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Maryland Crews Answered the Call: The First Responders Who Deployed After 9/11

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When the World Trade Center towers fell, and a hijacked jet slammed into the Pentagon on...

Michael Phillips
September 10, 2026

Three Bills to Require 9/11 Education in Maryland Schools Have Died. None Has Been Reintroduced.

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews As the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, Maryland has no law on the...

Michael Phillips
September 10, 2026

Eight Days, Ten Announcements: What Moore’s Late-Summer Sprint Actually Delivers

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — Between Sept. 1 and Sept. 8, Gov. Wes Moore's office issued 10 press...

Michael Phillips
September 9, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
September 8, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
September 7, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
September 7, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
September 7, 2026

ICE Detainer and a Delegate Feud Add a New Chapter to the I-270 Crash Story

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews This is a follow-up to MDBayNews's Aug. 30 report, "Montgomery County Disbanded Its DUI...

Michael Phillips
September 6, 2026

The Union That Always Picked Brown Just Picked His Opponent

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews For as long as Anthony Brown has run statewide, Maryland's police union has been in his...

Michael Phillips
September 5, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
September 3, 2026

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,...

Michael Phillips
September 3, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
September 3, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
September 3, 2026

Maryland’s ERs Are Still the Slowest in the Country. Half Its Hospitals Have Quietly Gotten Faster Anyway.

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland patients have waited longer in hospital emergency rooms than...

Michael Phillips
September 2, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
August 30, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
August 30, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
August 30, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
August 29, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
August 29, 2026

Maryland Ranks 7th Nationally for Lifetime Tax Burden, New Study Finds

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A Marylander who works 45 years and lives to the average life expectancy will hand over...

Michael Phillips
August 28, 2026

Wells’ Pitch to Friedson’s Voters, and the Numbers Behind It

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Election Coverage Esther Wells wants Andrew Friedson's voters, and she's making her case...

Michael Phillips
August 28, 2026

Riley Presses Raskin Over His Support for Michigan Senate Candidate El-Sayed

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Republican congressional candidate Cheryl Riley spent part of this week pressing Rep. Jamie...

Michael Phillips
August 27, 2026

Moore and Miller Want ICE Coordination After Maryland Restricted Local Immigration Enforcement

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller are criticizing recent federal...

Michael Phillips
August 26, 2026

A Federal Court Just Admitted the Piedmont “Emergency” Might Be Fake. It Let PSEG Bulldoze Your Land Anyway.

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Part of The New Land Wars series Charlotte Hetterick runs an organic farm in Carroll...

Michael Phillips
August 24, 2026

The Maryland Nonprofit Behind the Lawsuit That Just Knocked Out Trump’s 75-Country Visa Suspension

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A federal judge has struck down one of the Trump administration’s broadest immigration...

Michael Phillips
August 22, 2026

Still Closed: Largo’s $10 Million Plaza, Two and a Half Months Later

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Wayne K. Curry Civic Plaza in Largo has been finished for eight months. It has been...

Michael Phillips
August 21, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
August 21, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
August 20, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
August 19, 2026

Maryland Officials React to Court Ruling Restoring FBI Headquarters to Greenbelt

Maryland leaders began responding Monday to the federal court decision striking down the Trump administration's attempt to...

Michael Phillips
August 18, 2026

Trump’s FBI Headquarters Switch Is Dead — For Now. Greenbelt Is Back in Play.

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A federal judge sitting in Greenbelt ruled Monday that the Trump administration had no...

Michael Phillips
August 17, 2026

Moore Says Families Shouldn’t Go Into Debt for Back-to-School. His Own Tax Holiday Doesn’t Cover the Supply List.

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore used his personal X account Monday to tell Maryland families that...

Michael Phillips
August 17, 2026

At MACo, Cox Presses the Case Against Moore’s Record on Taxes, Energy, and the Key Bridge

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews OCEAN CITY — Dan Cox stood before Maryland's county officials Saturday and made a simple...

Michael Phillips
August 16, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
August 15, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
August 14, 2026

The Poll Saying Moore Is Up 27 Points Was Built by His Own Party’s Pollster and Sold by a Podcast His Party’s Media Sponsors

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — A poll released this week says Gov. Wes Moore leads Republican challenger Dan...

Michael Phillips
August 13, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
August 12, 2026

Where Maryland’s School Money Actually Goes — And Why It Still Isn’t Pencils

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A viral post out of Virginia in early August put a face on a problem Maryland teachers know...

Michael Phillips
August 10, 2026

What Maryland Didn’t Consider

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Maryland On the Map The Wednesday press conference produced three things Maryland needed:...

Michael Phillips
August 10, 2026

OPINION: A Grieving County Deserves More Than Condolences From a Candidate Who Wants to Run It

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews William Vance Payne II never made it to work Tuesday. The 58-year-old mechanical engineer,...

Michael Phillips
August 8, 2026

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