Local government

An Anne Arundel County judge ruled Monday to invalidate a ballot question asking Baltimore City voters to rezone the Inner Harbor for development on the grounds that it’s not proper charter material.

Details of the settlement between Baltimore and Johnson & Johnson remain secret, unlike previous opioid settlements that the city has announced in recent weeks.

Baltimore City Council members and others called on voters to reject Question H, a ballot initiative supported by David Smith to cut the number of council districts.

A reader says the ballot measure to cut the size of the Baltimore City Council will diminish the political participation of Black citizens.

Four things to know about the inspector general charter amendment on Howard County's November ballot.

Baltimore City Board of Elections Director Armstead Jones says about 2,100 election judges are needed to work the polls during the general election on Nov. 5.

There is an active search for an alternate quarter to replace the Glen Arm Post Office, however, a timeline for completion is not set.

Over 150 NAACP Maryland members signed a letter asking for the suspension of four members of the Maryland State Conference alleging financial concerns, bullying.

The railroad company is asking Baltimore’s City Council to sign off on the rights to build under public land. But residents want them to wait.

On Monday, Baltimore will begin a much-anticipated trial against drug companies to assign blame for the city’s opioid overdose death crisis.

The city appealed to the federal housing agency earlier this year to get back part of that lost funding.

Rev. Kobi Little, the president of the Baltimore NAACP, and Joshua Harris, vice president of the Baltimore NAACP, were both suspended this week by the national organization.

Advocates warned that without more support from the mayor’s office, the revived commission would serve as an “exercise in futility.”

Baltimore County Councilman Pat Young is trying to change a recently passed law that will put a referendum on the fall ballot to expand the council for the first time since 1956.

“Gas-powered leaf blowers are effectively pollution generation machines,” said Councilman Ryan Dorsey.

Not only are ballot measure efforts relatively cheap compared to electoral politics, they’re effective. Baltimore City voters rarely reject charter amendments.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski, Jr. has nominated Joseph W. Dixon, the former chief of Gainesville, Florida, to lead the county Fire Department. He would be the county’s first Black fire chief.

Pharmacy giant Walgreens will pay Baltimore $80 million to settle a lawsuit the city brought against it and other drug companies as part of an overdose epidemic that’s plagued the city for years, Mayor Brandon Scott’s office said Tuesday.

Whether the Democrats’ new fervor will translate into policy changes and more housing is less certain, as Gov. Wes Moore and others who have tried already know.

Neighbors entered the normally locked gates surrounding the C.P Crane plant site to hear that their efforts paid off. C.P. Crane will become a waterfront park.