Coverage of Baltimore and the region for The Brew by Dan Rodricks. After writing an award-winning column for the Baltimore Sun for 46 years, Rodricks resigned in January 2025, a year after the Sun's ...

Baltimore Brew broke the key aspects of a controversy that dogged Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. ahead of his 2024 election to a Maryland Congressional seat. County pension officials ...

Council gives preliminary (but not final) approval for expanded grocery store parking on West North Avenue sought by developer P. David Bramble.

Antoinette Ryan-Johnson was appalled to read the latest report from the Office of the Inspector General describing hazardous conditions for Baltimore solid waste workers. Not just because of the lack ...

Johns Hopkins University went ahead and did it. It cut down nine trees on Remington Avenue for its Data Science and AI (DSAI) Institute project despite months of protests, a petition with more than ...

It happened to Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming suddenly during a snowy weekend in January: her online access to city records was cut off. This followed a subpoena issued by her ...

Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby spent two weeks in Europe in May 2019, learning about the prison systems in Germany and Portugal while staying at the Hilton Berlin and Lisbon’s ...

Back in 2011 when Maryland classified trash incineration as “renewable energy” – elevating it to the same status as solar and wind and subsidizing it to the tune of millions of dollars per year – two ...

The battle between residents and Johns Hopkins University over tree cutting for its planned data science complex on the southwest side of campus will be flaring in City Hall this morning, as the ...

New findings on a controversial city-run youth diversion program include thousands of dollars worth of fraudulent invoices and a data breach in which more than 700 names – many of them juveniles – ...

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 ...

Sinclair Broadcast Group, chaired by David D. Smith, made headlines earlier this month when the media conglomerate forbid the television stations it owns across the country from airing Jimmy Kimmel’s ...