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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

David Bramble’s plans for a massive apartment and retail complex at Baltimore’s Pratt and Light streets would alter longstanding priorities for public open space there. A SPECIAL Brew report.

Julian E. Jones Jr., chairman of the Baltimore County Council, likely violated the county’s electronic communications policy by soliciting campaign contributions on a county email address, a report ...

The IG Advisory Board approves the hiring of outside legal counsel. Cumming reveals her fight with the Scott administration centers on MONSE. UPDATE: Mayor’s office says legal action by OIG in her ...

In the fall of 2020, incoming mayor Brandon Scott surprised environmental groups and disappointed community leaders by reneging on a campaign promise to support ending the city’s practice of sending ...

Since the purchase five months ago of the Baltimore Sun by conservative broadcast mogul David D. Smith, staffers have been watching for changes, bristling at some (the rightward tilt of the op-ed ...

Children in Baltimore suffer from asthma at a rate more than double the national average, but the city’s response to this long-recognized disparity has continued to fall short, according to a new ...

Seeking to control and perhaps curtail current and future investigations of his administration, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has declared war on the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and on Inspector ...

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 ...