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Moore loses another cabinet secretary as service chief Paul Monteiro exits
The state’s first secretary of service and civic innovation is leaving his post, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore announced Monday.
Paul Monteiro listens to Gov. Wes Moore announce him as his pick to serve as the first secretary of the Department of Service and Civic Innovation at a press conference in the Maryland State House on Monday, April 3. Moore issued an executive order creating the cabinet-level department on his first full day in office in January.
Gov. Wes Moore’s deputy chief of staff will lead Baltimore Public Markets
Shaina A. Hernandez will become CEO and president of the Baltimore Public Markets Corporation.
Shaina A. Hernandez, Deputy Chief of Staff to Gov. Wes Moore, has been named as CEO of Baltimore Public Markets.
Why the fight over Manor Hill Brewing just won’t end
A bitter fight in Howard County between Manor Hill Brewing and its neighbors has lasted nearly a decade.
Manor Hill Brewing, just west of Ellicott City.
How ‘driving while Black’ persists in Baltimore County
Black drivers make up most of the traffic stops in Baltimore County, despite being 30% of the population — disparities police have known about for years but have failed to fix.
Up to $20K available as Baltimore renews grants to help renters buy homes
A city-funded grant program will help cover down payment and closing costs for residents who live in East and West Baltimore.
Shanell Walker bought a once-vacant house in the Park Circle neighborhood. Through her mortgage specialist, she found a number of different incentives and met a contractor who customized the home to fit her specifications.
Tearing down the East Wing is about way more than destroying a building
Apparently there’s nothing to be done about the demolition and construction at the White House. It’s still heartbreaking to see a hole in it.
Work continues on the demolition of a part of the East Wing of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington, before construction of a new ballroom.
Trump administration posts notice that no federal food aid will go out Nov. 1
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has posted a notice on its website saying federal food aid will not go out Nov. 1.
President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025, in Washington.
Trump threatens Canada with 10% extra import tax for not pulling down anti-tariffs ad sooner
The province of Ontario used Ronald Reagan’s words in a TV ad that criticize Trump’s tariffs
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 07: U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speak to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on October 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. Carney and Trump will meet in the Oval Office and later have a bilateral lunch where they are expected to discuss a range of topics including U.S. tariffs. Carney visited the White House earlier in the year after he was elected prime minister.  (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Union panel rules Baltimore IG interfered in election, orders new vote
Isabel Mercedes Cumming's social media posts constituted “an act of interference” and an endorsement, regardless of the intent behind them, the union panel ruled.
Members of the AFSCME union hold up signs reading "staff the front lines" during an event with Gov. Wes Moore, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and national union President Lee Saunders outside the union building in southwest Baltimore on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023.
Moore won’t use state funds to replace federal food aid during shutdown
One in nine Marylanders puts food on the table with the help of SNAP, but with benefits soon running out as a federal government shutdown drags on, Gov. Wes Moore is not planning to tap state money to keep the program running.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, left, and Prince George's County Aisha Braveboy, right, tour the Bowie Food Pantry on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025.
Furloughed federal workers return to manage open enrollment amid shutdown
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will temporarily bring all its furloughed employees back to work starting Monday.
WOODLAWN, MARYLAND - MARCH 19: An aerial of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services building on March 19, 2025 in Woodlawn, Maryland. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is focusing on the Medicare and Medicaid payment infrastructure as a way to make cost-saving cuts in the system.
US wants to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia as soon as next week
The federal government told a Maryland judge on Friday that it plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, saying in a court filing it could do so as early as Oct. 31.
Homeland Security officials have said for months they would deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a third country.
National Democrats push a new poll showing Marylanders support redistricting
Maryland has not yet entered the national redistricting fray, but a poll commissioned by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee could put pressure on leaders to try to eke out one more Democratic member of Congress.
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on Friday, January 3, 2025.
Noah Hillman argued Black teachers weren’t equal. Annapolis is renaming his garage.
Annapolis is changing the name on the Noah Hillman Parking Garage, a downtown memorial for a respected alderman. Twenty years before he was elected, Hillman was the lawyer for one of Maryland’s most notorious racists, George Fox.
Noah Hillman, center, with Arthur Ellington, left, and an unidentified man at a City Hall meeting in the late 1950s. Both Hillman and Ellington were members of the city council who served brief tenures as interim mayor.
Trump administration denies Western Maryland’s final appeal for FEMA money
The Trump administration rejected the final appeal for federal disaster relief for Western Maryland communities that are still recovering from May’s historic flash floods.
Waterlogged cars sit in the flooded parking lot of Westernport Elementary School on Thursday, May 15, 2025, after a catastrophic storm hit the area on Tuesday.
Howard County seeks to jump-start plans for Columbia lakefront library, affordable housing
Howard County Executive Calvin Ball on Thursday announced steps to jump-start plans for a lakefront library and new affordable housing units in Columbia — top priorities on which there had seemingly been little progress.
The Columbia Lakefront near the Mall in Columbia, Md. on Friday, May 2, 2025.
Raskin calls for Maryland to fight back against GOP redistricting
U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland called on his state to fight back against GOP-led redistricting efforts across the country.
U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) speaks at a rally outside of the Department of Health and Human Services on February 19, 2025 in Washington, DC.
Baltimore County councilman calls for review of school’s AI gun-detection system
Julian Jones wants a review of the events that led to “police officers pulling up on a kid with guns drawn.”
Police were called to Kenwood High School after gun-detection software mistook a bag of chips for a weapon.
Maryland officials sound alarm on data centers’ $100 billion power grid suck
The rapid rise of data centers is hitting the region’s power grid. Maryland lawmakers are concerned that utility ratepayers will pay the $100 billion price for them.
An existing set of transmission lines cuts through the landscape near the start of the proposed route of the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project (MPRP) in northern Baltimore County.
White House East Wing demolished as Trump moves forward with ballroom construction
The entire White House East Wing has been demolished as President Donald Trump moves forward with a ballroom construction, Associated Press photos on Thursday showed.
Construction workers, bottom right, atop the U.S. Treasury, watch as work continues on a largely demolished part of the East Wing of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025, in Washington, before construction of a new ballroom.
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