Politics

Incumbent Council President Mosby also amped up his spending in April while bringing in a modest $13,500.

Both Scott and Dixon spent heavily. Scott reported $788,000 of expenditures, mostly on media buys. Dixon reported $506,000, most of which also went toward ads.

Both David Trone and Angela Alsobrooks have made an issue about how their opponent funds their campaign, in what is likely to be the most expensive race in state history.

Years of underfunding has left Carroll County short of the number of teachers it needs, the president of the Carroll County Education Association says.

With scant police resources to locate missing people, the Missing in Baltimore City Facebook group has increasingly become a resource for families to crowdsource and find support as they search for their loved ones.

Ranked choice voting could flip the narrative in Maryland elections. Voters would rank candidates as their first, second and third choices. The number could be greater, but let’s keep the example simple.

The Banner and Goucher College Poll surveyed Baltimore voters last month. We circled back to Vignarajah voters to see how they were feeling now.

More than 16,500 Democratic mail-in ballots have already been cast — one-third of all mail ballots sent to blue Baltimoreans.

Backers of the city’s public financing system, including the City Council member who introduced the legislation to establish the program, called on Vignarajah Thursday to return the money.

State officials on Thursday provided a clearer picture of what it will take to replace the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

For the primary election, early voting will be held from May 2 through May 9, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., including weekends.

The Baltimore region’s business community is thankful that the state found ways to avoid drastic cuts to funding for regional transit systems, the CEOs of the Greater Baltimore Committee and the Greater Washington Partnership say.

After taking heat for declining to send any of Baltimore’s windfall in federal pandemic aid to the city’s strapped fire department, Mayor Brandon Scott on Wednesday announced that he was setting $10 million aside for the agency.

Columbia villages met last month to choose representatives to serve on the CA Board of Directors. But in some cases a quorum wasn’t reached.

A leading candidate in the Democratic primary for Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District released an ad this week negatively targeting his top opponent.

The move could dramatically reshape the May 14 Democratic primary.

In 2015, Vignarajah wanted then-mayoral candidate Elizabeth Embry to make him police commissioner if she won election. When a colleague objected, Vignarajah grew extremely annoyed.

Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman on Wednesday proposed a $2.31 billion budget for fiscal year 2025 that increases spending, boosts the starting pay of police officers and provides funds to staff three new schools.

Maryland is the third state to eliminate the practice as the question of fairness in admissions undergoes increased scrutiny across the country. Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, College Park had already eliminated legacy admissions.

Gary Washington, now 63, of Baltimore, spent more than 31 years incarcerated on charges of first-degree murder and use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence in the deadly shooting of Faheem “Bobo” Ali, which happened on Barclay Street between East 23rd and East 24th streets in Barclay, on Dec. 27, 1986.