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Prince Georges County

Two Maryland Murders, One Broken Policy: What Dacara Thompson and Rachel Morin Tell Us About “Sanctuary” Maryland

Maryland just lived through another horror. Nineteen-year-old Da’Cara Thompson vanished on August 22; her body was found...

Michael Phillips
September 5, 2025

Maryland’s Traffic Paralysis: Why Won’t the State Build More Bridges Across the Potomac?

Traffic between Maryland and Virginia has become a daily nightmare. Commuters crawl across the American Legion Bridge, sit...

Michael Phillips
September 2, 2025

Friday Night Lights—or Friday Night Fights?

By Michael Phillips I hadn’t been to a high school football game in years. But on Friday night, I found myself in...

Michael Phillips
August 30, 2025

Maryland Schools Open the Year With Mold: Another Failure of Wes Moore’s Priorities

As Maryland students filed back into classrooms for the 2025–26 school year, many parents weren’t worried about test...

Michael Phillips
August 26, 2025

Top 15 Places to Live in Maryland (According to People Who Actually Live Here)

Maryland: home of crabs, corruption, and “character-rich” communities. If you’ve grown tired of safe suburbs,...

Michael Phillips
August 18, 2025

Stronger Than Steel, Rooted in America: How Superwood Is Redefining the Future of Building—Without the Climate Alarmism

By Michael Phillips In a time when green tech is too often a euphemism for government waste and elitist virtue signaling, a...

Michael Phillips
July 21, 2025

Scrappy Comes Home: What a Stolen Service Dog Reveals About Crime, Community, and Common Sense

By Michael Phillips On July 7, 2025, a quiet residential street in Temple Hills, Maryland, became the center of a...

Michael Phillips
July 20, 2025

Restoring Order or Overreaching? Laurel’s Summer Youth Curfew Draws a Line

By Michael Phillips In a move both praised and condemned, the City of Laurel, Maryland, has taken a bold stand against...

Michael Phillips
July 16, 2025

Opinion: Trump’s FBI Relocation Plan Is a Return to Sanity—Maryland Just Doesn’t Like Losing

By Michael Phillips The battle over the FBI’s future home has become a political circus—one that says more about power,...

Michael Phillips
July 14, 2025

Purple Line or Purple Disaster? How Maryland’s $9 Billion Transit Boondoggle Became the Punchline of State Planning

It’s not every day in Maryland politics that a government fiasco grows so large and embarrassing that even the governor...

Michael Phillips
May 31, 2025

Langley Park Bear Tranquilized After Mistaking Tree for Rent-Controlled Housing

LANGLEY PARK, MD — A black bear wandered into the wrong neighborhood this week—and like most visitors without a...

Michael Phillips
May 29, 2025

MARYLAND ON THE BRINK?

Business Departures, Missed Opportunities, and an Electric Fight That Could Leave the State Powerless ANNAPOLIS, MD —...

Michael Phillips
May 1, 2025

Maryland Sends Millions in Taxpayer Funds to a Publicly Traded Quantum Company—That’s Expanding in Tennessee

By Greg Visscher & Michael Phillips In a twist that raises serious questions about Maryland’s budget priorities, a...

Michael Phillips
May 1, 2025

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