Tonya Sweat Lost Her Ballot Case in Circuit Court. She’s Not Giving Up Yet.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Moisette "Tonya" Sweat's bid to appear on the November ballot as an independent challenger...
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Redistricting Case Not Over: Emergency Motion Filed as Circuit Courts Face Friday Deadline to Implement Supreme Court Order
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Full text of Thursday's order shows the Supreme Court remanded both cases rather than...
Supreme Court Rules Redistricting Question Stays on Ballot, Orders Ballot Language Rewritten
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — The Supreme Court of Maryland ruled Thursday evening that voters will get to...
Two Weapons Incidents at Magruder in One Morning Reopen Montgomery County’s SRO Fight
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Montgomery County police were called to Col. Zadok Magruder High School in Derwood shortly...
Maryland Supreme Court Hears Redistricting Arguments, No Ruling Yet as Ballot Printing Deadline Arrives
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — The Supreme Court of Maryland heard oral arguments Thursday morning in the...
The Delegate Whose Own Business Fled the Tax Won’t Be Around to Revisit It
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews LEONARDTOWN — This week's news that Maryland's IT services tax collected 77% less than...
Maryland’s New Tech Tax Brought In 77% Less Than Promised. Business Groups Want It Gone.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — Maryland's new tax on business IT and data services closed its first full...
While Marylanders Pay Near-Record Prices at the Pump, Refiners Are Posting Their Best Quarter Since 2022
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews FREDERICK, MD — President Trump summoned about a dozen oil refining executives to the...
Maryland’s ERs Are Still the Slowest in the Country. Half Its Hospitals Have Quietly Gotten Faster Anyway.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland patients have waited longer in hospital emergency rooms than...
A Viral Post Says Three Judges Conspired Against a Father. The Court Record Says Something Narrower.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A Facebook post accusing three sitting Montgomery County judges of coordinated retaliation...
A Decade of Red Line Promises, and Baltimore Is Still Waiting on the Bus
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Jonathan Sacks runs a community development corporation in Edmondson, the West Baltimore...
Moore Proclaims Child Support Awareness Month. The Enforcement Gap It Ignores Gets No Mention.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore and Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller have proclaimed August 2026 National Child Support...
How Montgomery County Police Went From Turning Away Recruits to Begging for Them
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews There was a time, not that long ago, when the Montgomery County Police Department didn't...
Montgomery County Disbanded Its DUI Unit. Hours Later, Two People Died in a Wrong-Way Crash.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The timing is not something anyone in Montgomery County government chose, and it does not...
UMD Let Its Own “Terps” Trademark Lapse for Nearly Three Years. Now It Wants a Cannabis Company to Stop Using the Name.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews COLLEGE PARK — For all of 2023, 2024 and 2025, and into January of this year, the...
A Community Meeting Meant to Reassure Instead Turned Into a Standoff
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A meeting billed as a chance for Gaithersburg and Montgomery Village residents to hear...
Maryland Ranks 7th Nationally for Lifetime Tax Burden, New Study Finds
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A Marylander who works 45 years and lives to the average life expectancy will hand over...
Corporate Profits Are Booming. Maryland Workers Should Ask Where Their Share Went.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Corporate America is having a very good year. U.S. corporate profits reached an annualized...
Moore Calls $28.5 Million in EV Grants “Lowering Costs.” Maryland’s Electric-Bus Record Deserves More Scrutiny.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore has a new answer to rising gas prices: spend $28.5 million funding...
Second Judge Strikes Down Redistricting Amendment, Citing Contradiction in Bill’s Own Preamble
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews CAMBRIDGE — A Dorchester County Circuit Court judge ruled Friday that Maryland's proposed...
Riley Presses Raskin Over His Support for Michigan Senate Candidate El-Sayed
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Republican congressional candidate Cheryl Riley spent part of this week pressing Rep. Jamie...
A Sewage Closure Becomes a Campaign Ad Within the Hour in Howard County
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Guilford Elementary School in Columbia shut its doors Wednesday morning, the third day of...
What “Meeting Expenses” Buys: A Look Inside Maryland Campaign Spending
Maryland campaign finance reports do not require candidates to explain themselves. A committee can log a $3,000 charge to a...
Judge Strikes Down Redistricting Ballot Question, Stays Ruling Pending Supreme Court Appeal
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — An Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge ruled Wednesday that Maryland...
Moore and Miller Want ICE Coordination After Maryland Restricted Local Immigration Enforcement
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller are criticizing recent federal...
Maryland’s Voter Rolls Are Shifting: Democrats Shrink as Unaffiliated Voters Surge
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland remains a heavily Democratic state, but the makeup of its...
Maryland’s Next Payroll Tax Is Coming in 2027 — A Year Before Benefits Begin
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland workers and businesses have another mandatory cost coming, and it will show up...
While Van Hollen Kicks the Tires in New Hampshire, Who Is Minding Maryland?
By Michael Phillips, MDBayNews Sen. Chris Van Hollen sat across from Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press" this past Sunday...
What the Supreme Court Actually Ruled on Mail Voting
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's top Democrats wasted no time reacting to Monday's Supreme Court order on...
Baltimore Ranks Second-Worst Real Estate Market in the Country, New Study Finds
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE, Md. — Baltimore's housing market landed near the bottom of a new national...
A Federal Court Just Admitted the Piedmont “Emergency” Might Be Fake. It Let PSEG Bulldoze Your Land Anyway.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Part of The New Land Wars series Charlotte Hetterick runs an organic farm in Carroll...
The Maryland Nonprofit Behind the Lawsuit That Just Knocked Out Trump’s 75-Country Visa Suspension
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A federal judge has struck down one of the Trump administration’s broadest immigration...
Maryland Schools Are Being Asked to Do Everything — Even Potty Training
By MDBayNews Staff Anne Arundel County Public Schools is expanding support for young students who arrive at school not...
While the WNBA Fights Over Sophie Cunningham, Maryland Quietly Stays the Course
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has spent the back half of the WNBA season as the...
Still Closed: Largo’s $10 Million Plaza, Two and a Half Months Later
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Wayne K. Curry Civic Plaza in Largo has been finished for eight months. It has been...
Maryland Democrats Can’t Decide Whether the Economy Is Booming or Collapsing
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland Democrats have developed a remarkably convenient economic theory: when the numbers...
Who Actually Paid for the New M&T Bank Stadium
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Ravens unveiled the finished version of their stadium this month. Three years of...
Maryland Has 240 Bridges Rated “Structurally Deficient.” None of Them Was the Key Bridge.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Two and a half years after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River,...
Three Governors, One Script: Texas, Maryland and Pennsylvania Are All Suddenly Cracking Down on Data Centers
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro stood in Harrisburg on Tuesday and told data center...
So, a Rabid Maryland Beaver Is Coming at You. Now What?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland has had several recent beaver attacks, including rabies-positive animals. Here’s...