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Black Baltimoreans feel more climate anxiety, new survey finds
Johns Hopkins researchers believe their findings represent the first assessment of how Baltimore-area residents think about climate change.
From left, Baltimore residents Jeffrey Barnes, Sarah Broadwater, and Kelly Cross.
Can Baltimore’s ‘baby bonus’ make a comeback?
Organizers of the Baby Bonus proposal, which would have given $1,000 to new parents in Baltimore City, are trying to find a way to keep the spirit of their proposal alive.
Corey Bryce reads a book with her 1-year-old daughter, Julien, inside their Columbia, Maryland home on Wednesday, October 23, 2024. Julien has been in an infants & toddlers program since she was about 4 months old, and Bryce says she knows she won’t be able to afford preschool without the money the state plans to funnel into pre-kindergarten education.
Jobs lost in every state and lifesaving cures not discovered: Possible impacts of research cuts
Red states and blue states alike are poised to lose jobs in research labs and the local businesses serving them.
The Translational Tissue Engineering Center is located at 400 N Broadway Street, adjacent to Johns Hopkins Hospital.
I rescued an injured bald eagle after I woke up. How’d your morning go?
Sometimes, you have to do something that scares you. On Wednesday morning, I helped rescue a wounded bald eagle from a neighbor’s yard and transported it to a wildlife center.
Hugh Simmons of the Phoenix Wildlife Center, checks out the eagle that I rescued on Wednesday, March 5, 2025.
Commentary: How I plan to survive this presidential regime
I’m over the confusion, panic, fear and unmooring that the new regime in Washington has methodically and boastfully fostered this past month. But I know I can survive it.
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 14: U.S. President Donald Trump, center, accompanied by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, left, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, speaks after signing two executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on February 14, 2025 in Washington, D.C. President Trump signed an executive order withholding federal funding from schools and universities that impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate and a second order establishing the Energy Dominance Council led by Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum.
The race to save the bee collection at a lab stung by Trump cuts
The Eastern Ecological Science Center’s Bee Lab in Prince George’s County is funded by the U.S. Geological Survey. Volunteers helped preserve bees as they worry about the lab’s fate amid Trump’s federal funding cuts.
Researchers at the Eastern Ecological Science Center Bee Inventory & Monitoring Lab have spent a quarter-century studying the country’s bees.
Baltimore City Council is ready to talk about kids’ struggles to get to school
A Thursday hearing will be the first time public officials discuss transit’s impact on students since a Banner investigation found it’s nearly impossible for them to get to school on time every day.
Brooke Bourne, a senior at Western High School, spends more than 90 minutes getting home from school each day on public transit, a distance that takes 17 minutes by car.
Crab cake summit: Mayor, Conway look to ‘reset’ after dinner at Koco’s
The mayor and a councilmember have been arguing over the city’s opioid policy for months. Eleven ounces of jumbo lump helped straighten things out.
Mayor Brandon Scott and City Councilman Mark Conway.
Moore: ‘I don’t think it’s my job to tell the Democratic Party how to find itself’
Gov. Wes Moore said he didn’t even watch President Donald Trump’s speech Tuesday night.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore after a press conference to discuss the state’s response to the Trump administration’s actions against federal workers last month.
Fewer Maryland children are dying from abuse or neglect than originally reported
Corrected data show deaths still exceed the national average.
Department of Human Services building on S. Charles Street, in Baltimore, Wednesday, February 26, 2025.
These Maryland federal properties made Trump admin’s now-deleted for sale list
The Trump administration deleted a list of hundreds of federally owned buildings it had deemed “not core to government operations” less then 24 hours after it was published.
George H. Fallon Federal Building at 31 Hopkins Plaza in downtown Baltimore.
New IG report shows improving conditions at Baltimore DPW
Conditions at the much beleaguered solid waste division of the Baltimore Department of Public Works are beginning to improve after myriad problems were brought to light last summer.
A new report from Baltimore's inspector general has found conditions improving at Department of Public Works facilities.
Trump grants one-month exemption for automakers from new tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada
President Donald Trump is granting a one-month exemption on his stiff new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada for U.S. automakers.
Nearly one-quarter of all tonnage shipped into the Port of Baltimore comes from China, Mexico or Canada.
Baltimore to start 24-hour parking enforcement
A 24-hour schedule will help officers get to more “hot spots” where enforcement doesn’t always happen but where the department knows offenses are happening, city officials said.
A pair of parking tickets on a windshield of a Mercedes parked near the corner of Cathedral and West Mulberry streets in downtown Baltimore.
State investigating trench collapse in Catonsville that killed 2 construction workers
State officials are investigating the Catonsville trench collapse that killed two construction workers.
Crews on the scene of a rescue of trapped construction workers on the 500 block of Academy Road in Catonsville on Friday, February 28, 2025.
How some of Maryland’s congressional delegation reacted to Trump’s speech
Democratic members of Maryland’s majority-blue federal delegation silently protested, rejected or outright skipped President Donald Trump’s remarks Tuesday.
President Donald Trump, in a dark suit, stands in front of members of Congress and guests in the U.S. House chamber.
Maryland veterans face Trump’s federal workforce purge as VA to cut thousands
The federal government is the nation’s largest employer of veterans. Maryland vets are among those losing jobs — and bracing for potential service cuts.
Recruiters talks to potential candidates at a hiring fair for veterans and other community members at Morgan State University.
Divided Supreme Court rejects Trump’s push to rebuke judge over foreign aid freeze
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, two conservatives, joined the three liberal justices to form a majority.
The United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. on Friday, January 3, 2025.
Marvin James, Mayor Scott’s ‘wartime’ adviser, to step down
James said Scott gave him three objectives when he took the job: Stabilize the office — which had been hemorrhaging people — get crime down and win the election.
Marvin James, an aide to Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, coordinates final preparations before the mayor gives the annual State of the City address on Monday, April 17. The event was held at the Middle Branch Fitness and Wellness Center in South Baltimore.
Much ado about $60. How 2 Republicans’ complaints led the library to cancel a Democratic candidate’s event.
Sharonda Huffman, who is seeking to become the first Black woman elected to the Baltimore County Council, is pushing back against claims that she held a political fundraiser at the Essex branch.
Sharonda Huffman talks to attendees at the kickoff event for her campaign for Baltimore County Council at the Essex Branch of the Baltimore Public Library in December.
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