The $9 Million Everyone’s Talking About: What Maryland’s Dream Act Actually Costs — and Doesn’t
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Since the Justice Department filed suit against Maryland on July 17 over its Dream Act, one...
Investigations
Live-Wire Testing Begins on the Purple Line. MTA’s Own Filing Says Nothing Changed — While Disclosing That It Did.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Crews began live-wire testing on the Purple Line this week, running light-rail vehicles...
The Count Behind the Count: Maryland’s Homelessness Numbers Are Getting Worse, Not Better
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On a single night in January 2025, 7,120 Marylanders had no home. That's 1,051 more people...
Montgomery County Bought Half a Ferry. It Won’t Say What Happens If the Other Half Never Comes.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Montgomery County officials stood in Poolesville on Friday to announce what they're calling...
What Maryland Actually Gets — and Gives Up — By Saying No to Data Centers
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews National coverage of the data center backlash tends to run one of two ways: either data...
Seven Stops, Five States, Three Weeks: Where Wes Moore Has Been While Maryland Waits on Affordability
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — On the same day House and Senate Republicans stood in Annapolis calling a...
The Memo That Locked Everyone Else Out Just Let Bouchat In
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews — Part of The Bouchat Paradox series Christopher Eric Bouchat has spent three sessions...
Wes Moore Told Randi Weingarten He Was “Humbled” to Follow Her. His Own Biography Argues Against Her.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore closed out the American Federation of Teachers' national convention in...
The Data Center Fight Isn’t Just Frederick’s Anymore — Here’s Where Maryland’s Counties Stand
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Frederick County's data center fight — a 2,600-acre zoning overlay, a referendum drive...
A Council Answering to 5 Percent Just Ended a 34-Year Relationship With Israel
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Montgomery County has quietly ended its funding relationship with the Maryland Israel...
Maryland’s Corrections System Is Collapsing — And It Didn’t Happen by Accident
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews You don't need to repeal a law to kill it. You just need to make sure no one can enforce...
What Governor Moore’s $13.3 Billion Announcement Left Out
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore announced this week that the results of PJM's latest capacity auction "saved...
A Government Chosen By 5 Percent Is Taxing The Other 95
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Montgomery County's property tax bills have been landing in mailboxes for two weeks, and...
A County of a Million, Decided by 52,738 Votes
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Montgomery County — home to more than one million residents, the largest county budget in...
Maryland’s Roads Rank Among the Worst in the Country. Here’s What the Data Says Is Actually Wrong With Them.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland doesn't have the single worst roads in America. But three separate national...
Maryland’s Road Money Is Locked Up By Law — And Nobody’s Fixing It
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews State budget data shows 75.1 percent of Maryland commuters drive alone or carpool. Only 5...
Maryland’s Hidden Bill: A Supreme Court Ruling Just Told Annapolis to Find the Money It Never Set Aside
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's Supreme Court handed the state a win on June 23 — and used the occasion to...
Paying Twice: The Federal Deal Costing Maryland Ratepayers Hundreds Of Millions For Two Anne Arundel Power Plants
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Every Baltimore Gas and Electric customer — 1.2 million households and businesses across...
Maryland’s Gaming Regulators Let the Casino Lobby Write Their Homework. Would We Say the Same If It Were Oil and Gas?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Here's a test worth running on any story about industry influence in government: swap the...
Maryland’s Economy Isn’t Growing. The Numbers Say Something Sharper.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland officials have spent much of the past year touting job growth numbers as evidence...
DOJ Sues Maryland Over Community Trust Act — Second Federal Challenge in Six Weeks
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The U.S. Department of Justice sued Maryland and Attorney General Anthony Brown on July 9,...
Moore’s ICE Scare Tactic Was Already Out of Date When It Aired
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On a soundstage in California, taped weeks before it ever reached a Maryland screen,...
Maryland’s Highest Court Kills the Frederick Data Center Referendum — 21,029 Signatures, Zero Votes
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Supreme Court of Maryland on Tuesday ended the largest citizen petition drive in...
Governor Moore’s Disability Pride Month Message Runs Into His Own Budget Record
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore's official account marked the start of Disability Pride Month with a...
Wes Moore Picks a Fight on the Nation’s 250th Birthday. Maryland Gets the Bill.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland Governor Wes Moore will stand at the State House in Annapolis on Saturday and...
Moore’s Own Supervisor Says Governor Did Not Receive Bronze Star — and Was Not in Afghanistan When Fellow Soldier Died
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The officer who supervised Wes Moore during his Afghanistan deployment says the governor...
Convicted of Housing Fraud. Now She Runs Prince George’s Land Records Office.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Clerk of the Circuit Court for Prince George's County is the county's official...
Montgomery County Schools Faces Supreme Court Petition After Barring Teacher for Refusing to Keep Parents in the Dark
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The cert petition landed at the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. Kimberly Ann Polk, a...
What Wes Moore Didn’t Say After Winning Maryland’s Primary
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Wes Moore won his primary Tuesday night. By Wednesday morning, he was everywhere —...
Building Bridges to Liberia While Baltimore Waits for Its Own
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On June 24, 2026 — the morning after Maryland's Democratic primary returned him a...
The Governor’s Market
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When Maryland's Appellate Court issued its ruling on September 9, 2025, the caption told...
The Governor Bought a Horse Race
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On Thursday, with five days remaining before a primary election, Governor Wes Moore's...
Moore Responds to Military Record Scrutiny — Without Addressing It
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore published a personal essay Monday on Substack titled "The Only Thing...
Moore’s Office Disputes Dialog Ties. The Record Doesn’t.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When a data leak exposed the internal membership records of Dialog — a secretive,...
Audits Flag $1.2 Billion in Questionable Maryland Spending. Moore Says the Number Is Wrong.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland state agencies have collectively accumulated more than $1.2 billion in...
One Witness: The Only Person Backing Wes Moore’s Combat Story Is the Man Who Put Him There
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews After nearly a year of investigation into Gov. Wes Moore's military biography, the question...
Federal Dollars Restart Warrior Run — But Will Maryland Ratepayers Actually Benefit?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews President Trump announced Thursday that $85 million in federal funds will restart the...
Purple Line Delay Grows to 78 Days as MTA Milestone Chart Stays Frozen
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's perpetually delayed Purple Line is slipping further behind schedule, according...
Maryland’s Other June Awareness Month
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews June is PTSD Awareness Month. It arrives in Maryland alongside Men's Health Month and Men's...
Maryland’s Men’s Health Month Problem
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews In February 2025, Governor Wes Moore stood before the General Assembly and made an...