Politics

Since July of 2020, the number of city cable subscribers has dropped by more than 40,000 — reducing the revenue the city collects from its 5% franchise fee.

The Maryland Transit Administration said it plans to suspend light rail service on the north-south line starting Friday.

Funds were awarded to the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative and the Gwynns Falls Business and Homeowners Association for their environmentally friendly, community-based projects.

Whether selling the city-owned Inner Harbor Hilton hotel is even an option, though, isn’t clear. If Baltimore were able to find a buyer, the sale would likely saddle the city with tremendous debt.

Attorney General Anthony Brown has ended the suspension of Zainab Chaudry from her position on the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention following outrage over her anti-Israeli social media posts.

Sandra Day O'Connor left a lasting legal impact after becoming the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, says University of Baltimore School of Law Professor José Felipé Anderson, who recalls her grace and describes her emergence as a swing vote on the court.

Maryland transportation projects could be delayed and local commuter bus service and roadway maintenance face significant cuts as a result of a more-than-$3 billion shortfall in funding the state’s six-year transportation plan, state officials said Tuesday.

Federal authorities have identified Harford County resident Brandon Heffner, 38, among a group of rioters on the U.S. Capitol’s lower West Terrace in video footage from Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

US Sen. Tommy Tuberville announced on Tuesday that he was ending his blockade of hundreds of military promotions, clearing the way for the first woman to lead the Naval Academy in Annapolis. The Senate in one stroke then approved 425 military promotions.

The final scheduled meeting of the Maryland Stadium Authority this year came and went without action on the Orioles’ lease, which expires Dec. 31. But officials remained optimistic: “My message to the public is that everyone’s intention, including the Orioles, is for the Orioles to remain in Baltimore for a very long time,” MSA Executive Director Michael Frenz said.

The survey is the first in what Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative researchers say will be an annual survey of life around Baltimore that they hope will inform community members and policy makers about the region’s strengths and challenges.

Virginia officials are asking the federal government to pause the efforts to fund and build the FBI’s new headquarters in Greenbelt while an inspector general reviews the process. Maryland officials remain confident the Greenbelt pick will withstand scrutiny.

Maryland lawmakers should pass legislation in the next General Assembly session to ensure multilingual English learners are awarded higher education credits, community college educators say.

Once-fertile soil has given way to wetlands plants and salt patches, imperiling a search for the exact location of the cabin where Harriet Tubman’s father lived and taught her in Eastern Maryland.

Today is the 90th anniversary of the end of Prohibition. If you can’t make one of the parties — it is not a national holiday, and work awaits on Wednesday — here is a little game you can play at home. For each answer you get wrong, take a drink.

The Baltimore City Council on Monday night approved an inclusionary housing bill that would compel all major developments to reserve a portion of the units to be rented at reduced prices.

The board would review draft IG investigation reports and either “approve a draft report as written” or recommend changes to the draft report “if the advisory board disagrees with the substance of any item contained in a report.”

The resolution, which did not appear on Monday night’s agenda, failed with four members abstaining from the vote. Just minutes earlier, a large group of pro-Palestine protestors had been escorted out of the building after interrupting the council proceedings.

The Orioles have balked at the idea of separating development rights from the lease in order to get it signed by the end of the month.

Richard Luna, the interim director of the Department of Public Works, said 80% of crews have been hired and new dumpster trucks are on the way.