Rutledge Says Back River Plant Is ‘An Epic Failure,’ Presses Brown on Enforcement
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BEL AIR, MD — Republican attorney general nominee Jim Rutledge called Baltimore's Back...
Tag: Maryland politics
EDITORIAL: Maryland Didn’t Need a Reparations Commission. It Especially Doesn’t Need This One.
MDBayNews Editorial Maryland's Reparations Commission is finally getting its members this month, five years after the idea...
Maryland’s Reparations Commission Is Taking Shape. It’s Also a Different Commission Than Lawmakers Passed.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — A state commission that took years to authorize is finally close to...
Moore Administration Orders Two Dozen Agencies to Model 10% Budget Cuts as Deficit Deepens
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews State agencies across Maryland have been ordered to show how they would absorb cuts they...
Maryland’s 5th District Heads to November With a Field Winnowed to Three
By MDBayNews Staff Maryland's 5th Congressional District spent the first half of 2026 as the state's most crowded primary...
Delaney’s Family Account Kept Buying Stock. She Also Voted No on a Trading Crackdown.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Rep. April McClain Delaney has cosponsored a bill that would ban members of Congress, their...
Three Bills to Require 9/11 Education in Maryland Schools Have Died. None Has Been Reintroduced.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews As the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, Maryland has no law on the...
Green Party’s Ellis Releases MPT Records, Presses for a Seat at the Oct. 6 Debate
By MDBayNews Staff Green Party gubernatorial nominee Andy Ellis released a batch of internal Maryland Public Television...
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 Republicans Went Quiet on the One Day They Should Have Been Loudest, With a Few Notable Exceptions
Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | OPINION Labor Day is supposed to be an easy layup for any candidate running on...
Jawando Hospitalized After Heart Attack, Campaign Says He’s Recovering
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Will Jawando, the Democratic nominee for Montgomery County executive, suffered a heart...
The Union That Always Picked Brown Just Picked His Opponent
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews For as long as Anthony Brown has run statewide, Maryland's police union has been in his...
Supreme Court Rules Redistricting Question Stays on Ballot, Orders Ballot Language Rewritten
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — The Supreme Court of Maryland ruled Thursday evening that voters will get to...
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...
The Delegate Whose Own Business Fled the Tax Won’t Be Around to Revisit It
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews LEONARDTOWN — This week's news that Maryland's IT services tax collected 77% less than...
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...
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...
District 17 Preview: Kagan Seeks a Fourth Term as a Familiar Face Returns on the Republican Line
Montgomery County's District 17 is not where Maryland Republicans expect to win in November, but it is where one of them is...
Moore Calls $28.5 Million in EV Grants “Lowering Costs.” Maryland’s Electric-Bus Record Deserves More Scrutiny.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore has a new answer to rising gas prices: spend $28.5 million funding...
Wells’ Pitch to Friedson’s Voters, and the Numbers Behind It
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews | Election Coverage Esther Wells wants Andrew Friedson's voters, and she's making her case...
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...
A Sewage Closure Becomes a Campaign Ad Within the Hour in Howard County
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Guilford Elementary School in Columbia shut its doors Wednesday morning, the third day of...
What “Meeting Expenses” Buys: A Look Inside Maryland Campaign Spending
Maryland campaign finance reports do not require candidates to explain themselves. A committee can log a $3,000 charge to a...
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...
Maryland’s Voter Rolls Are Shifting: Democrats Shrink as Unaffiliated Voters Surge
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland remains a heavily Democratic state, but the makeup of its...
While Van Hollen Kicks the Tires in New Hampshire, Who Is Minding Maryland?
By Michael Phillips, MDBayNews Sen. Chris Van Hollen sat across from Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press" this past Sunday...
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...
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...
While the WNBA Fights Over Sophie Cunningham, Maryland Quietly Stays the Course
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has spent the back half of the WNBA season as the...
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...
Who Actually Paid for the New M&T Bank Stadium
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Ravens unveiled the finished version of their stadium this month. Three years of...
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...
Fitzwater vs. Holtzinger: Money and Data Centers Define Frederick’s Fall Race
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Frederick County voters will decide in November whether Jessica Fitzwater gets four more...
District 9 is genuinely up for grabs, with a competitive Senate race topping the ticket
By MDBayNews Staff Legislative District 9, split between western Howard County and a slice of northern Montgomery County,...
The 27-Point Question: Why Wes Moore’s Poll Deserves More Scrutiny
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A fake polling operation just admitted that it fabricated political surveys and watched...
Maryland Officials React to Court Ruling Restoring FBI Headquarters to Greenbelt
Maryland leaders began responding Monday to the federal court decision striking down the Trump administration's attempt to...
Trump’s FBI Headquarters Switch Is Dead — For Now. Greenbelt Is Back in Play.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A federal judge sitting in Greenbelt ruled Monday that the Trump administration had no...
Moore Says Families Shouldn’t Go Into Debt for Back-to-School. His Own Tax Holiday Doesn’t Cover the Supply List.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore used his personal X account Monday to tell Maryland families that...
A real swing district, an unconventional GOP challenger, and a Senate seat with no primary drama at all
By MDBayNews Staff Legislative District 8, covering Rosedale, Overlea, Parkville, Perry Hall, Carney and White Marsh in...
A 90-to-1 Fundraising Gap: Inside the MD-3 General Election
By MDBayNews Staff Maryland's 3rd Congressional District has its November matchup set: Democratic incumbent Sarah Elfreth...