Activists set up tents outside Baltimore City Hall, demand solutions to homelessness crisis
Advocates for homeless people erected a tent encampment early Wednesday to draw attention to the city’s crisis and the encampments they say are popping up across Baltimore.
What the Inflation Reduction Act will mean for Maryland residents
More than 1 million Maryland residents on Medicare will pay less for prescription drugs.
Two nonbinary candidates make history with election to Maryland’s Democratic Central Committee
Tia Hopkins of Baltimore and Antonio Bowens of Frederick County have been elected as openly nonbinary members of the Democratic Central Committee. They vow to push for inclusiveness in the state Democratic Party.
Cash for low-income Baltimore parents pilot begins
The city earmarked $4.8 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding for the program.
It’s time the Catholic church recognized Black American saints
"We know there are many more African American people who have done saintly things for the Church in spite of what the Church has done to them.”
Records show Baltimore officials’ mad dash to keep tenants housed after nonprofit housing provider stopped paying rents
Federal housing officials in the Baltimore HUD field office have requested an investigation from Office of the Inspector General of Investigations of AIDS Interfaith Residential Services and its wholly owned subsidiary Empire Homes of Maryland. Non-profit CEO says: 'There was no impropriety.'
State elections officials to seek court permission to count general election mail ballots early
The Maryland State Board of Elections, meeting via video on Monday, voted unanimously to file the emergency request in court.
Maryland again sets its sights on Baltimore east-west transit plan
It’s been years since the political stars were this well aligned for substantially upgrading Baltimore’s transit system.
Longtime Baltimore resident and broadcaster recounts witnessing attack on world-renowned writer Salman Rushdie in Chautauqua, New York
Rushdie was stabbed in the abdomen and neck Friday morning as he was about to give a lecture.
City delays leave Baltimore nonprofits waiting up to two years for needed funds
It’s a delay that advocates for Baltimore nonprofits say can hobble organizations, especially those with shoestring staffs, who rely on the federal grant funding to meet basic needs such as paying employees and providing them with health care benefits.
Better late than never? Highlandtown neighbors receive long-lost 2020 ballots
In September of 2020, Nick Frisone received an email from the United States Postal Service’s “informed delivery” service notifying him that his and his mother’s election ballots were scheduled for delivery. They never arrived.
Gov. Larry Hogan as an independent candidate for president? The lieutenant governor says it might happen.
Boyd Rutherford teased the idea during a radio interview Wednesday.
Baltimore County bill would exempt waterfront businesses from Maryland environmental rules
Restaurant owners who want to build on or expand their waterfront properties in Baltimore County could soon be exempt from state waterway protection regulations, per legislation under the County Council's consideration. A nonprofit dedicated to improving the Chesapeake Bay's health says the bill violates Maryland law.
Baltimore ARPA official responds to criticisms that city’s pandemic stimulus is moving too slow
While Baltimore ranks in the bottom half of large municipalities in both the amount of stimulus money obligated and spent, according to a city analysis, it outpaces a group of "peer" cities.
Baltimore finance department sent $2 million refund to wrong party, Inspector General reports
A series of cascading errors by Baltimore’s finance department and city vendors led the Bureau of Revenue Collections to inadvertently send the wrong company a check for $2 million, nearly $60,000 of which cannot be recovered, according to a new report from the Office of the Inspector General.
Maryland Republicans say governor result more about GOP views on Hogan than Trump
Maryland Republicans disappointed in Gov. Larry Hogan’s rebukes of former President Donald Trump, his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and his willingness to compromise with a Democratic legislature said their vote for Dan Cox served as a referendum on the state’s first two-term Republican governor in more than 60 years.
Maryland kids in distress are being kept in emergency departments for weeks, months
The longer kids stay in hospitals, physicians and administrators say, the more that their mental health deteriorates, and the more that limited and costly emergency-room resources are shifted away from other patients with critical needs.
Black candidates have never won a statewide office in Maryland. Is 2022 the year for a breakthrough win?
Just two Black men have been elected governor anywhere in the U.S.
Mayor Scott’s top advisor Michael Huber to depart City Hall for Hopkins
The attorney has served as Scott’s right hand for three years, providing a source of stability for the mayor across different political offices and the tumult of the pandemic.
Frederick County to decertify primary results and rescan
Election officials found a discrepancy between the total number of votes in the certified results and the number of accepted mail-in and provisional ballots.
