Politics

The outgoing councilman has endorsed a successor, but two others say they have what it takes to represent Southeast Baltimore.

Jacob Leffler, the vice president of the Maryland Association of the Deaf, said the bill makes movie theaters more accessible for all people — including moviegoers who are learning the language spoken in a movie or people who want or need enhanced visual support for comprehension

A Democrat in her second term leading Maryland’s second-largest county, Alsobrooks — the first woman and Black woman elected to the position — said her life’s work has culminated in this: a bid for the state’s open U.S. Senate seat.

In the contested Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, candidate Angela Alsobrooks picked up support from the only other woman who has held the job in Maryland: Barbara A. Mikulski.

This could be the last televised debate before early primary voting begins on May 2.

Scott’s challengers sought to drown out his optimistic message and lambasted his record, casting him as an ineffective leader whose portrait of improvement masks a more complicated and stagnant on-the-ground reality.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country.

A plan discussed by Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates to prosecute parents whose children are arrested would only make matters worse for marginalized families in the city, a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health says.

Cogen’s endorsement means the city’s two elected law enforcement officials are backing Dixon, following Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates’ endorsement earlier this month.

To win over voters, Trone combines restless energy with the feel-your-pain approach of former President Bill Clinton.

Businesses and government can help protect the economy and jobs by working to limit supply chain disruptions stemming from the loss of the Key Bridge, the president and chief executive officer of the Maryland Public Policy Institute says.

Maryland is tackling a stubborn problem of processing applications for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and last month the state said it got close to federal compliance for the first time in almost a decade.

Howard County’s school board has historically resisted campaigns to get certain books off the shelves. Could this election flip the script?

Closings of Maryland craft breweries reflect how the industry has been subjected to an unfriendly business and political climate, says a former regulator of Maryland’s alcohol industry.

As in-person voting approaches, the top Democratic candidates for Maryland’s open U.S. Senate seat are getting chippy over a new ad from David Trone that criticizes Angela Alsobrooks.

Paris Gray, a mentee of outgoing Councilman Kristerfer Burnett, and former state Del. Bilal Ali, lead in fundraising.

Baltimore’s historic Black newspaper endorses Scott, Alsobrooks and others

A former Republican and Larry Hogan voter says he now sees Hogan’s candidacy for the U.S. Senate as representing a threat to democracy.

Among the biggest discrepancies in an amended campaign finance report is a more than $9,000 donation from BGE's PAC that the Mosby campaign now says was only $450.

City Councilman John Bullock faces a challenge in West Baltimore’s 9th District.