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...
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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...
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...
Remembering Maryland’s Own: The 68 Marylanders Lost on 9/11
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 68 called...
The Maryland Wedding That Changed the Bush Family Forever
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews George W. Bush turns 80 years old today. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, raised in...
The State That Almost Said No
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | July 4, 2026 Tonight, Maryland celebrates 250 years of American independence. Fireworks...
Maryland’s Greatest Contributions We Left Off the List
A MDBayNews America 250 Independence Day Sidebar | July 4, 2026 Our main feature today runs seventeen sections covering...
Maryland Made America: The Old Line State’s 250-Year Gift to the Nation
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | An Independence Day Feature | July 4, 2026 There is a version of American history where...
Maryland’s 400: The Soldiers Who Saved America Before America Existed
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — It was August 27, 1776 — six weeks after the signing of the Declaration of...
The Primary That Changed Maryland
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When historians look back at the razor-thin 1994 Maryland gubernatorial election, most...
From Ballymena to Baltimore: How Irish Immigrant James McHenry Helped Shape America—and Maryland
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews As Maryland celebrates Irish-American Heritage Month, it is worth remembering that one of...
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...
Can Anyone Beat Wes Moore?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore enters the next election cycle with what political strategists would...
The Election That Nearly Flipped Maryland
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews In the long arc of Maryland politics, there are elections that confirm the status quo —...
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...
John Barry: The Irish Sailor Who Helped Forge the American Navy
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews For Irish-American Heritage Month, Maryland has every reason to look toward Annapolis —...
The Spy From Baltimore
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews In the long corridors of Maryland power — from Annapolis to Fort Meade, from the Port of...
Chick Webb: Baltimore’s King of Swing Who Beat the Odds
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Before the national media crowned others the “King of Swing,” Baltimore had already...
Harry Sythe Cummings: Baltimore’s First Black Councilman and a Pioneer of Civic Leadership
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews As Maryland reflects during Black History Month on leaders who shaped both our state and...
Black History Is American History — A Maryland Reflection
By Fitzgerald Mofor | Guest Commentary Black History Month presents a meaningful opportunity for Marylanders to reflect on...
Maryland’s Harriet Tubman: A Black History Story Beyond the Slogans
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland gave America one of its most consequential freedom fighters—Harriet Tubman—yet...
When Civil Rights Leaders Warned About Big Government
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Modern political debates often frame skepticism of government bureaucracy as a recent—or...
One Anthem, One Nation: Why the Unity Debate Is Back
By MDBayNews Staff The debate over national unity returned to the spotlight this week after conservative commentator and...
The Forgotten Black Middle Class—Then and Now
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Modern political debates often assume that Black economic progress began only after the...
“The Maryland Way”: A Deep-Rooted Culture of Corruption Hiding in Plain Sight
By Michael Phillips Maryland may boast of its crab feasts, blue-ribbon schools, and proximity to the nation’s...
35 Years of the ADA: A Civil Rights Law in Name, Not in Practice
By Michael Phillips Next week, America will mark 35 years since the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act...
Moral Bankruptcy on Display: Maryland Democrats Compare Trump to Hitler—and Cross a Dangerous Line
By Michael Phillips When public officials weaponize the Holocaust for political cheap shots, they don’t just smear their...
Paving Over the Past: Baltimore Bureaucrats Strike Again in Fells Point
By Michael Phillips When you’re a city drowning in potholes, crime, and broken promises, what do you do? If you're the...