into employers reported for heat stress-related issues, according to data obtained by The Baltimore Banner.

“iWitness: Media & the Movement” is a new exhibit that launches Thursday at The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History & Culture. The yearlong exhibit coincides with the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

A federal judge who previously temporarily blocked some of the state’s restrictions on the concealed carry of guns has made that block permanent.

So far the reception from state leaders has been lukewarm and city budget officials have also pushed back, according to emails and other communications obtained in a public records request.

Montgomery County lawmakers want to establish a pilot program that would automatically ticket drivers if their vehicles are making excessive noise via unlawfully modified exhaust systems.

They’re now applying the infectious, youthful energy they captured working on the Kamala Harris campaign throughout Maryland — often in the political sphere.

“I have expressed that I love my job and I have no intention of leaving,” Moore told reporters in Washington on Monday.

“She will have the unique ability to energize the Democratic Party base and mobilize a unique coalition, and we must rally around her and elect her to serve as the next President of the United States,” Moore wrote in his endorsement.

”The party can test it at their own peril,” said Democratic fundraiser Karen Miller

With President Joe Biden announcing Sunday that he won’t run for re-election after all, all eyes are turning to the next generation of Democrats, including Maryland Gov. Wes Moore.

Elected officials and advocates in Maryland fear a grid operator, PJM Interconnection, is in no hurry to comply with a federal order that aims to expedite clean energy projects.

Marylanders awoke Friday to widespread reports of a global technology outage disrupting transportation, courts, tolls, some of the state’s hospital systems and local governments.

Rising enrollment in Medicaid and the Child Care Scholarship Program led Gov. Wes Moore to propose budget cuts in order to keep those programs funded.

With lost revenue because of the bridge collapse and uncertainty over whether Congress will pay the whole amount to rebuild it, the toll increase will take place a year earlier than planned, a spokesman said.