Police Review Found No Threatening Behavior by Rhoda in Damascus Encounter
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A Montgomery County police officer who reviewed video of an October 24 encounter involving...
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Nonpartisan on the Ballot: Unions, a Party Committee and a Super PAC Weigh In on Montgomery’s At-Large School Board Race
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Early voting in Montgomery County runs through Thursday, Oct. 29, and one countywide...
Spencer Rhoda’s Recording of Damascus Exchange Contradicts Chao Wu’s Account. MDBayNews Listened.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A recording of Saturday’s encounter between Delegate Chao Wu and Republican candidate...
Chao Wu Smeared Two Opponents With a Story He Can’t Prove. He Should Retract It Now.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Delegate Chao Wu told voters that a man running against him frightened his young son into...
OPINION: The Case for the Orange Ballot in Frederick County’s School Board Race
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews This is a commentary piece and reflects the view of its author. The Board of Education race...
OPINION: Montgomery County Taxpayers Are Funding a Campaign They Cannot Opt Out Of
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Nobody asked Montgomery County taxpayers whether they wanted to pay for Will Jawando's...
County Taxpayers Have Sent Will Jawando $844,557. His Opponent Raised About $52,000.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Montgomery County taxpayers have put $844,556.95 into Will Jawando's campaign for county...
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,...
Think Tank Backed by Soros Network Names Eight Maryland Counties for More Immigration
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A Washington think tank that has taken $1.65 million from George Soros's Open Society...
Three Weeks After Cutting 415 Positions, MCPS Board Gave Its Chiefs a 6.23 Percent Raise
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. — The Montgomery County Board of Education voted unanimously on...
The Sphere Bond Bill Goes to $215 Million. So Did the Fight Over Who Builds It.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Prince George's County residents who tuned in expecting a final vote on the Sphere at...
Montgomery County GOP Drops Support for District 7 Nominee Over Mossad, 9/11 and JFK Conspiracy Posts
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Harold Maldonado spent four pages this week telling Montgomery County voters he'd been...
Washington County Said Yes to an ICE Facility. A Federal Judge Keeps Saying No.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews WASHINGTON COUNTY — The Department of Homeland Security paid $102.4 million in cash on...
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...
Police Say MCPS Declined to Give Them the Name of a Student Accused of Kicking an Autistic 6-Year-Old
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Montgomery County police say a report has been filed stating that a...
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...
Democrats Call Him an Out-of-State ‘Plant.’ His Campaign Says He Was Born in Baltimore County.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Maryland Democratic Party wants voters in northern Baltimore County to see Republican...
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...
The Real Swing County: Anne Arundel Heads Into a Wide-Open November
By MDBayNews Staff ANNAPOLIS, Md. — If Harford County's fall ballot is contested mostly on paper, Anne Arundel's is...
Every Seat in Play: Harford County Heads to November With a Full Ballot
By MDBayNews Staff BEL AIR, Md. — Harford County voters will find something unusual on their November ballot: a Democrat...
The Union Playbook: Hilton’s California Fix and Maryland’s Test
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Steve Hilton has a blunt diagnosis for why California kids can't read. On X this week, the...
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...
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...
The Council Eliminated a Broad $692 Homeowner Credit. Now It Wants Three Targeted Ones.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ROCKVILLE — Roughly four months after voting to zero out a property tax credit available...
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...
Suspended for Showing Up: The Dundalk Firefighters Punished for Helping After 9/11
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, an old Baltimore County story is making...
Germantown Service Dog Hit by Car, Now Recovering After Three Days in the ICU
By MDBayNews Staff GERMANTOWN, Md. — A Germantown woman is asking for help covering nearly $9,000 in veterinary bills...
Jawando Hospitalized After Heart Attack, Campaign Says He’s Recovering
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Will Jawando, the Democratic nominee for Montgomery County executive, suffered a heart...
Frederick ICE Clash: Neighborhood Calms as Warrant Claim Surfaces, No Arrests Confirmed
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Frederick, Md. — A routine-sounding vehicle stop turned into one of Frederick County's...
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...
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...
Diaz Points to a Tennessee Charter School’s Reading Turnaround. Here’s What the Study Actually Found.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Montgomery County, Md. — With about two months left before the Nov. 3 general election,...
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...
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...
District 17 Preview: Kagan Seeks a Fourth Term as a Familiar Face Returns on the Republican Line
Montgomery County's District 17 is not where Maryland Republicans expect to win in November, but it is where one of them is...
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...
At a Meeting About Public Safety, One County Executive Candidate Showed. The Other Didn’t.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Election Coverage Thursday night's community meeting in Gaithersburg was never going to...