Baltimore County Council Votes Itself a 74% Raise Weeks Before the Election
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Baltimore County Council voted Monday night to raise its own pay by nearly 74 percent,...
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Baltimore’s Top Internal Affairs Officer Is Now the One Under Investigation
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE — For nearly seven years, Brian Nadeau occupied one of the most consequential...
The Council Reinvents Itself: Baltimore County Faces Historic Turnover
By MDBayNews Staff TOWSON, Md. — Baltimore County voters approved a lot more than new district lines when they passed...
Rutledge Uses Sparrows Point Crash to Press Brown on Juvenile Crime, as a New Youth Charging Law Nears Its Oct. 1 Start
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. — Republican attorney general nominee Jim Rutledge is using a...
Judge Orders Baltimore to Restore Inspector General’s Access, Rejects City’s “Unfettered Access” Defense
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE — A Baltimore judge put teeth into her ruling against Mayor Brandon Scott's...
Rutledge Says Back River Plant Is ‘An Epic Failure,’ Presses Brown on Enforcement
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BEL AIR, MD — Republican attorney general nominee Jim Rutledge called Baltimore's Back...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Six MPD Employees Charged in $441,000 Overtime Fraud Scheme — More Than a Year After the Warning Signs Surfaced
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Six current and former members of the Metropolitan Police Department are facing arrest...
Another Dock Street Business Closes. This Time, the Jobs Lost Belong to Workers Who Have the Hardest Time Finding New Ones
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS, Md. Bitty & Beau's Coffee will pour its last cup on Dock Street next month,...
Camden Yards Emerges as Front-Runner for 2030 MLB All-Star Game, 37 Years After Its Last Turn
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Baltimore has not hosted a Major League Baseball All-Star Game since Bill Clinton's first...
What Maryland Didn’t Consider
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Maryland On the Map The Wednesday press conference produced three things Maryland needed:...
The Bet That Already Lost
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Breaking — August 3, 2026This morning, Churchill Downs Incorporated and the New York...
Two Regulators, One Gas Company: DC and Maryland Both Weigh Washington Gas Pipe Spending This Week
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Washington Gas is facing scrutiny from utility regulators in two jurisdictions this week,...
Paying Twice: The Federal Deal Costing Maryland Ratepayers Hundreds Of Millions For Two Anne Arundel Power Plants
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Every Baltimore Gas and Electric customer — 1.2 million households and businesses across...
Bates Says Maryland’s Juvenile System Is “Broken.” The Cases He’s Pointing To Show Why He’s Not Alone.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Baltimore City State's Attorney Ivan Bates posted a statement on X Thursday declaring that...
Why FIFA Really Passed Over Baltimore — And Whether the City Has Caught Up
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When FIFA announced its 16 World Cup host cities on June 16, 2022, the Baltimore-Washington...
Baltimore Wasn’t Spared — It Was Passed Over
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Inner Harbor was packed last weekend. Tourists elbow to elbow, families along the...
Ferguson Survives — But the Margin Is the Message
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Bill Ferguson is going back to Annapolis. The Maryland Senate President declared victory...
A Sun Veteran’s Exit, and What It Says About Who’s Left
By MDBayNews Staff Jeff Barker did not leave quietly. He announced his resignation from The Baltimore Sun on Monday in a...
Stars, Stripes, and a Stunner: America’s 250th Ends With Gaethje Champion on the White House Lawn
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews It started with the sky and ended with the sky — and in between, on the South Lawn of the...
Baltimore’s $75,000 Spin Doctor Went to War With a Restaurant Website
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Baltimore City’s rapid response press secretary went to war this week — with a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
They Came for the Watchdog
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming made a mistake last weekend. She shared...
The Baltimore Machine — Part II: Big Tommy and the Mechanics of Power
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Before Washington had a Speaker named Nancy Pelosi, Baltimore had a mayor known as “Big...
The Baltimore Machine That Never Really Left
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Nancy Pelosi was not just born in Baltimore. She was born into it. Before she became...
Downtown Baltimore’s Revitalization Hits Reality: Big Promises, Bigger Headwinds
By MDBayNews Staff Baltimore’s political leadership has spent the past two years promising a “comeback story” for...
Baltimore SAO Announces Guilty Plea in Federal Hill Bouncer Assault Case
By MDBayNews Staff The Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office announced Monday that a guilty plea has been secured in...
The Spy From Baltimore
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews In the long corridors of Maryland power — from Annapolis to Fort Meade, from the Port of...