Local government

The Mayor’s Office of Recovery Programs has recommended terminating a $500,000 grant to the state’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing resources to the LGBTQ community, Pride Center of Maryland. The grant would affect programming to address violence within the LGBTQ community.

Two separate super PACs have been created to support Mayor Brandon Scott. Neither group has reported raising or spending any money.

A smaller-than-expected bill for school funding and more revenue from income and property taxes, investments, and parking tickets and fees helped the city balance its spending plan.

The campaign will air its first TV and radio ads this week, selling him, as one grandmother declares, as “the kind of young man we can all be proud of.”

Gov. Wes Moore, Mayor Brandon Scott and U.S. officials discussed the recovery effort on national TV news.

“We know what these folks really want to say when they say DEI mayor,” Scott told The Banner. “They really want to say the N-word.”

A solemn undertone permeated what is historically an exuberant affair for city and state leadership.

The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse has fueled fears of nationwide supply-chain disruptions, but guarded optimism might be justified, says a Johns Hopkins Carey Business School professor who specializes in operations management and business analytics.

The system controlling how Baltimore purchases hundreds of millions of dollars of goods and services each year has been riddled with problems for years.

Before a crowd of officials and supporters at Baltimore Center Stage in Mount Vernon, Scott used much of his last State of the City address of this current term to tell residents to stay the course with his administration and tout accomplishments such as a reduction in homicides and nonfatal gun violence.

Peter Angelos helped Baltimoreans and Marylanders countless times and in countless ways that he didn't want anybody to know about, Tom Minkin, his friend and longest-serving legal associate, says.

Mayor Brandon Scott will deliver the last State of the City address of his current term on Monday night, before a crowd of officials and supporters.

This week’s political news and updates from around Maryland.

The U.S. Coast Guard is asking for assistance in identifying an alleged Baltimore hoax caller.

The money positions Vignarajah to air TV ads, conduct polls and financially compete in a tight Democratic primary where every vote matters.

Mayor Brandon Scott and Zeke Cohen were endorsed by AFSCME Maryland Council 3, the state’s second-largest union.

Proposed changes to the state's distribution of highway user revenue would have an outsized impact on Baltimore City.

The Baltimore County Council is considering expanding from seven to nine members to be more representative of its increasingly diverse population. A work group will offer its recommendations by March 31.

While Hopkins officials committed to taking immediate steps to phase out their reliance on the incinerator, an environmental representative from the largest hospital systems in Maryland, MedStar Health, told the council that they believe operators of the incinerator have responded appropriately to recent violations.