Politics

A Baltimore City Council committee created to examine Mayor Brandon Scott’s new conduit deal with Baltimore Gas and Electric slammed the proposal at their first fiery hearing Thursday night, where City Council President Nick Mosby questioned the administration’s rush to proceed with the agreement.

A software update that could have mitigated many of the cancellations will go live on Friday, the airline’s COO said.

The bills would protect abortion providers and patients from out-of-state legal action, ensure reproductive services are available on public college campuses and add privacy protections for medical records.

Maryland’s congressional leaders pushed for removing Roger Taney’s bust from the Capitol and replacing it with a new work honoring the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, a champion of civil rights.

The two unsuccessful candidates for governor on either side of the Mason-Dixon Line are teaming up.

With a new governor, a draft bill would allow six locations where people can consume illegal drugs with medical supervision.

Baltimore State's Attorney changes plans on advice of counsel from the Maryland State Ethics Commission

The president sought to portray a nation dramatically different in positive ways from the one he took charge of two years ago.

All told, some 300 people signed up to make their voices heard on a day that’s colloquially known as ”gun day” in Annapolis because several gun-related bills were lined up for back-to-back public hearings.

The finance department has called the city’s menu of tax credits “highly inequitable” and singled out the historic preservation incentive as especially in need of reforms.

A Holocaust survivor from Rockville, Maryland will be a guest at Tuesday’s State of the Union Address, the White House announced.

Under the terms, Baltimore would stop directly charging BGE access fees in exchange for paying for $134 million in system improvements during a four-year period between 2023 and 2027. The company would also pay an annual occupancy fee of $1.5 million.

Baltimore’s bus system has for years come under fire. Advocates say a wave of change could be coming to transit projects under a new administration in Annapolis.

The ban will begin on November 1.

The community cleaning initiative, which will focus on low-income neighborhoods of East, West and South Baltimore, comes as the city’s public works department is managing severe staffing problems.

After winning approval from a key committee, nominees move to the full Maryland Senate for confirmation votes.

A draft of the bill states ”every person, as a central component of an individual’s rights to liberty and equality, has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom including but not limited to the ability to make and effectuate decisions to prevent, continue, or end one’s own pregnancy.”

Sen. Ben Cardin invited Gov. Wes Moore to President Biden's State of the Union address to highlight federal-state cooperation.

Samples saved by a Baltimore doctor have been used to solve more than 80 cold cases, but evidence from 1,800 cases remains untested. Brown and some lawmakers are acting to protect this evidence trove from destruction.

Maryland lawmakers chose a simpler tax structure than other states, opting for only a sales tax instead of a combination of excise, weight and potency taxes.