Politics

Four things to know about the inspector general charter amendment on Howard County's November ballot.

A reader says the ballot measure to cut the size of the Baltimore City Council will diminish the political participation of Black citizens.

There is an active search for an alternate quarter to replace the Glen Arm Post Office, however, a timeline for completion is not set.

Donald Trump has brought racial identity to the spotlight by ridiculously questioning Kamala Harris' Blackness.

Kamala Harris got some flack for wearing $800 earrings during the recent debate. Local women think people need to mind their own business.

Over 150 NAACP Maryland members signed a letter asking for the suspension of four members of the Maryland State Conference alleging financial concerns, bullying.

The railroad company is asking Baltimore’s City Council to sign off on the rights to build under public land. But residents want them to wait.

On Monday, Baltimore will begin a much-anticipated trial against drug companies to assign blame for the city’s opioid overdose death crisis.

Rob Steinberger is running in the 3rd District against a better-known, more experienced, better-financed Democrat. His job is introducing himself to voters.

The city appealed to the federal housing agency earlier this year to get back part of that lost funding.

Rev. Kobi Little, the president of the Baltimore NAACP, and Joshua Harris, vice president of the Baltimore NAACP, were both suspended this week by the national organization.

Rachel Morin's five children have filed a lawsuit alleging their grandmother and aunt have kept the proceeds from a GoFundMe and four other fundraisers.

Advocates warned that without more support from the mayor’s office, the revived commission would serve as an “exercise in futility.”

Baltimore County Councilman Pat Young is trying to change a recently passed law that will put a referendum on the fall ballot to expand the council for the first time since 1956.

“Gas-powered leaf blowers are effectively pollution generation machines,” said Councilman Ryan Dorsey.

Not only are ballot measure efforts relatively cheap compared to electoral politics, they’re effective. Baltimore City voters rarely reject charter amendments.

There were moments during Trump’s ranting that Harris’ face in the split-screen shot said it all — “Go ahead and keep talking, kid.”

From the opening handshake, Vice President Kamala Harris took the fight to Donald Trump in a way that Biden could not.

Gov. Wes Moore declared September 2024 as African Heritage Month in Maryland.

Politicians have seized on the cases of the slain Maryland women Rachel Morin and Kayla Hamilton as the result of failed U.S. immigration policy.