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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

While Marylanders Pay Near-Record Prices at the Pump, Refiners Are Posting Their Best Quarter Since 2022

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews FREDERICK, MD — President Trump summoned about a dozen oil refining executives to the...

Michael Phillips
September 2, 2026

Where Maryland Remembers: 9/11 Memorials and 25th Anniversary Events Across the State

This September marks 25 years since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and communities across Maryland are holding...

Michael Phillips
September 2, 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

A Decade of Red Line Promises, and Baltimore Is Still Waiting on the Bus

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Jonathan Sacks runs a community development corporation in Edmondson, the West Baltimore...

Michael Phillips
September 1, 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

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

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

What the Supreme Court Actually Ruled on Mail Voting

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's top Democrats wasted no time reacting to Monday's Supreme Court order on...

Michael Phillips
August 25, 2026

Baltimore Ranks Second-Worst Real Estate Market in the Country, New Study Finds

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE, Md. — Baltimore's housing market landed near the bottom of a new national...

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

Maryland Has 240 Bridges Rated “Structurally Deficient.” None of Them Was the Key Bridge.

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Two and a half years after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River,...

Michael Phillips
August 20, 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

So, a Rabid Maryland Beaver Is Coming at You. Now What?

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland has had several recent beaver attacks, including rabies-positive animals. Here’s...

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

EPA Said Yes to New Hampshire. Maryland’s Version of the Same Bill Died in Committee.

by Michael Phillips | MDBayNews New Hampshire drivers haven't had their cars sniffed for pollution since January. On Aug....

Michael Phillips
August 11, 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

Maryland’s Van Hollen Bet Big on a Michigan Candidate Who Wants Him Running the Senate Democrats — Raskin Cheered From the House

Van Hollen was the first sitting senator to back Abdul El-Sayed after Bernie Sanders. Raskin called his win proof of...

Michael Phillips
August 6, 2026

Power Over People: How Annapolis Rewrote the Rules — and What It Ignored to Do It

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Maryland General Assembly closed its three-day special session Tuesday night having...

Michael Phillips
August 5, 2026

D.C. and Baltimore Rank Among America’s Riskiest Cities for Drivers — But State Data Tells a More Complicated Story

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Washington, D.C. and Baltimore landed at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, on Allstate's 2026...

Michael Phillips
August 4, 2026

Blindsided, Again

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Editor's Note: MDBayNews published this morning, at approximately 11:30 am, the first...

Michael Phillips
August 3, 2026

Moore’s Two-Front Test: What the NGA Gavel Means for His Ambitions — and His Reelection

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore picked up a new title over the weekend, and it isn't on the Maryland ballot....

Michael Phillips
August 3, 2026

Van Hollen Isn’t Even on the Ballot. He’s Still Doing the Socialists’ Work for Them.

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Chris Van Hollen has no primary to survive and no general election to win in 2026. He...

Michael Phillips
August 2, 2026

Synagogue Sues Montgomery County Over Firearms Ban, Says Ordinance Started as “Housekeeping”

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Silver Spring Jewish Center and its rabbi, Menashe Shapiro, filed a federal lawsuit...

Michael Phillips
August 2, 2026

Anne Arundel Schools Face Federal Investigation Over Policy That Let Staff Withhold a Student’s Gender Transition From Her Parents

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Anne Arundel County Public Schools is now the subject of a federal investigation that could...

Michael Phillips
July 27, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
July 25, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
July 25, 2026

Gun Rights Coalition Asks Maryland’s Top Court to Hear Reciprocity Case — But the Argument They’re Pushing Was Never Actually Ruled On

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A coalition of Second Amendment groups is urging the Supreme Court of Maryland to take up...

Michael Phillips
July 24, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
July 23, 2026

Maryland Named Twice by DHS — State Signals It Won’t Comply, as Federal Funding and Legal Threats Escalate

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland is one of 18 states named in a declassified federal intelligence review alleging...

Michael Phillips
July 19, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
July 17, 2026

The Bipartisan Rider Nobody’s Enforcing: USDA Presses Ahead On Beltsville Closure While Congress Says Stop

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's largest federal research complex is closing, and Congress told the U.S....

Michael Phillips
July 16, 2026

Every Drive Is Now a Record. Maryland Hasn’t Reckoned With What That Means.

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Lee Schmidt and Crystal Arrington aren't criminals. Neither has ever been named a suspect...

Michael Phillips
July 15, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
July 14, 2026

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...

Michael Phillips
July 14, 2026

Maryland Built a Legal Wall Against ICE Surveillance Data. Is Anyone Checking If It Holds?

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Nobody in Maryland has smashed a Flock Safety camera. Nobody has cut one down with vice...

Michael Phillips
July 11, 2026

Bates Says Maryland’s Juvenile System Is “Broken.” The Cases He’s Pointing To Show Why He’s Not Alone.

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Baltimore City State's Attorney Ivan Bates posted a statement on X Thursday declaring that...

Michael Phillips
July 10, 2026

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,...

Michael Phillips
July 7, 2026

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