Politics

Vignarajah was one of a handful of candidates to participate in Baltimore's new public financing system for small-dollar campaigns this year, but ended his bid for mayor weeks before Election Day and endorsed Sheila Dixon.

Food insecurity in rural Maryland has been especially pronounced this summer, local advocates say. Low-income families are grappling with soaring grocery prices and unusually high temperatures that hit at the same time as federal reductions in food assistance programs.

Two East Side community activists, Leah Biddinger and Kevin McDonough, work together to identify potential code violations in their community and alert Baltimore County officials.

Joseph Gillespie admitted to taking more than $250,000 in bribes that caused the city to lose out on more than $1 million in tax revenue.

Stephen Walters has been sounding the alarm for the better part of two decades: To save itself, he says, Baltimore must slash its property tax rate. This week the state’s highest court rejected a ballot initiative to reduce and cap the rate.

Two veterans who help investigate cases of people lying about their military records said Gov. Wes Moore inaccurately claiming a Bronze Star on a White House application was not stolen valor.

The five fires, which all broke out in the afternoons or evenings in late July, exclusively erupted at elementary/middle school facilities, according to incident reports.

Be forewarned. This is a Dougie Downer kind of column. What goes up must come down. Democrats might be enjoying sweet dreams of November, but the hardest days of the campaign start right after Labor Day.

“I made an honest mistake by including something because my commanding officer thought it was a good idea,” Moore said Thursday. “He thought that I earned it and he was already going through the paperwork to process it.”

The Maryland State Department of the Environment published a draft permit Thursday morning that would allow CSX Transportation to continue operating its coal terminal in South Baltimore.

Together, the court’s decisions about the two proposals showcased the limits of Maryland’s ballot initiative process and affirmed the sole power of legislative branches to make specific policy — a hallmark of representative democracies.

Mayor Brandon Scott laid the groundwork for the city to begin spending money, with designs on slowing the death toll in a city where in recent years an average of three people have died from overdoses every day.

Sometimes referred to as housing navigators or counselors, they take on a range of tasks, including providing hands-on support to households as they browse housing options and make contact with landlords.

Those seeking zoning changes in Baltimore County through a quadrennial process learned the fate of their proposals on Tuesday night. The County Council wrapped up work its Comprehensive Zoning Map Process.

Will Tilburg has shaped the state’s medical and recreational cannabis rules, educated lawmakers on national best practices and established several first-in-the-nation cannabis policies and standards during his nearly seven-year tenure.

“This is the library they’re going to remember, but a thousand times better," Sonia Alcántara-Antoine, the CEO of the Baltimore County Public Library, said of the renovated Catonsville branch.

The professional investment staff that help guide the fund have defended their approach, saying that private equity in particular has been an effective way to increase returns — even as they shift away from other alternative investments and poorer-performing overseas stocks.

Before dropping out, Robert F. Kennedy’s supporters had amassed enough signatures on a petition to get him on Maryland’s ballot as a presidential candidate, state elections officials declared on Tuesday.

National elections prognosticators have rated Maryland’s Senate race as “leans” or “likely” Democratic, but the new poll shows that the race is closer than some analysts have predicted.

Voters rarely elect U.S. senators who are from the opposite party from the one that dominates their state. Hogan is trying to buck that trend in his race against Democratic nominee Angela Alsobrooks.