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Maryland Week in Review: Baltimore Reviews a Controversial Letter, Blueprint Board Seeks a Longer Pause and Early Voting Opens Thursday

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Baltimore's mayor spent the week answering for a letter, and the answer raised more...

Michael Phillips
October 19, 2026

Maryland Week in Review: A Sparrows Point Shipyard, One Debate and Questions After a 12-Year-Old’s Killing

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews President Donald Trump came to Baltimore County last week, and Gov. Wes Moore stayed away....

Michael Phillips
October 12, 2026

One Rockville-Based Filer Accounts for More Than Half of Maryland’s H-1B Approvals

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Trump administration on Thursday suspended eight employers, including Tata Consultancy...

Michael Phillips
October 12, 2026

Maryland Week in Review: A Federal Suit Over Masks, 370-Plus New Laws and a Sphere Deal Stuck on Labor

MDBayNews Staff Many of Maryland's new laws take effect on Oct. 1. This year, one of them was in federal court before the...

Staff Writer
October 5, 2026

Two Years, Thirty Percent: What Maryland’s Second Straight Premium Hike Actually Shows

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Marylanders who buy their own health insurance are about to get a second consecutive gut...

Michael Phillips
September 29, 2026

Maryland Week in Review: A $3 Billion Budget Gap, Another Premium Hike and a Question 3 Poll War

By MDBayNews Staff Last week in Maryland was mostly about money, and the news was not all good. State revenue came in...

Staff Writer
September 28, 2026

Washington County Said Yes to an ICE Facility. A Federal Judge Keeps Saying No.

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews WASHINGTON COUNTY — The Department of Homeland Security paid $102.4 million in cash on...

Michael Phillips
September 26, 2026

Baltimore’s Top Internal Affairs Officer Is Now the One Under Investigation

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE — For nearly seven years, Brian Nadeau occupied one of the most consequential...

Michael Phillips
September 26, 2026

Maryland’s Housing Chief Acknowledges What Builders Have Said for Years

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — Maryland's top housing official told state lawmakers this month that nearly...

Michael Phillips
September 25, 2026

Rutledge Uses Sparrows Point Crash to Press Brown on Juvenile Crime, as a New Youth Charging Law Nears Its Oct. 1 Start

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. — Republican attorney general nominee Jim Rutledge is using a...

Michael Phillips
September 23, 2026

Moore Rolls Out New “AI Principles” as Marylanders Wait on Tax Answers

Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore's office posted a new policy document this week called "AI Principles," a...

Michael Phillips
September 22, 2026

Millions in Fraud, Dozens of Defendants: Maryland’s Reckoning Under the Federal Crackdown

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that a Towson pharmacy company will pay more than...

Michael Phillips
September 17, 2026

Baltimore’s New Public Safety Agency Arrives Amid Fraud Fallout, a Records Fight and a Council Shake-Up

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Mayor Brandon Scott and City Council President Zeke Cohen announced legislation Monday to...

Michael Phillips
September 14, 2026

Suspended for Showing Up: The Dundalk Firefighters Punished for Helping After 9/11

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, an old Baltimore County story is making...

Michael Phillips
September 12, 2026

The CDC Paid Baltimore Teens to Sell Vaccines to Their Peers. It Wasn’t Just Baltimore, and Its Own Researchers Couldn’t Show It Worked.

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Baltimore, MD — For nearly a year, a small group of Baltimore teenagers was paid to...

Michael Phillips
September 11, 2026

Germantown Service Dog Hit by Car, Now Recovering After Three Days in the ICU

By MDBayNews Staff GERMANTOWN, Md. — A Germantown woman is asking for help covering nearly $9,000 in veterinary bills...

Staff Writer
September 11, 2026

Maryland Crews Answered the Call: The First Responders Who Deployed After 9/11

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When the World Trade Center towers fell, and a hijacked jet slammed into the Pentagon on...

Michael Phillips
September 10, 2026

From Tragedy to Statute: How 9/11 Reshaped Maryland’s Security Apparatus

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, much of Maryland's modern homeland-security...

Michael Phillips
September 8, 2026

Remembering Maryland’s Own: The 68 Marylanders Lost on 9/11

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, 68 called...

Michael Phillips
September 8, 2026

Frederick ICE Clash: Neighborhood Calms as Warrant Claim Surfaces, No Arrests Confirmed

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Frederick, Md. — A routine-sounding vehicle stop turned into one of Frederick County's...

Michael Phillips
September 7, 2026

The Rideshare Language Fight Has a Federal Bill Behind It. In Maryland, the Machines That Could Sidestep the Whole Argument Are Stuck in Committee.

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Complaints about rideshare drivers who can't communicate in English aren't just a social...

Michael Phillips
September 6, 2026

ICE Detainer and a Delegate Feud Add a New Chapter to the I-270 Crash Story

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews This is a follow-up to MDBayNews's Aug. 30 report, "Montgomery County Disbanded Its DUI...

Michael Phillips
September 6, 2026

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

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