Maryland Payrolls Fall Again in September, Down 20,100 Jobs in Two Months
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland had an estimated 8,800 fewer payroll jobs in September than in August, and the...
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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...
Maryland’s Sports Betting Haul Hit $132 Million. The New Fiscal Year Is Starting Slower.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland's sportsbooks sent $132.3 million to the state in fiscal year 2026, a 48.8 percent...
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....
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...
Maryland Week in Review: A Federal Suit Over Masks, 370-Plus New Laws and a Sphere Deal Stuck on Labor
MDBayNews Staff Many of Maryland's new laws take effect on Oct. 1. This year, one of them was in federal court before the...
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....
The One Line Item That Can’t Be Cut by Memo
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Two dozen Maryland cabinet agencies got a memo this month telling them to model what it...
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...
Maryland Week in Review: A $3 Billion Budget Gap, Another Premium Hike and a Question 3 Poll War
By MDBayNews Staff Last week in Maryland was mostly about money, and the news was not all good. State revenue came in...
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...
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...
Maryland’s Housing Chief Acknowledges What Builders Have Said for Years
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews ANNAPOLIS — Maryland's top housing official told state lawmakers this month that nearly...
Green Party’s Ellis Calls for Statewide Data Center Ban as Moore Signs Executive Order
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE — Andy Ellis, the Green Party nominee for governor, called Wednesday for a...
Moore Orders Data Center Review and a Public Dashboard, but No Pause and No Repeal Yet
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore signed an executive order Wednesday that sets one review process for large...
Democrats Call Him an Out-of-State ‘Plant.’ His Campaign Says He Was Born in Baltimore County.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Maryland Democratic Party wants voters in northern Baltimore County to see Republican...
Moore Rolls Out New “AI Principles” as Marylanders Wait on Tax Answers
Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore's office posted a new policy document this week called "AI Principles," a...
The Case Dan Cox Isn’t Making
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland has a real affordability story right now. Dan Cox just isn't the one telling it...
The Union Playbook: Hilton’s California Fix and Maryland’s Test
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Steve Hilton has a blunt diagnosis for why California kids can't read. On X this week, the...
Maryland’s Own Websites Haven’t Caught Up to Its Bond Rating Shakeup
By Greg Visscher | MDBayNews | Guest Contribution Maryland's official budget website still tells residents the state holds...
Behind the Jobs Numbers: Maryland’s Layoff List Keeps Growing in 2026
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews PepsiCo is walking away from a Cheverly bottling plant that has run for more than 60 years,...
Question 3: What Maryland’s Redistricting Amendment Actually Does, and Why It Deserves a No
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Gov. Wes Moore spent Thursday in Washington predicting Marylanders will vote overwhelmingly...
Green Party Candidate Says MPT Chairman’s Donations to Moore Raise Conflict of Interest Questions
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews BALTIMORE, Md. — Green Party gubernatorial candidate Andy Ellis is accusing the head of...
GOP Delegate Nominee: Maryland’s Watchdogs Keep Getting Blocked by the Governments They’re Supposed to Police
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Two Maryland governments got caught this year restricting the very people whose job is to...
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...
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...
The CDC Paid Baltimore Teens to Sell Vaccines to Their Peers. It Wasn’t Just Baltimore, and Its Own Researchers Couldn’t Show It Worked.
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Baltimore, MD — For nearly a year, a small group of Baltimore teenagers was paid to...
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...
From Tragedy to Statute: How 9/11 Reshaped Maryland’s Security Apparatus
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, much of Maryland's modern homeland-security...