Local government

A cluster of Baltimore City politicians, advisers and activists are quietly working behind the scenes to convince voters to reject Question K, a ballot measure that would limit City Hall officials to two terms in office.

The extension more than doubles the city’s payments to the consulting firm, which was brought in to assist in managing and monitoring a broad slate of Scott administration goals.

Mayor Brandon Scott’s administration is pursuing a $50,000 contract tied to the city’s conduit system that current and former City Hall officials say puts the network at risk of a sale.

McDonough pledged to file lawsuits challenging county policies if elected, while Olszewski outlined steps his administration has taken to address crime.

Mosby said the quiet period is consistent with his campaign strategy, which is to ramp up fundraising and events closer to Election Day.

The new map has drawn scrutiny over its implications for community policing, but official's say the revised districts will help to balance the law enforcement workload.

High inflation, labor shortages and a persistent supply chain crunch could stress Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott’s plans to use federal pandemic aid to make infrastructure improvements.

A combination of three factors stemming from old water infrastructure compromised the safety of the city’s system ahead of the recent contamination.

A new proposal before the Baltimore City Council could dramatically rewrite the city’s building regulations, banning single-family zoning policies that advocates argue have driven housing scarcity and more than a century of segregation.

While nearly every local government in Maryland took federal COVID relief money, three tiny towns chose not to.

Whether activists and politicians want to admit it, public buildings are not the place for affirming the sexuality of students, teachers, or anybody else.

Two months after the primary, Maryland’s electorate has coalesced behind party nominees in the general election race to succeed term-limited Gov. Larry Hogan, but at the same time, held firm on some issues, such as their opinions of President Biden and former president Trump, their frustration with inflation and their attitudes toward abortion.

The series tapped into the cultural zeitgeist to a degree unprecedented for a podcast, spawning "Saturday Night Live" parodies and a true crime phenomenon that continues to this day.

The city's top public works official told council members that there were many "lessons learned" in last week's response to bacteria contamination in the Baltimore water system.

“These children are often abused or neglected and this is how the state is choosing to raise them,” one attorney said.

With an average age of 75 years, Baltimore’s old water pipes have become increasingly vulnerable to the kinds of contamination that occurred last week.

Consumer advocates have complained for years that renters cannot easily view these bills, making them susceptible to bogus charges from landlords.

It was in Baltimore that a Johns Hopkins-trained sanitary engineer developed the methods to disinfect municipal water systems and pipe clean, safe drinking water across a city.

Baltimore officials lifted Friday morning a five-day boil water advisory after the latest string of water tests came back negative for evidence of E. coli and coliform in city water.

Councilwoman Odette Ramos is eager to make municipal IDs a reality six years after the Baltimore City Council approved the idea.