Baltimore DPW Lawsuit Raises Familiar Questions About Accountability, Not Just Allegations
By MDBayNews Staff A former senior official at the Baltimore Department of Public Works has filed a federal lawsuit against...
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Maryland Leaders Blame the Ads While Ratepayers Pay the Price
By MDBayNews Staff As Maryland families struggle with rising utility bills, a new debate has erupted in Annapolis—not...
Why the Betsy Ross Case Is Back in the Spotlight: Dan Cox’s 2026 Gubernatorial Run
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The renewed attention on the Betsy Ross civil rights case isn’t happening in a vacuum. It...
Former Maryland Child Support Employee Pleads Guilty to Timesheet Fraud, Ordered to Pay $42,000
By MDBayNews Staff A former employee of Maryland’s child support enforcement system has pleaded guilty to falsifying time...
Can Baltimore Kick the Heroin Habit With $580 Million? Or Is This Another Expensive Detour?
By MDBayNews Staff Baltimore is once again betting big on government intervention. According to a recent Baltimore Sun...
Frozen in Time: Baltimore’s Aging Infrastructure Buckles Under Historic Cold
As a historic cold spell grips Maryland, Baltimore is once again confronting an all-too-familiar problem: an aging,...
When the System Goes Dark: Baltimore’s CAD Failures Expose a Deeper Crisis of Governance
By MDBayNews Staff Baltimore residents were told to trust the system. Once again, that trust has been tested—and found...
Maryland’s Campaign Finance System: Transparency on Paper, Loopholes in Practice
By MDBayNews Staff Maryland’s campaign finance laws are often described as some of the more structured and...
Moore’s Ethical Line—Drawn Late—Reignites Maryland’s Pay-to-Play Debate
By MDBayNews Editorial Desk A Baltimore Sun exclusive this morning lit up Annapolis—and not because it revealed a crime....
Moore Dodges Questions as SNAP Fraud Allegations Raise Accountability Concerns
By MDBayNews Staff Governor Wes Moore is facing renewed scrutiny after declining to directly answer questions surrounding...
Montgomery County’s Anti-Trafficking Push: Serious Issue, Familiar Politics
By MDBayNews Staff Montgomery County officials are once again spotlighting their commitment to combating human trafficking,...
Federal Overreach or Needed Accountability? The Debate Over D.C.’s Public Golf Courses
By MDBayNews Staff | District Desk The Trump administration’s recent move to terminate the long-term lease for three of...
Treasury Cancels Booz Allen Contracts, Raising Alarm for Maryland’s Federal Workforce
By MDBayNews Staff The U.S. Treasury Department’s decision to cancel all federal contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton is...
Baltimore Health Department Data Breach Exposes Deeper Government IT Failures
By MDBayNews Staff A recent data breach at the Baltimore City Health Department has once again exposed a recurring problem...
Attorney General Brown Claims to Protect Federal Funding—But at What Long-Term Cost to Maryland?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown is touting a series of legal actions that his...
Maryland Comptroller Warns Lawmakers: Major Income Tax Changes Risk System Failure in 2026
By MDBayNews Staff Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman delivered an unusually blunt message to lawmakers this week: the...
Opinion: Maryland’s Utility Shock Isn’t a Market Failure — It’s a Regulatory One
By MDBayNews Staff Marylanders are being told—again—that their soaring BGE bills are the unavoidable result of markets,...
DEI Training Sparks Debate Inside Montgomery County Fire and Rescue
By MDBayNews Staff A new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training initiative inside the Montgomery County Fire and...
Hundreds of Millions Lost — and Still No Watchdog: Maryland’s Oversight Blind Spot
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews As the 2026 legislative session gets underway in Annapolis, Maryland lawmakers face an...
Burnett Pushes for Full Ban on Congressional Stock Ownership as GOP Reform Bill Advances
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews GAITHERSBURG, Md. — As House Republicans move forward with legislation aimed at curbing...
Explainer: How Pass-Through Contracting and “Place of Performance” Rules Apply to ATI Government Solutions
By Michael Phillips | Thunder Report Recent reporting by Thunder Report and MDBayNews has raised questions about how ATI...
A Quiet Basement Suite and a Trail of Federal Contracts: Revisiting ATI Government Solutions’ Maryland Footprint
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews / Thunder Report When investigative journalist James O’Keefe released undercover footage...
Maryland Audit Flags Millions in Waste, Procurement Abuse, and Repeat Oversight Failures
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — A newly released state audit paints a troubling picture of how Maryland...
Top 5 Biggest Scandals and News Stories to Rock Maryland in 2025
By Michael Phillips | Maryland Bay News Maryland entered 2025 riding its familiar reputation as a deep-blue state with...
Montgomery County Audit Finds Years of Lax Oversight in EMS Reimbursement Program
By Michael Phillips | Maryland Bay News A new performance audit by the Montgomery County Office of the Inspector General is...
Maryland’s Mid-Cycle Redistricting Push Raises Questions About Priorities, Fairness, and Trust
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews As Maryland families grapple with rising electric bills, warnings of a $1.4 billion budget...
Maryland Launches New Small Business Data Platform — Innovation Meets Budget Reality
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On December 17, 2025, Governor Wes Moore announced the launch of the Maryland Community...
A $45 Million “Bump” Doesn’t Fix a $1.5 Billion Hole: Maryland’s Budget Reality Check
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland officials are touting a modestly improved revenue forecast as a sign of stability....
Fake Cases, Real Costs: Annapolis’ AI Blunder and Who Pays the Price
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Annapolis City Hall insists nothing unusual happened when City Attorney D. Michael Lyles’...
USDOT Pressures Maryland as Key Bridge Costs Double and Beltway Congestion Reaches Breaking Point
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland’s most important infrastructure project—the rebuilding of Baltimore’s...
EDITORIAL: Maryland’s Election Officials Created This Mess — Now They Need to Clean It Up Before the Courts Do
Maryland’s political leadership has spent years insisting its election system is a model of modern administration. But...
DOJ Sues Maryland Over Voter Data: What Citizens Need to Know About the Federal Election Transparency Fight
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The U.S. Department of Justice, now led by Attorney General Pam Bondi and Assistant...
When Local Government Fails, Taxpayers Should Have a Nuclear Option
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Right-of-Center Commentary Local government is supposed to be the closest to the people...
Rushed Flood Barriers, Rising Bills: Annapolis’ City Dock Push Lands Days Before Election
By Michael Phillips, MDBayNews Less than two days after floodwater once again swamped downtown streets, Annapolis moved...
A Broken System of Cronyism: How ‘Friends of Friends’ Run Annapolis City Hall
In Annapolis, even lame-duck politicians know how to take care of their friends. On October 27, just days before Election...
Annapolis’s Lame-Duck Lease: How the “Gang of 9” Locked Up a Waterfront Crown Jewel for Decades—and Stuck Taxpayers with the Bill
By Michael Phillips “This deal is just putting lipstick on a pig.”— Critics of the Market House lease In its final...
Tragedy in Curtis Bay: Father’s Guilty Plea in Toddler’s Death Exposes Maryland’s Broken Child Welfare System
BALTIMORE, MD – The guilty plea of Nathan Houck, a 32-year-old Curtis Bay father, in the fentanyl overdose death of his...
The Disabilities You Don’t See — and the Systems That Still Don’t See Us
America still pictures disability as something you can see: a wheelchair ramp, a white cane, a prosthetic limb.But for tens...
The Moral Economy of Neglect: How Maryland’s “Compassionate Governance” Betrays Its Foster Children
This investigation is part of MDBayNews’ coverage of child-welfare oversight in Maryland. All claims are sourced to...
Government Failure at Its Worst: How Maryland’s Foster System Left a 16-Year-Old Girl to Die in a Hotel Room
On September 22, 2025, tragedy struck in East Baltimore when 16-year-old foster child Kanaiyah Ward was found dead inside a...