Politics

The budget situation — while not dire, given the total budget is more than $60 billion — will test Democrats’ ability to enact new programs and services, given their limited financial resources.

Prosecutors would like to require a youth defendant’s lawyer to be physically present during an interrogation, which would amend a 2021 juvenile justice reform.

The NFL team will open a "preview center" showing off models of the suites coming to M&T Bank Stadium.

Closing the digital divide is vital to expanding opportunities for underserved communities in Baltimore, Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway Sr., retired senior pastor of Union Baptist Church in Baltimore, says.

The Maryland social services agency has been shortchanging welfare theft victims for months, according to advocates and policy experts, violating state law and potentially saving millions, an investigation by The Baltimore Banner found.

“Our military families are sacrificing just as much as our people in uniform,” the Democratic governor said as he unveiled his own proposals and offered support for measures sponsored by lawmakers.

“We’ve been working all throughout the weekend and in the week with all of the partners, and we feel very confident that a deal is imminent,” Moore, a Democrat, told reporters.

The appetite for change is clear. But the plan’s details, at least for now, are less so.

Policymakers at every level have failed to address conditions in Baltimore’s underserved neighborhoods that continue to harm Black children, Kevin Mcleod, a longtime children’s advocate and coach, says.

Baltimore County Council chair Julian Jones’ calls for an oversight board revive similar checks Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. sought to impose through an oversight board on Inspector General Kelly Madigan’s office in 2021.

The rail car that experienced an electrical fire recently — triggering the suspension of Baltimore’s entire light rail line last week — had received a scheduled rehabilitation prior to the incident, Maryland’s top transit official said Tuesday.

Maryland’s state judiciary is accepting applications to replace a circuit court judge who was killed earlier this year by a man whose divorce case the judge was presiding over, authorities have said.

Anne Arundel is in the final stages of picking a new name for its new high school, expected to open next year off Interstate 97 in Severn. Although names connected with the long history of family farming got more nominations than any other choice, a committee sorting through the choices didn’t advance them for consideration.

The money would be put toward at least 35,700 properties across Baltimore, including in neighborhoods that typically don’t see much government investment.

It’s possible that the two sides could come to a new agreement by the end of the year encompassing both the priorities of Gov. Wes Moore and Orioles CEO and chairman John Angelos, while also addressing concerns that scuttled the deal last week.

Craig Glendenning’s name appears scrubbed from the Howard County Council website this week.

Complaints about the blight and dangers of the Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park area have gotten little or no response from Baltimore officials, Wanda Keyes Heard, a former chief judge of the Baltimore Circuit Court, says.

The decision by the Archdiocese of Baltimore to file for bankruptcy will allow equitable compensation for abuse survivors and position the church to continue its mission, says Joe Foss, a member of the archdiocese’s Board of Financial Administration and former vice chairman and chief operating officer of the Baltimore Orioles.

Frank and Caroline LaPere plan to keep Pava's memory alive.

Gov. Wes Moore also named several new members to the Commission on Indian Affairs