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COLUMN | What if this isn’t about parents’ rights and school bureaucrats? What if the lawsuit and threats to cut off school funding over pronouns and names are about seizing control of schools from local communities? Parents should be asking a lot of tough questions.

The purchase comes six weeks after Gov. Wes Moore’s administration first sought to buy the branding — exercising its first right of refusal in matching an offer from racing industry giant Churchill Downs Inc.

Students unenrolled from Howard University last week may now receive financial and application support from the University System of Maryland.

SNAP cuts under the Trump-supported federal law leave 36,000 Marylanders without food benefits, affecting families, seniors and vulnerable groups.

The testimony comes one day after the U.S. Education and Justice departments alleged that Anne Arundel County’s school system violated federal student privacy law by withholding a student’s gender identity from their parents.

COLUMN | Jen Pauliukonis is collecting data on gun violence in the state as no one has before.

Taylor Print & Visual Impressions, the company responsible for a Maryland mail ballot printing error that led to the reissue of about 447,000 ballots, assured state election officials that new safeguards and procedures have been implemented.

The Banner reported this week that Maryland has one of the highest rates of killings in state-run correctional facilities in the nation. Since 2023, 32 incarcerated people have been killed in state institutions, more than all neighboring states combined.

Freedom Caucus success can take different forms depending on which party is in charge, said Matthew Green, a politics professor at The Catholic University of America, who has studied the caucuses’ spread across the country.

Most eye-popping among the findings was the state’s failure to terminate SNAP benefits for a person who won a $2 million lottery prize in July 2023.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore discusses his love of ’90s hip-hop, Baltimore and more on a new episode of the music trivia series “Track Star.”

Whether or not the federal government foots 100% of the bill for the Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild is ultimately up to members of Congress. Gov. Wes Moore took several of them on a construction tour Monday.

“I am the only African American governor in the country right now, but that’s not a title that I’m proud of,” Moore said. “I don’t want to hold on to that title for very long.”

As President Trump prepares to give a primetime speech on Thursday, Maryland Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox is trying to distance himself from past challenges to the 2020 election.

An attorney for Smith sent Moore and his communications staff a letter on June 29 demanding that Moore retract a statement and apologize.

State police and corrections officials are conducting a “potential criminal misconduct” investigation into staff at a Western Maryland prison after the latest in a rash of killings of prisoners across the state.

A three-member Maryland Democratic Party committee will discuss Ronald Rosenbluth’s fate Wednesday.

COLUMN | To win in Maryland's most Democratic counties, Republicans will try to distance themselves from toxic parts of the national and state party. It’s not always easy.

Five days after the U.S. Department of Justice sued Maryland over its Community Trust Act, Attorney General Anthony Brown is defending the state’s immigration policy, arguing it is consistent with the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court precedent.

COLUMN | Maryland isn't perfect. But with its approach to vaccines, as seen in the recent Vax Act, and other issues like trans and voting rights, it's the Common Sense State.