Maryland’s Own Websites Haven’t Caught Up to Its Bond Rating Shakeup
By Greg Visscher | MDBayNews | Guest Contribution Maryland's official budget website still tells residents the state holds...
Government Transparency & Accountability
Millions in Fraud, Dozens of Defendants: Maryland’s Reckoning Under the Federal Crackdown
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that a Towson pharmacy company will pay more than...
Green Party Candidate Says MPT Chairman’s Donations to Moore Raise Conflict of Interest Questions
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE, Md. — Green Party gubernatorial candidate Andy Ellis is accusing the head of...
GOP Delegate Nominee: Maryland’s Watchdogs Keep Getting Blocked by the Governments They’re Supposed to Police
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Two Maryland governments got caught this year restricting the very people whose job is to...
Why Maryland Counties Can’t Create New Taxes on Their Own
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The county leaders who testified at Monday's revenue task force hearing were asking the...
Behind the Records Fight: What Baltimore City Says About Its Own Watchdog
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE — Monday's appellate ruling was another procedural win for Inspector General...
Baltimore’s New Public Safety Agency Arrives Amid Fraud Fallout, a Records Fight and a Council Shake-Up
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Mayor Brandon Scott and City Council President Zeke Cohen announced legislation Monday to...
Maryland’s Reparations Commission Is Taking Shape. It’s Also a Different Commission Than Lawmakers Passed.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — A state commission that took years to authorize is finally close to...
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...
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...
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,...
Maryland Officials React to Court Ruling Restoring FBI Headquarters to Greenbelt
Maryland leaders began responding Monday to the federal court decision striking down the Trump administration's attempt to...
Introducing New Maryland: A Modest Proposal for the Rest of Us
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Let's get the disclaimer out of the way first, because someone in Annapolis is already...
The Commission Was Silent. A Soldier Wasn’t.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Maryland on the Map The Maryland Racing Commission held its monthly meeting on Wednesday,...
How a $375 Million Plan Became a $715 Million Problem
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Maryland on the Map Before Churchill Downs. Before the Preakness IP. Before the NBC deal...
What Maryland Didn’t Consider
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Maryland On the Map The Wednesday press conference produced three things Maryland needed:...
Pimlico Has No Plan for the Other 364 Days
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A source texted Fox Baltimore's Chris Papst this week after the Preakness was excluded from...
A Senator, a Sidewalk Tree, and Three Days of Silence: Should Anthony Muse Resign?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Three days after a state senator's SUV ended up parked against a tree in Annapolis, the...
Power Over People: How Annapolis Rewrote the Rules — and What It Ignored to Do It
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Maryland General Assembly closed its three-day special session Tuesday night having...
What CDI Does With Tracks It Owns
Churchill Downs has a documented playbook for acquired racing assets: acquire, extract value, close the original venue,...
The Bet That Already Lost
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Breaking — August 3, 2026This morning, Churchill Downs Incorporated and the New York...
The $9 Million Everyone’s Talking About: What Maryland’s Dream Act Actually Costs — and Doesn’t
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Since the Justice Department filed suit against Maryland on July 17 over its Dream Act, one...
Republicans Won’t Boycott the Special Session. They’ll Just Talk About Everything Else.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Senate Minority Leader Steve Hershey wants one thing clear before the Aug. 3-5 special...
Maryland Democrats Answer DHS With a Lawsuit — While a Small Town Sits on a Records Request Nine Months Overdue
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When Republican Del. Ryan Nawrocki told Fox45 two weeks ago that Maryland "will not comply"...
Live-Wire Testing Begins on the Purple Line. MTA’s Own Filing Says Nothing Changed — While Disclosing That It Did.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Crews began live-wire testing on the Purple Line this week, running light-rail vehicles...
The Count Behind the Count: Maryland’s Homelessness Numbers Are Getting Worse, Not Better
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On a single night in January 2025, 7,120 Marylanders had no home. That's 1,051 more people...
Seven Stops, Five States, Three Weeks: Where Wes Moore Has Been While Maryland Waits on Affordability
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — On the same day House and Senate Republicans stood in Annapolis calling a...
The Memo That Locked Everyone Else Out Just Let Bouchat In
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews — Part of The Bouchat Paradox series Christopher Eric Bouchat has spent three sessions...
Wes Moore Told Randi Weingarten He Was “Humbled” to Follow Her. His Own Biography Argues Against Her.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore closed out the American Federation of Teachers' national convention in...
Maryland’s Corrections System Is Collapsing — And It Didn’t Happen by Accident
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews You don't need to repeal a law to kill it. You just need to make sure no one can enforce...
What Governor Moore’s $13.3 Billion Announcement Left Out
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore announced this week that the results of PJM's latest capacity auction "saved...
A County of a Million, Decided by 52,738 Votes
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Montgomery County — home to more than one million residents, the largest county budget in...
Every Drive Is Now a Record. Maryland Hasn’t Reckoned With What That Means.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Lee Schmidt and Crystal Arrington aren't criminals. Neither has ever been named a suspect...
Maryland’s Roads Rank Among the Worst in the Country. Here’s What the Data Says Is Actually Wrong With Them.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland doesn't have the single worst roads in America. But three separate national...
Maryland’s Road Money Is Locked Up By Law — And Nobody’s Fixing It
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews State budget data shows 75.1 percent of Maryland commuters drive alone or carpool. Only 5...
Maryland’s Gaming Regulators Let the Casino Lobby Write Their Homework. Would We Say the Same If It Were Oil and Gas?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Here's a test worth running on any story about industry influence in government: swap the...
Texas Lost Its Dream Act in Court. Maryland’s Voters Already Defended Its Own.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews In a 2-1 ruling handed down July 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held...
Maryland Built a Legal Wall Against ICE Surveillance Data. Is Anyone Checking If It Holds?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Nobody in Maryland has smashed a Flock Safety camera. Nobody has cut one down with vice...
Maryland’s Economy Isn’t Growing. The Numbers Say Something Sharper.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland officials have spent much of the past year touting job growth numbers as evidence...