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...
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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...
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....
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...
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 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...
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...
Moore’s ICE Scare Tactic Was Already Out of Date When It Aired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,...
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...
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...
Orioles Pride Night Features Drag Performer in Family Section, Drawing Sharp Fan Backlash
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Baltimore Orioles are hosting their annual Pride Night at Camden Yards this Friday, and...
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...
A Sun Veteran’s Exit, and What It Says About Who’s Left
By MDBayNews Staff Jeff Barker did not leave quietly. He announced his resignation from The Baltimore Sun on Monday in a...
The Fight Was at the White House. You Needed a Subscription to Watch It.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews President Trump wanted the biggest audience possible. Dana White promised Super Bowl...
Stars, Stripes, and a Stunner: America’s 250th Ends With Gaethje Champion on the White House Lawn
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews It started with the sky and ended with the sky — and in between, on the South Lawn of the...
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...
Germantown Shopping Center Wall Bears Tags Linked to FBI-Flagged Violent Network
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Black spray-painted graffiti bearing tags associated with 764 — a violent online network...
Baltimore’s City Jail Is Still Holding People After Judges Order Them Free
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When a judge in Baltimore signs a release order, the law says the person in custody must go...
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...
Maryland Is Still Hiding Its Missing Foster Children — We’ve Been Asking for Seven Months
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On Wednesday morning, Maryland's Department of Human Services confirmed to Spotlight on...
Baltimore’s $75,000 Spin Doctor Went to War With a Restaurant Website
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Baltimore City’s rapid response press secretary went to war this week — with a...
Maryland’s Juvenile Crime Wave: What the Numbers Actually Show — and Who’s Responsible
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The incident at the Navy Yard Chipotle in Washington, D.C. — a mob of teenagers...
The Governor Who Takes Credit for Everything — Except What Went Wrong
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore is running for reelection on a record he has spent three years carefully...
Six Figures, Still Struggling: Maryland Ranks Third in Nation for Eroding Middle-Class Purchasing Power
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A household earning $100,000 a year in Maryland is now classified as lower-middle class...
A Child Is Dead. It Was the Third Fall From the Same Building in Less Than a Year.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A 2-year-old girl fell roughly ten stories from a high-rise apartment building on the 9300...
Calling It Racist Doesn’t Make It Wrong
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A political ad depicting Will Jawando reaching into a cookie jar labeled "Taxpayers'...
Swastika on Campaign Sign Triggers Homeland Security Review as Maryland Antisemitism Incidents Mount
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A campaign sign for Greg Holmes, a candidate for Prince George's County Executive, was...
Maryland’s Protective Order System Has Failed Before. It Will Again.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Robert MacMeekin drove his daughter to a Baltimore County courthouse on Saturday morning to...
Baltimore Got Safer. Maryland Didn’t.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On Saturday, Governor Wes Moore formally launched his 2026 reelection campaign at the...
THE INVISIBLE WORKFORCE
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Every May 1st, labor gets its moment. Unions march. Politicians invoke the dignity of work....
Congress Demands D.C. Crime Data Records — And Maryland Should Be Asking the Same Questions
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is demanding records from the...
Maryland Prisons Hit a Decade High in Homicides. The State Just Moved 700 More Inmates In.
Inmate killings surged 75 percent last year — the worst in ten years. The Moore administration's response was to close a...
Where Do You Host a Dinner That Someone Just Tried to Kill the President At?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Nobody who attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night expected to...
They Knew — And Didn’t: The Warning That Came Too Late, and the Sister Who Was Already in Maryland
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews WASHINGTON — Cole Tomas Allen sent his family a manifesto minutes before he charged a...
The Dinner Was Over When the Perimeter Broke: A Security Autopsy of the WHCD Shooting
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews WASHINGTON — At approximately 8:40 p.m. Saturday, a gunman was confronted by security...
Maryland’s Cyber Problem Is Bigger Than One Offline Database
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's official property records database has been offline for ten days following a...
Hangar Deal: Construction Firm with Airpark Lease Has Donated $11,000 to the Luedtkes While Expansion Bypassed Council Review
W.M. Rickman Construction holds a 'Through the Fence' agreement at KGAI. State campaign finance records show six straight...