Police Review Found No Threatening Behavior by Rhoda in Damascus Encounter
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A Montgomery County police officer who reviewed video of an October 24 encounter involving...
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DGA Action Sends Another $460,000 to Question 3 Campaign, Bringing Total to $1.26 Million
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A committee funded almost entirely by the Democratic Governors Association has now put...
Nonpartisan on the Ballot: Unions, a Party Committee and a Super PAC Weigh In on Montgomery’s At-Large School Board Race
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Early voting in Montgomery County runs through Thursday, Oct. 29, and one countywide...
FBI Posts Roy McGrath Shooting File With 36 Flash Drives Logged and 14 Pages Withheld
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The FBI has posted records from its investigation into the 2023 shooting death of Roy...
Wes Moore Isn’t Running Against Dan Cox. He’s Running for Something Bigger.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Dan Cox raised $126,292 over the last two months. Wes Moore raised $1.45 million, then...
Spencer Rhoda’s Recording of Damascus Exchange Contradicts Chao Wu’s Account. MDBayNews Listened.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A recording of Saturday’s encounter between Delegate Chao Wu and Republican candidate...
Maryland Week in Review: Prince George’s Grant Money Comes Back, Baltimore County Council Votes Itself a Big Raise and Early Voting Is Underway
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Public money and public accountability ran through Maryland's week. In Prince George's...
Rutledge Wants a Statewide Bureau of Investigation, and Points to Baltimore’s Inspector General Fight
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Jim Rutledge, the Republican nominee for Maryland attorney general, wants to create a...
Chao Wu Smeared Two Opponents With a Story He Can’t Prove. He Should Retract It Now.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Delegate Chao Wu told voters that a man running against him frightened his young son into...
OPINION: The Case for the Orange Ballot in Frederick County’s School Board Race
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews This is a commentary piece and reflects the view of its author. The Board of Education race...
An $800,000 Washington PAC Check Is Now the Biggest Gift Behind Question 3
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The committee urging Marylanders to vote yes on Question 3 reported $1,588,336 in net...
Betting-Industry Money Has Spent $435,000 Against a Moderate Republican With No Known Gambling Position. Why?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews American Future's biggest general-election target in Maryland is a Republican state Senate...
OPINION: Montgomery County Taxpayers Are Funding a Campaign They Cannot Opt Out Of
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Nobody asked Montgomery County taxpayers whether they wanted to pay for Will Jawando's...
Judge Calls Brown’s ICE Subpoena “Fatally Facially Defective” and Tosses His Lawsuit as Rutledge Hits Office’s Priorities
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE — A federal judge has thrown out Attorney General Anthony Brown's lawsuit...
County Taxpayers Have Sent Will Jawando $844,557. His Opponent Raised About $52,000.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Montgomery County taxpayers have put $844,556.95 into Will Jawando's campaign for county...
Audit Finds Repeat Failures at Attorney General’s Office, From a Stalled Software Deal to Unsupported Leave
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — State auditors say the Office of the Attorney General paid for a case...
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...
Soros-Funded PAC Disclosed $122 Million in a Maryland Filing. Now It Has Sent $500,000 to the Question 3 Campaign.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Democracy PAC, the super PAC funded by George Soros and organizations he created, disclosed...
Win for America Discloses $80.65 Million in Sportsbook Funding as a Recipient PAC Spends $3.67 Million on Maryland Races
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Win for America, the political group financed by the online sportsbook industry, registered...
Think Tank Backed by Soros Network Names Eight Maryland Counties for More Immigration
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A Washington think tank that has taken $1.65 million from George Soros's Open Society...
Rutledge Says Maryland’s Attorney General Should Back Police and Stop Suing Washington Over Policy
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Jim Rutledge, the Republican nominee for attorney general, says the office should spend...
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....
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...
Bouchat Calls Question 3 an “Arrogant” Attack on Citizen Sovereignty, and Says His Own Party Is Part of the Problem
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Del. Christopher Eric Bouchat, R-Carroll and Frederick, is not a delegate who stays quiet...
Maryland Has a Horse Industry Plan. It Still Doesn’t Have a Preakness Strategy.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore unveiled Maryland's first statewide Horse Industry Strategic Plan this...
Board Approves $50,000 for Moore’s Lawyers, Down From $550,000, as Rutledge Presses Brown on Priorities
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BEL AIR, Md. — Jim Rutledge, the Republican nominee for Maryland attorney general, used a...
Four in Five Maryland Likely Voters Expect Data Centers to Hurt Electricity Costs, UMBC Poll Finds
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Eighty percent of Maryland likely voters say new data centers will have a mostly negative...
UMBC Poll: Question 3 Trails 53% to 25%, and Democrats Lean Against It
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Only one in four Maryland likely voters says they plan to vote for Question 3. The UMBC...
Cox Pressed Moore on Taxes, the Key Bridge and a Full Term. Moore Pressed Back on Trump.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Opinion OWINGS MILLS, Md. Dan Cox came to Maryland Public Television on Tuesday with one...
UMBC Poll Backs Up Moore’s 27-Point Lead, but a Quarter of Voters Haven’t Picked a Major Candidate
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore leads Republican nominee Dan Cox 51% to 24% among likely voters, according...
Utility Bills, a $3 Billion Gap and Persistent Outmigration: What Is Driving Maryland’s Statewide Races
By Michael Phillips | Oct. 5, 2026 Marylanders will pick a governor, a comptroller and an attorney general on Nov. 3, and...
Beyond Affordability: The Local Fights Shaping County Races Across Maryland
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Ask Marylanders what worries them, and the answer is money. In a statewide poll released in...
Rutledge Backs Notice and a Hearing for Officers Before They Land on “Do Not Call” Lists
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BEL AIR, Md. — Jim Rutledge, the Republican nominee for Maryland attorney general, said...
Five Days Out: The Debate Plan Dan Cox Needs
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Opinion Dan Cox gets one night on equal footing with Gov. Wes Moore. It's Tuesday, Oct....
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...
Two Other Questions on Maryland’s Ballot: What Questions 1 and 2 Would Do
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Election 2026 | Analysis Maryland voters will decide three statewide constitutional...
Rutledge: Brown’s Office Turns Into Moore’s ‘Partisan Defense Fund’ in Sun Owner’s Lawsuit
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland's Attorney General's office will provide state-funded legal...
Montgomery County GOP Drops Support for District 7 Nominee Over Mossad, 9/11 and JFK Conspiracy Posts
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Harold Maldonado spent four pages this week telling Montgomery County voters he'd been...
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...
The Council Reinvents Itself: Baltimore County Faces Historic Turnover
By MDBayNews Staff TOWSON, Md. — Baltimore County voters approved a lot more than new district lines when they passed...