State government

Legislative services, the department responsible for writing the bills, confirmed receiving more than 700 requests in the last two days before the deadline — a new record.

“It is constitutional, it is available, and it is the right thing to do," Apple wrote in a letter of support.

These two military proposals represent the first public discussion of any of his legislative priorities.

The Orioles are in the midst of trying to negotiate a long-term deal with the state to stay at Camden Yards and use their share of $1.2 billion set aside for improvements.

The caucus wants to remove cannabis-related fines and fees and eliminate cannabis odor as a reason for law enforcement stops and searches. Profits from cannabis businesses, they urge, need to be directed back into the communities that have been most affected by the drug’s criminalization.

The powerful Board of Public Works — composed of the governor, comptroller and treasurer, all Democrats — has the final say on how billions of dollars are spent each year, signing off on major state contracts. The board also approves activities on state lands and in state waters.

Legislators seem committed to fostering equitable access to the emerging legal market.

Dawn Flythe Moore, who made history when she became Maryland’s first Black first lady, brings to her new role a background of working in state government in Annapolis. She's well positioned to take on the responsibilities and challenges, a Goucher College political science professor says.

Nominee Paul J. Wiedefeld previously ran BWI Thurgood Marshall International Airport and D.C.’s Metro system.

An investigation found “widespread violations” of the requirements for using a roughly $1 million AmeriCorps grant from 2016.

The Democratic president will tout federal funding to replace an aging rail tunnel that slows MARC and Amtrak trains.

The 988 phone hotline already routes Maryland residents to suicide and prevention experts on standby instead of the 911 police response during a mental health crisis.

Weekly political news and notes from around Baltimore and Maryland.

The budget plan does not include tax increases, and keeps $2.5 billion in the state’s Rainy Day Fund.

Carmen Roques is the next executive to lead the Maryland Department of Aging after the past 10 years as the CEO of Keswick Multi-Care, a large not-for-profit short-term rehabilitation facility and continuing care retirement community in Baltimore.

On his first full day in office, the governor held a private meeting with U.S. Attorney for Maryland Erek L. Barron and Attorney General Anthony Brown to discuss crime and violence.

The Maryland General Assembly authorized the funding last year, but former Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, used his legal power to ensure it wasn’t spent.

A team of former Navy SEALs designed a technology platform to stop mass shootings.

Gov. Wes Moore has the opportunity to provide balance on spending and taxation, a Towson University political science faculty member says; a visitor to the Baltimore Museum of Art on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday says she was disappointed to find the museum closed.

”Tonight, celebrate this great state,” Moore told the crowd. ”Celebrate your neighbors. We are Maryland because of each other not in spite of.”