Maryland’s Officials Keep Jet-Setting Abroad. Where Are the Results?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland taxpayers have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars bankrolling international...
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The Signing Ceremony State
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — There is a version of Maryland governance that lives in press releases and...
Three Seats, Limited Competition: The Hidden Math Behind Maryland’s Delegate Primaries
By MDBayNews Staff At first glance, Maryland’s 2026 candidate filings suggest healthy participation in House of Delegates...
Maryland HB 942: Criminalizing Custody Interference Is Necessary — But Without Structural Enforcement Reform, It Will Not Fix Maryland’s Family Court Crisis
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews For years, separated parents in Maryland have lived with a painful contradiction: custody...
Wootton High School Shooting Raises Hard Questions About School Safety—and Calls to Remove Police
By MDBayNews Staff A shooting inside Thomas S. Wootton High School on Tuesday afternoon left one student wounded and sent...
Green Party Candidate Andy Ellis Slams Dan Cox, GOP as Maryland’s “Non-Opposition”
By MDBayNews Staff The 2026 Maryland governor’s race is already exposing deep fractures—not just between Democrats and...
Maryland Freedom Caucus Launches Multi-State Push on Energy Costs and Grid Reliability
By MDBayNews Staff Annapolis, Md. — Republican lawmakers from across the Mid-Atlantic gathered in Annapolis on Friday for...
Frederick Officials Condemn Federal Enforcement — But Offer Few Answers on Local Responsibility
By MDBayNews The City of Frederick this week issued a joint statement from Michael O’Connor and the City Council...
Maryland Weighs Statewide Oversight as Data Center Boom Tests Grid, Communities
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews As demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing surges, Maryland is confronting a...
Anthony Brown’s Activist Attorney Generalship: Maryland’s Top Lawyer or a Full-Time Political Combatant?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When Marylanders elected Anthony Brown as attorney general in 2022, they didn’t just hire...
Idaho Just Drew the Blueprint to Fix Maryland’s Broken Custody Courts. Will Annapolis Follow?
By Michael Phillips — Father & Co. | MDBayNews BOISE, Idaho — After five public hearings, hundreds of pages of...
Maryland’s Gas Tax Reality Check: High Costs, Low Transparency
For months, Maryland drivers have grumbled about high prices at the pump — and viral posts claiming “$1.99 per gallon...
Frederick County’s Latest Horror Show: A School Board Meeting Gone Wild
Ah, Frederick County, Maryland—where school board meetings now resemble open-mic night at a downtown comedy club. The...
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...
NYC: Don’t Be the Next Maryland 🛑
New York City faces a stark choice. Implementing aggressive tax-and-spend reforms like those proposed by Zohran Mamdani...
The Brennan Files: Maryland’s Most Dangerous Lawyer?
By Michael Phillips | The Thunder Report If you're unfamiliar with Brennan McCarthy, that’s about to change. Brennan...
How Many Ways Can Governor Wes Moore Gaslight Maryland?
By Michael Phillips If there's one thing Governor Wes Moore has perfected, it's the art of promising everything and...
Maryland’s Gun Violence Dashboard: A Step Toward Transparency, or a Political Tool in the Making?
By Michael Phillips On June 26, 2025, the Maryland Department of Health unveiled its new Gun Violence Data Dashboard, a...
OPINION: Where Is Maryland’s Republican Leadership?
By Michael Phillips As Maryland faces another wave of economic challenges and political overreach under Governor Wes Moore,...
Stretching Toward Annapolis: Andy Ellis and the 10 Best Places to Downward Dog Your Way Into the Governor’s Mansion
Maryland may be politically twisted, but no one stretches quite like Andy Ellis—Green Party candidate, backyard chicken...
Purple Line or Purple Disaster? How Maryland’s $9 Billion Transit Boondoggle Became the Punchline of State Planning
It’s not every day in Maryland politics that a government fiasco grows so large and embarrassing that even the governor...
Maryland Matters—Nonpartisan Like a Bernie Bro at a Gun Show
Oh, Maryland Matters. The name just oozes neutrality, doesn’t it? Like something cooked up in a civic-minded think tank...
Marylanders Could Face Blackouts This Summer — Thank the Green Agenda and Grid Mismanagement
Marylanders might want to invest in candles and battery packs this summer. PJM Interconnection—the regional power grid...
Frederick Protest Turns Violent: Arrested Group Dressed in Antifa-Style Gear, Assaulted Police Officers
FREDERICK, MD — What began Thursday evening as a series of peaceful gatherings throughout the City of Frederick took a...