DOJ Sues Maryland Over Community Trust Act — Second Federal Challenge in Six Weeks
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The U.S. Department of Justice sued Maryland and Attorney General Anthony Brown on July 9,...
Government Transparency & Accountability
Maryland Democrats Already Ran This Play — Just One Level Down the Ballot
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Senate President Bill Ferguson and House Speaker Joseline Peña-Melnyk say the special...
Annapolis Doesn’t Pay to Play. Marylanders Do.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland families are getting squeezed from every direction this summer — a property tax...
Moore’s ICE Scare Tactic Was Already Out of Date When It Aired
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On a soundstage in California, taped weeks before it ever reached a Maryland screen,...
Moore Debates 20 Non-Voters on YouTube While a Bill to Open Maryland’s Debate Stage Died Without a Vote
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore spent his Sunday morning on "Surrounded," a debate program from the...
Governor Moore’s Disability Pride Month Message Runs Into His Own Budget Record
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore's official account marked the start of Disability Pride Month with a...
Maryland Ranks Last in Court Reporter Pay. No One Is Tracking What That Costs Litigants.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On May 26, 2026, New York's Court of Appeals confronted a transcript so defective it was...
Moore’s Own Supervisor Says Governor Did Not Receive Bronze Star — and Was Not in Afghanistan When Fellow Soldier Died
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The officer who supervised Wes Moore during his Afghanistan deployment says the governor...
What Wes Moore Didn’t Say After Winning Maryland’s Primary
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Wes Moore won his primary Tuesday night. By Wednesday morning, he was everywhere —...
Building Bridges to Liberia While Baltimore Waits for Its Own
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On June 24, 2026 — the morning after Maryland's Democratic primary returned him a...
The Governor’s Market
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When Maryland's Appellate Court issued its ruling on September 9, 2025, the caption told...
MARYLAND DEMOCRATS PLAN POST-PRIMARY SPECIAL SESSION TO REDRAW CONGRESSIONAL MAP
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews With Maryland's primary election two days away, the state's top Democrats are preparing to...
The Governor Bought a Horse Race
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On Thursday, with five days remaining before a primary election, Governor Wes Moore's...
Moore Responds to Military Record Scrutiny — Without Addressing It
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore published a personal essay Monday on Substack titled "The Only Thing...
Moore’s Office Disputes Dialog Ties. The Record Doesn’t.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When a data leak exposed the internal membership records of Dialog — a secretive,...
Audits Flag $1.2 Billion in Questionable Maryland Spending. Moore Says the Number Is Wrong.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland state agencies have collectively accumulated more than $1.2 billion in...
Moore Calls Scrutiny of His Combat Record “Slanderous.” He Still Hasn’t Named a Soldier.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Baltimore Banner published a review of Gov. Wes Moore's military record Thursday...
Moore Signs Immigrant Rights Executive Order — While Letting Stronger Protections Sit Unsigned
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore signed an executive order Friday creating the Maryland Immigrant Rights...
Baltimore’s City Jail Is Still Holding People After Judges Order Them Free
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When a judge in Baltimore signs a release order, the law says the person in custody must go...
Purple Line Delay Grows to 78 Days as MTA Milestone Chart Stays Frozen
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's perpetually delayed Purple Line is slipping further behind schedule, according...
Maryland’s Other June Awareness Month
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews June is PTSD Awareness Month. It arrives in Maryland alongside Men's Health Month and Men's...
Maryland’s Men’s Health Month Problem
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews In February 2025, Governor Wes Moore stood before the General Assembly and made an...
Maryland’s Ballot Replacement Is Done. Now Officials Say They May Count the Originals Anyway.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The replacement ballots are in the mail. The crisis, by Maryland's official account, is...
Maryland Is Still Hiding Its Missing Foster Children — We’ve Been Asking for Seven Months
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On Wednesday morning, Maryland's Department of Human Services confirmed to Spotlight on...
MARYLAND’S AG WAS PRAISED BY VANCE TWO WEEKS AGO. NOW HE’S SIGNED A LETTER REFUSING THE WHITE HOUSE.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Two weeks ago, Vice President JD Vance stood at a White House podium and held Maryland up...
FBI Steps In as Cecil County Sheriff’s Deputies Face Federal Scrutiny Over Recorded Sexual Assault Threat Against County Executive
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The FBI has opened an investigation into four Cecil County Sheriff's Office employees...
Maryland’s Juvenile Crime Wave: What the Numbers Actually Show — and Who’s Responsible
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The incident at the Navy Yard Chipotle in Washington, D.C. — a mob of teenagers...
Crabs Are Back. Moore Didn’t Bring Them.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When Maryland DNR released the results of its annual Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Winter...
Maryland’s Mail-In Ballot Crisis Is Bigger Than a Vendor Error
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's State Board of Elections is asking voters to trust that its systems will catch...
The Governor Who Takes Credit for Everything — Except What Went Wrong
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore is running for reelection on a record he has spent three years carefully...
Moore Calls It a Comeback. Baltimore City’s Numbers Call It Something Else.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore's communications team knows what it's doing. On Thursday, the governor's...
Maryland Is Bleeding Money. Voters Have a Choice.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews — Maryland on the Map Mail-in ballots are already in circulation. The Republican primary...
Maryland Is Trying to Buy Back a Race It Never Should Have Lost
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews — Maryland on the Map Maryland is quietly trying to spend another $85 million. According...
Maryland Spent $1.2 Billion on Baltimore’s Stadiums. What Are the Teams Spending on Baltimore’s Kids?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Correction: An earlier version of this article understated the Baltimore Ravens' education...
Did Churchill Downs Give Wes Moore Buyer’s Remorse?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews — Maryland on the Map When Governor Wes Moore announced Maryland's plan to purchase...
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...
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...
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...
Baltimore Got Safer. Maryland Didn’t.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On Saturday, Governor Wes Moore formally launched his 2026 reelection campaign at the...
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...