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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 ...

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 ...

At Baltimore’s Inner Harbor this week, the air was warm, the sky was blue and the water shimmered. But the foot traffic was sparse, and it was easy to see why. With the two Harborplace buildings at ...

On January 13, 2011, shortly after then-state Senator Catherine Pugh received the first bulk order for her self-published children’s book from the University of Maryland Medical System, Keith E.

The Scott administration spent three times more than originally estimated – and seven times more than a rival bid – for a redesign of the city’s website that’s a year behind schedule and still not ...

A dozen users of Baltimore’s conduit system are asking that Mayor Brandon Scott respond to their concerns before signing a deal that would turn over future conduit improvements to Baltimore Gas & ...

If once you don’t succeed, double the asking price and apply under another mayor. This formula is proving a winner for a well-connected nonprofit that’s been snagging millions of public dollars – for ...

A bill to give government agencies greater power to deny public information requests – allowing agencies, for example, to ignore for an unspecified period of time all of the requests of individuals or ...

In Baltimore and across Maryland abandoned “ghost cars” become collateral damage in the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.

The marchers who stood in the rain outside the gates of the CSX coal facility in Curtis Bay – carrying signs that said “Coal Kills” and chanting “CSX has got to go!” – pegged their protest to a grim ...

The final service in the old funeral parlor came in the winter of 2021-2022, when Ronald Taylor II, the last mortician to operate at 108 West North Avenue, provided cold storage for the bodies of ...