Local government

The report highlights many problems agencies had already been dinged for in previous years, with numerous issues surfacing in audits dating back as far as 2017.

Staff turnover, fueled by the coronavirus pandemic, has affected how efficiently the office runs, the homeless agency’s leader told City Council. The agency is tasked with overseeing large amounts of money from the federal government, a challenge even with more staffing and resources than the office has now.

This massive bill has accrued because, while the housing authority has been paying some of its water bill to the city it has not been paying them in full, staff from both the housing authority and the Department of Public Works told the inspector general’s office.

“It hurts us more when kids are the ones perpetrating or falling victim, because we feel like we failed them,” said state Del. Luke Clippinger, a Baltimore Democrat who is leading a review of whether juvenile laws need adjusting.

A shooting incident near a popular Hampden skate park ended with a chaotic arrest Monday afternoon as dozens of students departing a nearby high school looked on.

After years of the nonprofit that runs the state fair “living paycheck to paycheck,” Brewster said, he organized volunteers in fundraising campaigns and advocated in the State House to raise more than $10 million.

Surrounded by union workers in Baltimore on Saturday, the governor and mayor pledged to refill the ranks of government employees but offered little evidence of the progress they’re making.

A federal jury found this week that two Anne Arundel County politicians owe a former worker at a gym they co-own nearly $5,000 after she said she was improperly fired.

As Sheila Dixon begins her third run for Baltimore City mayor since she resigned from office in 2010, the landscape looks markedly different than it did in the past two cycles.

Dixon enters the race well-known to many city voters as the first female mayor of Baltimore, who exited a productive term in office in disgrace following a conviction of embezzlement in 2009 after she took gift cards intended for the poor. She stepped down in 2010 after pleading guilty to perjury in a separate case.

Baltimore’s spending board considered more than $9 million worth of urgent requests or retroactive emergency items on Wednesday, an unusual pileup that comes as government operations remain frequently stymied by a dysfunctional purchasing system.

Facing a veto threat, Baltimore County Councilman Patrick “Pat” Young tabled plastic bag ban amendments Tuesday evening, saying he wanted a chance to weigh in on amending the law.

The Department of Justice and Baltimore County reached an agreement over alleged sexual harassment in the county’s fire department.

The implications for this breakdown are lasting: Housing and Urban Development, which funds millions of dollars worth of homelessness eradication projects in Baltimore every year, considers how well grant recipients comply with funding rules before awarding more in subsequent years.

Every citizen can help address the root causes that lead to violent crime in Baltimore, says Karl W. Bickel, who has worked in law enforcement at federal, county and local levels.

The former Destiny's Child singer, scheduled to perform Sept. 22 at one of the festival’s outdoor stages, had been announced as the headliner earlier in August.

Because utilities are not typically able to earn a return on investment from assets like the conduit that they don’t own, David Lapp with the Office of the People’s Counsel called the arrangement a “monopoly company’s gambit” to benefit its investors at the expense of its customers.

In calling a no confidence vote, the union described concerns of intimidation from management, bullying, harassment, micromanagement, lack of support for emergency medical services workers and violations of the department’s standard operating procedures.

The Baltimore Police Department defended its cleanup of the Brooklyn Homes crime scene. Experts have said it was flawed.

Mayor Brandon Scott and agency leaders accepted blame and promised to hold people accountable for the July 2 shooting that killed two and injured 28.