Maryland Gave Counties Permission to Review Suicide Deaths. It Didn’t Require Anyone to Prevent Them.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Maryland General Assembly's 2026 session produced one piece of suicide prevention...
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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...
Maryland’s Mental Health Workforce Is Half Empty — And Getting Worse
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland has roughly half the behavioral health workers it needs right now. Nine counties...
Maryland’s Disability Rate Is Rising — And the Increase Is Statewide
Most counties saw higher percentages of residents with a disability in 2024 than in 2023, according to new federal data....
Maryland’s psychiatric hospitals are running out of room — and the data shows why
Two years of internal state reports reveal falling admissions, collapsing releases, and a system increasingly unable to...
Reality Check: What Are #NoKings Rallies Actually Doing?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews There’s something strange about the rise of “#NoKings” rallies. The United States...
Maryland Counties Revolt Against Moore’s Disability Cuts as $150M Reduction Sparks Statewide Backlash
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A rare bipartisan backlash is building across Maryland as counties push back against...
Maryland’s Behavioral Health Push: Compassion, Cost, and the Coming Budget Fight
By MDBayNews Staff As Maryland heads deeper into the 2026 General Assembly session, state legislators and mental health...
Montgomery County Overdose Deaths Rise Again — Fentanyl Drives a Policy Failure
By MDBayNews Staff Drug overdose deaths in Montgomery County rose by nearly 7 percent from 2024 to 2025, according to new...
Justice Cannot Be Blind to Invisible Disabilities
By Michael PhillipsOriginally published in The Daily Record, October 24, 2025 When Congress passed the Americans with...
Marylanders Say “No Deal” to Online Casinos — And They’re Right To
A new statewide poll released this week sent a clear message to Annapolis: Marylanders don’t want to turn every...
Maryland Family Courts vs. Invisible Disabilities: Rights Denied, Families Punished
In Maryland, family court is supposed to protect children and preserve parental rights. Instead, it’s become the one...
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...
Who Is Sarah Hornbeck? The Woman at the Center of One of Maryland’s Most Disturbing Custody Cases
Sarah Hornbeck is not merely a litigant in a prolonged family court case—she is the subject of a years-long legal and...
The Pain That Never Ends: The Invisible Grief of Alienated Parents
It is a unique kind of grief—one that never fades, never heals, and never finds peace. It is the grief of a parent who...
Eric’s ID Law: Maryland’s New Driver’s License Option for Nonapparent Disabilities Marks a Major Step Toward Safety and Inclusion
If Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signs HB0707—Eric’s ID Law—a quiet revolution will begin October 1, 2025. Under this new...