State government

Outside City Hall on Thursday, Burnett said he’s hanging up his lawmaking hat next cycle. “I definitely don’t want to be an elected official anymore,” the progressive Democrat said with a laugh.

Nonprofit hospitals can put into place a stopgap measure to help cover care for people ineligible for health insurance, such as those without documentation, say people familiar with a Johns Hopkins program that serves uninsured East Baltimore residents.

Several new laws go into effect Thursday in Maryland. See which ones in this roundup from our media partners at WYPR.

Maryland can build on the progress begun under the Affordable Care Act to provide health care coverage and lower prescription drug costs for more state residents, says Vincent DeMarco, president of the Maryland Health Care for All! Coalition.

Three University of Maryland Medical Center clinicians say they are committed to ensuring access to abortion as health care in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion.

Attorneys say state officials have “illegally and unconstitutionally” housed foster children in hospitals and restrictive institutions beyond medical necessity.

Messaging from Mayor Brandon Scott’s administration in the days leading up to Memorial Day weekend — when enforcement of the city’s long-standing curfew kicks off again — has been muddled and at times misleading.

Maryland taxpayers footed a $200,000 bill for a state government hospitality tent at the Preakness Stakes. Officials say the tent, a practice for several years, is a chance to show business prospects what Maryland has to offer.

“A threat to any history is a threat to all history,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore told graduates of Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday, stepping into the national debate over conservative attempts to restrict teaching of race, sexuality and other issues.

As thoroughbred horses thundered around Pimlico Race Course at Preakness 2023, politicians considered what could — or should — be done about the future of the track and the racing industry.

Merchants in the business corridor surrounding Pimlico Race Course want to expand business and community development opportunities on Preakness day and beyond, Yeshiyah Israel, president of the Pimlico Merchants Association, says.

From dispensing graduation advice to raising funds, here’s this week’s look at what Maryland politicians are up to.

Maryland’s state school board will decide in the coming months whether to give Mohammed Choudhury a new, four-year contract as superintendent when his ends on June 30, 2024.

A 20-year-old man has been walking in his Anne Arundel County neighborhood with a fully loaded assault-style weapon to protest a new Maryland gun law. It’s terrifying kids and parents

Law enforcement will no longer be able to stop a vehicle or person in Maryland solely based on the smell of cannabis, under a bill that will become law without Gov. Wes Moore’s signature.

We dumped “Maryland, My Maryland” with good reason in 2021. It was a dumb, racist song written by a traitor and irredeemably associated by everyone with Christmas. It was long overdue for the dustbin. Do we require a new state song? Well, no. But do we need one? Hell, yes.

The Georgia-based vendor has low federal quality ratings and abuse allegations in other facilities it runs.

Gov. Wes Moore signed bills into law that restrict who can apply for concealed carry handgun permits and where handguns can be carried. A short time later, the NRA filed a lawsuit saying the new regulations are unconstitutional.

Decriminalizing drug paraphernalia is one step Maryland can take toward ending policies that have failed to curb an epidemic of drug-related deaths, says Jessie Dunleavy, an advocate for drug policy reform.

A 2020 plan to redevelop Pimlico Race Course and Laurel Park fell apart due to a variety of factors. Now racing industry stakeholders are negotiating a new plan, and they’re considering boosting Pimlico as the year-round home of thoroughbred racing.