Emergency procurements not only skirt around Board of Estimates approval. They delay and sometimes hide public disclosure of how taxpayer money is used. Here are the two latest examples.

County Executive Kathy Klausmeier approved the $100,000 settlement with Patrick Murray in a case that she and her predecessor, Johnny Olszewski, never wanted to win. [OP-ED] ...

It’s not that the job has become harder. It is that it has become impossible,” the lawyer representing the watchdog agency tells Judge Pamela White.

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

A chronology of the dispute between IG Isabel Cumming and Mayor Brandon Scott that could cripple her office’s ability to investigate corruption in city government. [OP-ED] ...

The pipe break or leak, down the hill from Tudor Arms Avenue, near the Wyman Park Apartments, is sending the substance into a stream that’s a tributary of the Jones Falls and Chesapeake Bay.

Belair-Edison residents sent multiple emails, made multiple 311 complaints and watched as violations and fines piled up but the garbage remained – finally, they gave up on city government and took ...

Weak permit allowed north Baltimore facility to begin operations without requiring it to pass emissions tests, she says, calling on Maryland to amend it ...

Source describes the fired manager as a “scapegoat” for chronic issues facing the two sewage treatment plants.

Retired Baltimore City Solicitor and former U.S. Appeals Court Judge Andre M. Davis has issued a sharp rebuke to his successor’s claim that the Maryland Public Information Act (MPIA) restricts the ...