The Governor Who Can’t Afford to Be Honest
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Brandon Scott endorsed Bill Ferguson this week. That's not surprising — the two have...
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A Child Is Dead. It Was the Third Fall From the Same Building in Less Than a Year.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A 2-year-old girl fell roughly ten stories from a high-rise apartment building on the 9300...
Calling It Racist Doesn’t Make It Wrong
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A political ad depicting Will Jawando reaching into a cookie jar labeled "Taxpayers'...
The Preakness Doesn’t Need the Derby Winner. It Needs a Reason to Matter.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews — Maryland on the Map The skip announcement came four days after the Kentucky Derby. It...
Brown Invokes Military Values. His Record Tells a Different Story.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown marked National Military Appreciation Month this...
Swastika on Campaign Sign Triggers Homeland Security Review as Maryland Antisemitism Incidents Mount
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A campaign sign for Greg Holmes, a candidate for Prince George's County Executive, was...
SPLC Under Federal Indictment — And Its Curriculum Is in Maryland Classrooms
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On April 21, a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, returned an 11-count indictment...
Derby Winners Are Skipping the Preakness. Maryland Is Spending $400 Million on It Anyway.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews — Maryland on the Map On Wednesday morning, Cherie DeVaux Racing posted a statement to...
The Leak Nobody Reported: How Joint Base Andrews Lost 32,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel — and Maryland Didn’t Find Out for Months
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Sometime last December, a refueling system at Joint Base Andrews failed a pressure safety...
EPA Completes Potomac Cleanup Ahead of Schedule. Wes Moore Is Still Silent.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Wednesday that the federal cleanup of the Potomac...
Montgomery County Executive Candidate Falls for Fake Campaign Finance Screenshot
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A candidate running for Montgomery County Executive publicly accused a political opponent...
Moore Celebrated a 2030 Port Terminal on Friday. But Last Tuesday, He Fired the Bridge Contractor.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On Friday, May 1, Governor Wes Moore stood at Coke Point in Dundalk and declared a new...
Maryland’s Protective Order System Has Failed Before. It Will Again.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Robert MacMeekin drove his daughter to a Baltimore County courthouse on Saturday morning to...
Baltimore Got Safer. Maryland Didn’t.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On Saturday, Governor Wes Moore formally launched his 2026 reelection campaign at the...
Bureaucracy Over Kids: Baltimore Adds Admin Jobs While One District Gets No Rec Centers
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Councilman Isaac "Yitzy" Schleifer grew up in Baltimore's 5th District, a block off Park...
$12.50 vs. $16.00: Moore’s Utility Promise Doesn’t Survive June
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore has already signed the Utility RELIEF Act, the legislation Democratic...
Moore Kicks Off. The GOP Is Still a No-Show.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore launched the active phase of his reelection campaign today in Baltimore...
Law Day Irony: Maryland’s Top Lawyer Has Failed the Law
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews At 3:07 p.m. today, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown posted a tribute to the rule of...
THE INVISIBLE WORKFORCE
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Every May 1st, labor gets its moment. Unions march. Politicians invoke the dignity of work....
Maryland Spent $450 Million. Churchill Downs Bought the Crown Jewel. Moore Wasn’t Invited.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews This Saturday, as the 152nd Kentucky Derby runs at Churchill Downs, Democratic governors...
Maryland Supreme Court Dismantles Montgomery County’s Gun Carry Ban, Citing Burden on Statewide Travel
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — The Supreme Court of Maryland issued a sweeping but carefully drawn ruling...
Maryland Ranks Among the Most Expensive States for Groceries — And a New Law Probably Won’t Fix That
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland families already know what the data confirm: buying groceries here costs more than...
High Court’s VRA Ruling Exposes Maryland’s Racial Gerrymander — and Democrats’ Hubris
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A landmark Supreme Court ruling handed down Wednesday could reshape Maryland's political...
Maryland’s Officials Keep Jet-Setting Abroad. Where Are the Results?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland taxpayers have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars bankrolling international...
NFL Draft Coming to the National Mall — A Win for DC’s Suburbs, Another Missed Moment for Baltimore
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Washington, D.C., is set to host the 2027 NFL Draft on the National Mall, with the event...
Congress Demands D.C. Crime Data Records — And Maryland Should Be Asking the Same Questions
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is demanding records from the...
Eight Weeks, Three Candidates, One Question: Who Can Actually Challenge Wes Moore?
The Maryland Republican primary for governor is June 23. Hale, Cox, and Myrick are competing for the nomination — but in...
Maryland Prisons Hit a Decade High in Homicides. The State Just Moved 700 More Inmates In.
Inmate killings surged 75 percent last year — the worst in ten years. The Moore administration's response was to close a...
Where Do You Host a Dinner That Someone Just Tried to Kill the President At?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Nobody who attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night expected to...
They Knew — And Didn’t: The Warning That Came Too Late, and the Sister Who Was Already in Maryland
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews WASHINGTON — Cole Tomas Allen sent his family a manifesto minutes before he charged a...
The Dinner Was Over When the Perimeter Broke: A Security Autopsy of the WHCD Shooting
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews WASHINGTON — At approximately 8:40 p.m. Saturday, a gunman was confronted by security...
LaPin Challenges Ferguson to Debate, Discovers Instagram Is Now a Policy Venue
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Baltimore, MD — In what may be the most on-brand political moment of 2026, District 46...
Maryland Paid the Lobbyists Who Wrote the Law That Could Cost Maryland Millions
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland is staring down a $1.4 billion structural deficit. It's cutting $150 million from...
The $150 They’re Bragging About May Be Built on Fraud
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Every month, quietly tucked into your utility bill, there's a charge you probably didn't...
Maryland’s Cyber Problem Is Bigger Than One Offline Database
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's official property records database has been offline for ten days following a...
They Came for the Watchdog
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming made a mistake last weekend. She shared...
Maryland Refused to Act When the Potomac Was Drowning in Sewage. Now It Wants to Sue.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When 240 million gallons of raw sewage began pouring into the Potomac River on January 19,...
MARYLAND’S PORTS FEEL THE SHOCK OF A DISTANT WAR — AND RELIEF ISN’T COMING SOON
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Strait of Hormuz is roughly 7,000 miles from the Port of Baltimore. But the economic...
Maryland’s Water Is Running Out. Virginia’s Data Centers Are Part of Why.
The Potomac hasn't been this low in recorded history. Millions of Marylanders depend on it. And a sprawling industry...
Maryland Owns the Racetrack. Churchill Downs Owns the Race.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews — Maryland on the Map, Part 7 On Monday, Governor Wes Moore announced that Maryland had...