Local government

Chad Williams, executive director of the West North Avenue Development Authority, remains in his position after being charged in his native Nevada with domestic battery earlier this month.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said the city will see a parade on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But staging a last-minute parade is no easy feat.

The bill follows a shooting last week at the Edmondson Village Shopping Center that left one Edmondson-Westside High School student dead.

Jason Mitchell cited family matters for leaving, but has faced intense criticism for matters such as recycling from some City Council members during his tenure.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has demanded the board of the public-private organization secure Drew Sawyer’s resignation by Jan. 15

City Council President Nick Mosby has selected attorney Robert Dashiell to represent him in his appeal of a ruling by Baltimore City’s ethics board, according to recent court filings.

In a "clarifying statement" released Friday afternoon, BOPA aid it did not have the authority to make "unilateral" decisions about canceling mayoral events.

The debate follows the prior school board’s efforts to dump an auditor who questioned its practices.

Mayor Brandon Scott outlined an array of targeted policy reforms as well as several funding requests for addressing vacancy, supporting the Baltimore Police Department and bolstering public safety.

The announcement was hardly surprising to Baltimore’s political class — the 37-year-old was widely viewed to be considering a run for citywide office. His campaign has $240,882.56 on hand, according to the most recent campaign finance records filed in late November.

Mayor Brandon Scott is expected to lay out his goals and priorities for the legislative session Thursday afternoon, and Baltimore’s top lobbyist said City Hall will focus on painting the Moore administration an “overall picture of what Baltimore’s holistic need is.”

First elected in 2018 to represent the area surrounding Randallstown and Owings Mills, Democratic Baltimore County Councilman Julian Jones will serve his fourth stint as chairman.

The project has drawn the ire of hundreds of people who have signed petitions, penned letters to elected leaders, protested at meetings with transit officials and picketed the proposal with signs warning: “NO APARTMENTS, NO COMPROMISE.”

At a press conference Monday, some called for residents in five villages to sign a petition asking the village councils to recall their elected leaders immediately.

A new vendor, First Transit, is taking over operation of the fleet

The transition represents a changing of the guard: Ebony Thompson is slated to become the first Black woman to permanently hold the position, as well as the first openly gay city solicitor, while Jim Shea’s retirement marks the end of the career of one of Maryland’s most prominent attorneys.

The statewide residential and commercial combined assessment increase beat 2022’s overall jump of 12% and is the highest year-over-year value hike in several years.

The Banner obtained a recording of a legal hearing on benefits theft offering an inside look into how the state deliberates reimbursing victims.

The open meetings compliance board says it lacks “investigatory powers” to determine whether the subcommittees were intended to obscure deliberations of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Ethics and Accountability from the public.

State Sen. Jill P. Carter and Del. Jheanelle K. Wilkins plan to introduce legislation that would prevent law enforcement officers convicted of felonies from collecting pensions, a move spurred by the news that a former longtime state parks official facing rape charges will begin collecting a $94,500 pension while in jail.