Moore Says Marylanders Are Right to Worry About AI. He Won’t Say What He’d Do About It.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews PIKESVILLE, Md. — Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, says Marylanders have good reason to be...
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Eight Days, Ten Announcements: What Moore’s Late-Summer Sprint Actually Delivers
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — Between Sept. 1 and Sept. 8, Gov. Wes Moore's office issued 10 press...
Maryland’s Jobs Are Coming Back. The State’s Own Choices Keep Getting in the Way.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's private employers added nearly 11,000 jobs in July, the strongest single month...
Maryland’s New Tech Tax Brought In 77% Less Than Promised. Business Groups Want It Gone.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — Maryland's new tax on business IT and data services closed its first full...
Maryland Ranks 7th Nationally for Lifetime Tax Burden, New Study Finds
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A Marylander who works 45 years and lives to the average life expectancy will hand over...
Corporate Profits Are Booming. Maryland Workers Should Ask Where Their Share Went.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Corporate America is having a very good year. U.S. corporate profits reached an annualized...
Maryland’s Next Payroll Tax Is Coming in 2027 — A Year Before Benefits Begin
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland workers and businesses have another mandatory cost coming, and it will show up...
Maryland Democrats Can’t Decide Whether the Economy Is Booming or Collapsing
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland Democrats have developed a remarkably convenient economic theory: when the numbers...
Marylanders Need Nearly $108,000 to Live Comfortably, New Study Finds. Families Need Almost $258,000.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A single adult in Maryland now needs an annual pre-tax income of $107,910 to live...
At MACo, Cox Presses the Case Against Moore’s Record on Taxes, Energy, and the Key Bridge
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews OCEAN CITY — Dan Cox stood before Maryland's county officials Saturday and made a simple...
Another Dock Street Business Closes. This Time, the Jobs Lost Belong to Workers Who Have the Hardest Time Finding New Ones
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS, Md. Bitty & Beau's Coffee will pour its last cup on Dock Street next month,...
Moore Holds 27-Point Lead as Fundraising Gap With Cox Widens Ahead of November
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A new statewide poll released this week shows Gov. Wes Moore with a commanding 27-point...
Maryland Ranked 35th Best State to Live In. Its Schools Help — Everything Else Doesn’t.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland landed 35th out of 50 states in WalletHub's 2026 "Best States to Live In" ranking,...
What Moore Announced — And What Comes Next
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore held his press conference Wednesday. It was, by the standards of...
The Hand They’re Not Playing: How Maryland Can Rebuild Horse Racing After the Preakness Shake-Up
Maryland owns the assets, the history, and the window. What it needs is a strategy — and someone willing to make the...
Blindsided, Again
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Editor's Note: MDBayNews published this morning, at approximately 11:30 am, the first...
The Bet That Already Lost
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Breaking — August 3, 2026This morning, Churchill Downs Incorporated and the New York...
On Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Full-Time Work Isn’t Enough — And It’s Not Just Baltimore City Anymore
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Statewide, a nursing assistant working full time, every week of the year, has roughly a...
Seven Stops, Five States, Three Weeks: Where Wes Moore Has Been While Maryland Waits on Affordability
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — On the same day House and Senate Republicans stood in Annapolis calling a...
A Council Answering to 5 Percent Just Ended a 34-Year Relationship With Israel
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Montgomery County has quietly ended its funding relationship with the Maryland Israel...
A Government Chosen By 5 Percent Is Taxing The Other 95
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Montgomery County's property tax bills have been landing in mailboxes for two weeks, and...
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....
Paying Twice: The Federal Deal Costing Maryland Ratepayers Hundreds Of Millions For Two Anne Arundel Power Plants
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Every Baltimore Gas and Electric customer — 1.2 million households and businesses across...
Maryland’s Economy Isn’t Growing. The Numbers Say Something Sharper.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland officials have spent much of the past year touting job growth numbers as evidence...
Annapolis Doesn’t Pay to Play. Marylanders Do.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland families are getting squeezed from every direction this summer — a property tax...
The Baltimore Sun Got the World Cup Wrong. Watch the Fans.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Baltimore Sun promoted Josh Tolentino's column this week with a tweet calling the 2026...
The Governor Bought a Horse Race
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On Thursday, with five days remaining before a primary election, Governor Wes Moore's...
Who Pays for the Data Center Boom? In Maryland, the Answer Is Already You.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The question was never whether Maryland wanted data centers. The state answered that years...
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...
Did Churchill Downs Give Wes Moore Buyer’s Remorse?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews — Maryland on the Map When Governor Wes Moore announced Maryland's plan to purchase...
Moore Celebrated a 2030 Port Terminal on Friday. But Last Tuesday, He Fired the Bridge Contractor.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews On Friday, May 1, Governor Wes Moore stood at Coke Point in Dundalk and declared a new...
Moore Kicks Off. The GOP Is Still a No-Show.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Governor Wes Moore launched the active phase of his reelection campaign today in Baltimore...
Maryland Spent $450 Million. Churchill Downs Bought the Crown Jewel. Moore Wasn’t Invited.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews This Saturday, as the 152nd Kentucky Derby runs at Churchill Downs, Democratic governors...
Maryland Ranks Among the Most Expensive States for Groceries — And a New Law Probably Won’t Fix That
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland families already know what the data confirm: buying groceries here costs more than...
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...
NFL Draft Coming to the National Mall — A Win for DC’s Suburbs, Another Missed Moment for Baltimore
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Washington, D.C., is set to host the 2027 NFL Draft on the National Mall, with the event...
MARYLAND’S PORTS FEEL THE SHOCK OF A DISTANT WAR — AND RELIEF ISN’T COMING SOON
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Strait of Hormuz is roughly 7,000 miles from the Port of Baltimore. But the economic...
Wes Moore’s Missing Year
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — Wes Moore has had a busy year. In the spring of 2025, he delivered a...
The Signing Ceremony State
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — There is a version of Maryland governance that lives in press releases and...