Politics

The push by members of former President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign that his felon status makes him more relatable to Black people is beyond ignorant.

West Baltimore residents talk about what they’d like to see in Poppleton, now that the city is terminating its agreement with a New York developer that has struggled to build there.

Members of the state’s Board of Public Works signed off on spending the money at a Wednesday meeting with no discussion of the details.

Centurion of Maryland will take over providing medical and mental health care to an estimated 20,000 people who are incarcerated in state-run prisons and jails. The officials who signed off on the deal expressed frustration with the process.

Who will best represent the viewpoints of loyal Sheila Dixon supporters?

Carlton R. Smith, a fixture in the city who advocated for Black and brown members of the LGBTQ community and was currently fighting to decriminalize HIV in the state, died in his sleep May 29 in his Mount Vernon condominium. He was 61.

An executive order from the governor requires new standards for using low-emission electric options for new and replacement heating equipment in homes, such as furnaces and water heaters.

The $8.45 million commitment will support commercial corridors, small businesses and rehabilitating vacant homes.

“The election is going to be decided here in Maryland. It’s not going to be decided in Milwaukee,” a Hogan adviser said.

The worker-owned business employs a diverse workforce, which has first dibs on every home it rehabs.

The Baltimore County Council on Monday passed a contentious measure designed to reduce overcrowding in schools by adding an approval process for developers who want to build new housing.

Larry Hogan urged respect for the legal system and the verdict in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial. Trump’s daughter-in-law, a high-ranking Republican Party official, responded that Hogan doesn't deserve respect himself.

A parade with dozens of groups — including a boisterous drumline, dancers, politicians searching for votes and many, many people waving rainbow flags — crawled up Main Street and West Street.

“Very close races can be won or lost based on LGBTQ voters,” says one expert.

Maryland’s Attorney General has signed on to a push for a federal civil rights investigation into a Texas police officer pardoned by that state’s governor after being convicted of killing a social justice protester.

Horseshoe crab blood is a vital part of the pharmaceutical industry — but this nonprofit group says Maryland obfuscates how it regulates their harvest.

The city’s fund, one of several collecting donations for the survivors and victims of the Key Bridge disaster, was originally slated to close on Friday, but the mayor’s office said it planned to keep it open because of continued support.

The “tough-on-crime” approaches to juvenile justice signed into law by Gov. Wes Moore have proved ineffective in the past because they fail to adequately consider the root causes of youth crime, the CEO of the Juvenile Law Center says.

John Sarbanes is exactly the right person to ask about fixing Congress. It’s his cause. His answer is long and flows from The Federalist Papers to the fall elections. It isn’t Congress that’s broken, he says, it’s us.

Jurors deliberated for 9 1/2 hours over two days before convicting Trump of all 34 counts he faced. Trump sat stone-faced as the verdict was being read.