Betting-Industry Money Has Spent $435,000 Against a Moderate Republican With No Known Gambling Position. Why?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews American Future's biggest general-election target in Maryland is a Republican state Senate...
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Maryland Payrolls Fall Again in September, Down 20,100 Jobs in Two Months
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland had an estimated 8,800 fewer payroll jobs in September than in August, and the...
Win for America Discloses $80.65 Million in Sportsbook Funding as a Recipient PAC Spends $3.67 Million on Maryland Races
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Win for America, the political group financed by the online sportsbook industry, registered...
Maryland’s Sports Betting Haul Hit $132 Million. The New Fiscal Year Is Starting Slower.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's sportsbooks sent $132.3 million to the state in fiscal year 2026, a 48.8 percent...
One Rockville-Based Filer Accounts for More Than Half of Maryland’s H-1B Approvals
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Trump administration on Thursday suspended eight employers, including Tata Consultancy...
Green Party’s Ellis Calls for Statewide Data Center Ban as Moore Signs Executive Order
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE — Andy Ellis, the Green Party nominee for governor, called Wednesday for a...
Moore Orders Data Center Review and a Public Dashboard, but No Pause and No Repeal Yet
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore signed an executive order Wednesday that sets one review process for large...
Moore Rolls Out New “AI Principles” as Marylanders Wait on Tax Answers
Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore's office posted a new policy document this week called "AI Principles," a...
The Coalition Maryland Hasn’t Called Yet
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews While Maryland's Racing Commission held its August meeting largely in silence and the...
Behind the Jobs Numbers: Maryland’s Layoff List Keeps Growing in 2026
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews PepsiCo is walking away from a Cheverly bottling plant that has run for more than 60 years,...
Moore Says Marylanders Are Right to Worry About AI. He Won’t Say What He’d Do About It.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews PIKESVILLE, Md. — Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, says Marylanders have good reason to be...
From Tragedy to Statute: How 9/11 Reshaped Maryland’s Security Apparatus
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, much of Maryland's modern homeland-security...
Maryland’s Jobs Are Coming Back. The State’s Own Choices Keep Getting in the Way.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's private employers added nearly 11,000 jobs in July, the strongest single month...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Why the Commanders Are Selling Redskins Gear Again — And It’s Not About Bringing the Name Back
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews If you wandered into the Washington Commanders team store this week, you might have done a...
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...
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...
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...
One in Five BGE Customers Is Behind on Utility Bills. Maryland’s Affordability Problem Is Getting Harder to Ignore.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland’s energy affordability problem is showing up in a number that should get...
The 2029 Promise: What Offshore Wind Boosters Aren’t Telling You
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Energy & Environment A pro-offshore-wind coalition has been showing up at Eastern...
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,...
Wallops Industry Day Tackles Housing and Workforce. The State’s Funding Fight Got Left Off the Agenda.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Salisbury University's Guerrieri Academic Commons hosted "Innovating Together: Building...
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...
Maryland’s Digital Ad Tax Just Got Thrown Out. Here’s What Happens to the Money.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's first-in-the-nation tax on digital advertising is dead, at least for now, and...
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 Moore Announced — And What Comes Next
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore held his press conference Wednesday. It was, by the standards of...
$10 Million on the Line: White Marlin Open Reels In Anglers, Celebrities and Big Money to Ocean City
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews OCEAN CITY, Md. — For the 53rd straight summer, this barrier-island town has traded its...
The Hand They’re Not Playing: How Maryland Can Rebuild Horse Racing After the Preakness Shake-Up
Maryland owns the assets, the history, and the window. What it needs is a strategy — and someone willing to make the...
What CDI Does With Tracks It Owns
Churchill Downs has a documented playbook for acquired racing assets: acquire, extract value, close the original venue,...
Nine Minutes. One Question.
CDI and NYRA spent the day defending their new championship series — and confirming, almost in spite of themselves,...
Blindsided, Again
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Editor's Note: MDBayNews published this morning, at approximately 11:30 am, the first...