Local government

The Maryland Child Alliance is trying to gather enough signatures for a ballot measure that would give new parents who give birth or adopt a child a one-time $1,000 cash payment.

We are in a season of replacements, of dominos lined up for the chain reaction fall. As many as six political vacancies in Annapolis either have been filled or will be by early next year. It’s a rare moment of political instability, and voters will have almost no say in the outcome.

Petitioners filed more than 23,000 signatures on Thursday, far more than the proposal needs to appear on November’s ballot.

Rachel D. Graham, BOPA’s CEO, said she isn’t concerned about the possible lapse in funding, citing confidence in the city’s commitment to “doing what’s best” for city artists.

Howard County officials on Tuesday broke ground on a project to add an indoor pool at the North Laurel Community Center, ending a decadeslong wait.

City leaders, health care providers and law enforcement can work together to provide treatment, prevention and other strategies to confront Baltimore’s drug overdose crisis, directors of health and public innovation efforts at Johns Hopkins University say.

A Baltimore spokesperson said that Mace was released after two groups of people got into an altercation, but people who attended think something else happened.

Baltimore County Public Schools announced it is redistricting for the sixth time in two years.

Baltimore County Councilman Izzy Patoka said he immediately regretted dissing Glen Burnie and he apologized.

The City Council didn’t introduce a single amendment to the mayor’s proposed budget.

Baltimore voters who might've passed up the opportunity to cast their ballots during the primaries must fully participate in November because of what's at stake nationally, journalist and professor E.R. Shipp says.

The proposed charter amendment would ban residential development, buildings taller than 100 feet and other “private use inconsistent with the parks’ public nature” in the Inner Harbor and 19 other city parks.

The Anne Arundel County Council has adopted a $2.31 billion budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

The stench can be overpowering. A rotten egg cloud so sour it causes headaches and watery eyes. Residents weep as they describe the feelings of nausea and helplessness, sick with the frustration of suffering this miasma.

Continued harm-reduction efforts and improved prevention strategies are needed to address Baltimore's drug overdose crisis, professors with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health say.

CSX argues that many of the methods deployed by the community’s researchers, including low-cost air quality monitors, tape strips and statistical models, were flawed.

Baltimore County Executive says he stands ready to compromise on a better bill.

One of the last people to see Devon Wellington alive, before he overdosed in 2021, has developed a relationship with the man’s mother. She taught him how to use Narcan, and they recently attended a street renaming event together.

Revenue from property taxes made up $1.14 billion of city’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Renew Baltimore calls for the city’s tax rate to be nearly halved over the next seven years.

The Baltimore City Council will hold at least four oversight hearings examining the city’s response to its unprecedented overdose epidemic.