Maryland Cousins Indicted in Multi-Million-Dollar Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Scheme (Updated)
By MDBayNews Staff Three Maryland cousins have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to a sprawling...
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Maryland’s Judicial Discipline System Shows Rare Transparency as Virginia Moves Backward
By Michel Phillips | MDBayNews As neighboring Virginia retreats into judicial secrecy, Maryland stands out in the...
Baltimore’s Ethics Crisis Deepens: Federal Indictment Alleges Election-Related Blackmail Plot by Sen. Dalya Attar
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Maryland State Sen. Dalya Attar ran a kickback scheme out of the...
A Department in Decay: How Prince George’s County Police Became a Case Study in Institutional Failure
Prince George’s County, Maryland, is often described as the crown jewel of majority-Black prosperity: nearly one million...
Friday Night Lights, Dark Family Secrets: How a Father Who Won Was Erased — And Who Profited
On an August night in Prince George’s County, Maryland, a high school football game at Bishop McNamara should have been a...
Virginia Education Association’s Shameful Response to Charlie Kirk’s Assassination
When the Virginia Education Association (VEA) finally addressed the assassination of Charlie Kirk, their message revealed...
The Opportunist: From Gun Board Failure to Family Court Predator
In politics, reputations are hard to shake. In family court, reputations are too easily ignored. Maryland attorney John H....
Maryland Punishes Parents Harder Than Criminals — And It’s a National Shame
In Maryland today, parents seeking to see their children face harsher repercussions than actual criminals. Violent...
James Walkinshaw’s Campaign of Entitlement: Why VA-11 Deserves Better
Virginia’s 11th Congressional District has long been considered safe Democratic territory. But the September 9 special...
Rockville’s “Wild Wild West”: Veterans Betrayed, Vouchers Misused, and Montgomery County’s Culture of Corruption
When a decorated former member of the Army JAG Corps, Lydia D. York, blows the whistle on corruption in her own backyard,...
The Crime Data Mirage: Why Baltimore and D.C.’s “Declining” Numbers Don’t Tell the Whole Story
For years, politicians in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore have been eager to tout falling crime numbers. Headlines trumpet...
Passport to Nowhere: How Child Support Enforcement Blocks Parents from Working
In an age where we’re told that work is the path to independence, one Virginia parent discovered that the very attempt to...
Two Years Without My Son: How Montgomery County Circuit Court Refuses to Enforce Custody Orders
It has now been nearly two years since I last saw my son. Not because I disappeared, not because I failed to show up, not...
Family Court as Legalized Child Trafficking: The Case of Reichert v. Hornbeck
America has spent decades wagging its finger at the rest of the world about “human trafficking,” while right here at...
Maryland’s Long Shadow of Corruption: How History Shapes Distrust in Family Courts
The idea that Maryland’s family courts may be tainted by bias, favoritism, or even outright corruption cannot be...
Maryland’s Family Courts: Rights on Paper, Injustice in Practice
Family court is supposed to protect children, safeguard parental rights, and ensure fair enforcement of custody and...
Chris Van Hollen: Maryland’s Senator of Sour Grapes
If Wes Moore is Maryland’s grinning selfie machine—forever smiling as he steers the state off a fiscal and cultural...
Anthony Brown’s Tenure as Maryland AG: A Case Study in Partisan Politics Over Public Accountability
Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has proven to be less of a watchdog for Maryland citizens and more of a partisan...
Brandon Scott’s Baltimore: Crime Stats, Spin, and the Reality on the Streets
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott loves to tout “historic reductions” in homicides and violent crime, but for many...
From RAND to Random: When a Biosecurity Researcher Punches Down Over AI Images
It’s one thing to spend your career at the RAND Corporation warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence in the...
Double Dipping Isn’t Just Maryland’s Problem – The National Pattern of Replacing Parents While Still Charging Support
By Michael Phillips When Maryland’s Anne Arundel County Family Court allowed John Michel to step into the role of “de...
Child Support & “Double Dipping” – The Absurd Economics of Erasing a Parent
By Michael Phillips In the warped theater of Anne Arundel County Family Court, the Reichert v. Hornbeck saga has reached a...
Maryland’s Parent-Erasure Pattern: Dangerous Crossroads in Custody Law
By Michael Phillips The recent Anne Arundel County ruling in Reichert v. Hornbeck—where Judge Elizabeth S. Morris granted...
Maryland’s New Family Law Loophole: Erasing Parents Without Evidence
By Michael Phillips In Reichert v. Hornbeck, the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County has set one of the most dangerous...
“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...
Maryland’s Family Courts Are Failing Families: Here’s Why Reform Can’t Wait
By Michael Phillips In theory, Maryland’s family courts are supposed to be the guardians of justice for families in...
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...