Politics

Mayor Brandon Scott will deliver the last State of the City address of his current term on Monday night, before a crowd of officials and supporters.

Maryland can better protect residents from identity theft and fraud by giving them greater access to and more control over personal data, the founder of a consumer rights law firm says.

Tax debt and other property-related bills can block home title transfers that would be beneficial to low-income Marylanders, says an attorney who works to resolve these “tangled titles.”

How to understand a man who got a hero’s welcome after buying the O’s and also inspired 1,000 or so fans to walk out of a game in protest? Or, how to sum up a figure who has been crowned Marylander of the Year and baseball’s worst owner?

Peter G. Angelos, the billionaire personal injury attorney credited with keeping the Baltimore Orioles here but who became despised by the fan base, died Saturday, the Orioles announced. He was 94.

This week’s political news and updates from around Maryland.

Maryland's General Assembly is the Blackest state legislative body in the nation, and one of the most diverse.

Environmental advocates said they’re not giving up on their efforts just yet, pointing out that there is still time to influence change before the session ends on April 8.

The U.S. Coast Guard is asking for assistance in identifying an alleged Baltimore hoax caller.

Trone’s remark came during a budget hearing Thursday at the U.S. Capitol.

The money positions Vignarajah to air TV ads, conduct polls and financially compete in a tight Democratic primary where every vote matters.

It’s time for Maryland to enact a law to protect roadworkers whose safety is put at risk by the actions or motorists, a representative of the Laborers’ International Union of North America says.

Vice Adm. Yvette Davids is the first woman and first Hispanic American to serve as Naval Academy superintendent, and as she laid out her top three priorities to the Board of Visitors for the first time, she even found good news in the Washington political maelstrom that delayed her arrival by six months.

The SEC Player of the Year has teamed with Goldman Sachs’ One Million Black Women initiative for a national TV and digital campaign to ask Congress to help narrow the racial wealth gap Black women are facing.

The policy aims to give Maryland tenants more power to fight bad housing conditions in court.

Mayor Brandon Scott and Zeke Cohen were endorsed by AFSCME Maryland Council 3, the state’s second-largest union.

The killing of a Maryland judge and a rise in threats against the state’s judges necessitated the passage of legislation to better protect them, the president and president-elect of the Maryland State Bar Association say.

Proposed changes to the state's distribution of highway user revenue would have an outsized impact on Baltimore City.

The Baltimore County Council is considering expanding from seven to nine members to be more representative of its increasingly diverse population. A work group will offer its recommendations by March 31.

While Hopkins officials committed to taking immediate steps to phase out their reliance on the incinerator, an environmental representative from the largest hospital systems in Maryland, MedStar Health, told the council that they believe operators of the incinerator have responded appropriately to recent violations.