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Scott announces former D.C. Attorney General to join “independent review” of Side-Step

Karl Racine, of Hogan Lovells Cadwallader, along with the accounting firm Baker Tilly, will review the MONSE program that Baltimore Inspector General Cumming was probing when her access to records was ...
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Unionized nurses at Ascension St. Agnes go on strike again, calling out staffing shortages

For the second year in a row, unionized nurses at Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital in southwest Baltimore went on a 24-hour strike in protest of management’s failure to address staffing shortages, which ...
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City Council committee, including its parking-adverse chairman, approve special parking exception for MCB

Basically, I’m happy to flout the law,” Ryan Dorsey said, before voting to give developer David Bramble nearly double the number of parking spaces allowed under the law for a grocery store on North ...
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Baltimore Peninsula: Surprisingly built-out, though on a visit devoid of people

Pardon me if I sound a little shocked: I had not been to Port Covington – excuse me, Baltimore Peninsula – since my former employer, The Baltimore Sun, moved us out of there and squeezed the news ...
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Baltimore Sun staffers decry “non-union, sub-standard” Sinclair content in the paper under its new owners

For readers of The Baltimore Sun, the changes made to the paper since its purchase eight months ago by Sinclair Broadcast Group Executive Chairman David Smith have been startling. Brief, thinly ...
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A new state mandate requires jurisdictions to permit accessory dwelling units. Baltimore is making a mess of it

The City Council’s handling of Bill 25-0066 – a history-making Zoning Code amendment already marred by the body’s refusal to mail notices to affected property owners and the premature closure of ...
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Baltimore IG Cumming says the Scott administration is blocking her investigations

Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming today accused the Scott administration of obstructing her ability to investigate government fraud and abuse by redacting hundreds of pages of financial ...
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Marilyn Mosby convicted on one count of mortgage fraud

Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby was found guilty of one count of mortgage fraud today, but acquitted on another. Together with her felony conviction on two counts of perjury in ...
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EXCLUSIVE: HUD Baltimore field office to close, another casualty of Musk’s DOGE

The Baltimore field office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is soon to be permanently closed, along with scores of other HUD field offices across the country. Staffers say they ...
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Scott administration claims “full power” over the inspector general’s office, seeks dismissal of records access lawsuit

The Scott administration last night sought dismissal of a lawsuit by Baltimore’s inspector general that Circuit Court Judge Pamela J. White ruled should proceed, arguing that the mayor and city ...
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Despite earlier staff exodus, D’Andrea Walker is named by Olszewski as Baltimore County’s next chief administrator

Johnny Olszewski bent the rules to make her director of public works and transportation. Now she will assume the county’s No. 2 spot. Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski has promoted a ...
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Sensing the public mood, a City Council committee pumps the brakes on Mayor Scott’s zoning bill

Chairing a hearing on the most controversial bill before his Land Use and Transportation Committee, Councilman Ryan Dorsey yesterday announced “we have no intention of voting this bill today” and it ...