Politics

Local DJs also will be featured at the Jan. 18 party at the Baltimore Convention Center, DJ QuickSilva, DJ Tanz and Kristin with Shiny Entertainment.

City Council President Nick Mosby has selected attorney Robert Dashiell to represent him in his appeal of a ruling by Baltimore City’s ethics board, according to recent court filings.

In a "clarifying statement" released Friday afternoon, BOPA aid it did not have the authority to make "unilateral" decisions about canceling mayoral events.

Wes Moore will become the state’s first Black governor in Annapolis, a city with a history as a major slave port.

The debate follows the prior school board’s efforts to dump an auditor who questioned its practices.

Mayor Brandon Scott outlined an array of targeted policy reforms as well as several funding requests for addressing vacancy, supporting the Baltimore Police Department and bolstering public safety.

The announcement was hardly surprising to Baltimore’s political class — the 37-year-old was widely viewed to be considering a run for citywide office. His campaign has $240,882.56 on hand, according to the most recent campaign finance records filed in late November.

Mayor Brandon Scott is expected to lay out his goals and priorities for the legislative session Thursday afternoon, and Baltimore’s top lobbyist said City Hall will focus on painting the Moore administration an “overall picture of what Baltimore’s holistic need is.”

Ravens president says the team is ”really committed to Maryland as a whole and Baltimore.”

First elected in 2018 to represent the area surrounding Randallstown and Owings Mills, Democratic Baltimore County Councilman Julian Jones will serve his fourth stint as chairman.

Brown, 61 of Prince George’s County, wants more money and authority to raise salaries in the office and double the size of the unit that prosecutes organized crime to 24 attorneys. He wants to go after civil rights violators and investigate and prosecute police misconduct.

The project has drawn the ire of hundreds of people who have signed petitions, penned letters to elected leaders, protested at meetings with transit officials and picketed the proposal with signs warning: “NO APARTMENTS, NO COMPROMISE.”

Maryland's law legalizing recreational cannabis use and possession goes into effect July 1 and legislators have until then to set up rules for recreational purchases or risk losing market share and potential tax revenues to illicit sales.

At a press conference Monday, some called for residents in five villages to sign a petition asking the village councils to recall their elected leaders immediately.

Brown, 61, of Prince George’s County, is succeeding Brian Frosh, who served from 2015-2023.

AFSCME Maryland Council 3 expressed frustration with the outgoing Republican governor and what it called a “take it or leave it offer."

New deal could keep the NFL team in Baltimore for up to 25 years.

A new vendor, First Transit, is taking over operation of the fleet

The transition represents a changing of the guard: Ebony Thompson is slated to become the first Black woman to permanently hold the position, as well as the first openly gay city solicitor, while Jim Shea’s retirement marks the end of the career of one of Maryland’s most prominent attorneys.

The statewide residential and commercial combined assessment increase beat 2022’s overall jump of 12% and is the highest year-over-year value hike in several years.