Politics

Five seats are up for grabs. Here’s where the candidates stand on issues like cellphones and building new schools.

Five of the races are head-to-head matchups against candidates with visions for the school system that can differ dramatically.

“We don’t have a sense of when it may happen again, we don’t have a sense of what to do differently,” Councilman Mark Conway said.

Councilman Dion Guthrie, 86, a Democrat, is charged with one count of theft between $1,500 and $25,000 from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1501.

State Sen. Charles E. Sydnor III, who has represented western Baltimore County in the General Assembly since 2020, says he may run for county executive in 2026.

As Angela Alsobrooks runs for the U.S. Senate, many of her past critics have become supporters.

Maryland has some of the strongest abortion protections in the country. Now, voters will decide whether the state constitution should include a right to reproductive freedom.

The decision is a blow to the city and a win for the drug companies, but it was not entirely unexpected because of Maryland’s high legal standard for punitive damages.

Owners of vacant properties would eventually pay a tax rate four times that of typical properties.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski, Jr. and other county leaders this week criticized the Maryland Department of Transportation for cutting funding and slow-walking important county transit projects.

Four candidates are running for two open seats on the Carroll County school board.

Deep within Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s 925-page roadmap for the next Republican president, its authors say they want the service academies scrubbed of anything and anyone deemed insufficiently pure of thought.

West Friendship Park was long home to a popular, privately run antique farm museum. With the museum gone, a county task force recommends reimagining the 380-acre park by adding an agricultural center, horse trails, an archery area, campsites and more.

The opioid trial is far from over, though. The distributors, McKesson and AmerisourceBergen, will begin presenting their cases this week. The trial is expected to continue into next month.

A win on fraud and deceit would be a "huge win" for tenants, attorneys for the case said.

The state wants to build fewer parking lots and more mixed-use developments on the 300 acres it owns within a half-mile of transit stations.

The dozens of pages of email threads also included speculative voter fraud scenarios discussed between state Republican Party leaders and a GOP election board member.

Angela Alsobrooks could make history if she is elected Senator of Maryland. She also taught me the Electric Slide.

Another Trump presidency could come with cuts to federal jobs in the state, questions over funding for key transportation projects, less cooperation on preventing gun violence and uncertain effects on the state’s budget.

Polls show a majority of white Catholics support Trump.