Local government

The anti-Harborplace redevelopment coalition, organized by attorney Thiru Vignarajah, faced a 4:30 deadline Monday to submit 10,000 signatures to Baltimore elections officials.

The Howard County Council voted Monday to approve a resolution needed to get a proposed inspector general office on November’s ballot.

The federally subsidized apartment complex in Southwest Baltimore County has been a prolific source of complaints from residents — for years, if not decades.

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

A clash between Anne Arundel County Orphans Court judges and the conviction of a register of wills on a misconduct charge underscore the need to reform the system that presides over the administration of estates.

At one facility, on Bowley’s Lane, workers had to ask a supervisor for toilet paper every time they wished to use the bathroom — the supervisor kept it locked in a supply closet.

Renew Baltimore recently hired attorneys from the Thomas & Libowitz firm to sue after the city’s election board director rejected their petition to put the tax cut on the November ballot.

Some of Eric Costello’s errors were self-inflicted. One voter said his endorsement of Sheila Dixon for mayor “betrayed the public trust.”

The proposal would reduce the council to eight members from 14, plus a president elected citywide. City attorneys have made clear that if two successful charter amendments are completely contradictory, both will be thrown out.

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

Carroll J. “Fitz” Fitzgerald, a former Baltimore City Council member who survived a 1976 shooting rampage at a temporary City Hall office, has died. He was 89. Fitzgerald died July 8.

Baltimore County Inspector General Kelly Madigan found that 24 county employees were drawing pensions while collecting paychecks, and that some had done so for eight or nine years. The County Council often isn’t notified of such cases.

Dozens of people appeared at a Howard County Council meeting Monday evening to share their thoughts and concerns about a proposal to create the county’s first-ever Office of the Inspector General bill. They offered thoughts and concerns, but most speakers backed the idea.

A Q&A with Shawn MacInnes, the new president and CEO of the Columbia Association.

Under the Renew Baltimore amendment, the city’s property tax rate would have to decrease for seven consecutive years until it is at nearly half of its current level.

Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Videtta A. Brown said in a ruling the gas emissions that damaged Baltimore fall under the federal Clean Air Act.

Johns Hopkins and Baltimore City Councilwoman Odette Ramos say they’ve consulted attorneys following their back-and-forth over a proposed AI center, according to communications obtained by The Baltimore Banner.

The proposed charter amendment, if approved, would provide one-time payments of at least $1,000 to parents upon the birth or adoption of a child.

The state finished a yearlong process of determining who should stay on Medicaid, and ended with fewer from a year ago but more than pre-COVID.

The city now hopes to expand the whole-block model used in the tiny East Baltimore neighborhood to more parts of the city, perhaps using financing methods usually reserved for commercial developments.