After passing a “small box store” bill aimed at curbing the spread of dollar stores and their ilk, Baltimore City Council members have now introduced legislation intended to rein in the proliferation ...

At the direction of a “former management employee,” the Baltimore Department of Social Services misused nearly $2 million intended for poor children and did not properly account for another $5.5 ...

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 ...

The Anthony Hall settlement comes in addition to the $75 million-plus expended by Baltimore City since 2020 to settle police misconduct and wrongful conviction cases.

The fee increase represents a reversal of Mayor Scott’s 2023 decision to end franchise fees for BGE in exchange for its capital investments in the network.

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.

Talk about a “game changer.” Once hailed as an economic engine that would reduce Baltimore property taxes and shower local communities with gambling revenues, Horseshoe Casino Baltimore was quietly ...

A City Council vote to rezone the Harford Road corridor for apartment conversions and new construction was postponed last night by Councilman Ryan Dorsey, opening up a new phase of his showdown with ...

City dwellers who complain about losing parking spaces these days are urged to give up their car-centric ways and get in step with efforts to make urban areas denser, more transit oriented and more ...

Living in West Baltimore’s Poppleton neighborhood has been heartbreaking for residents – the city taking their homes by eminent domain for a project that’s dragged on for a decade, spawning more ...

“I never dreamed that I would be investigated by the police department for doing my job according to Baltimore County Policy and Procedure.” So wrote Michael R. Beichler to the Baltimore County ...

After a lengthy investigation, Baltimore County’s Inspector General Kelly Madigan released a report with some startling findings: A longtime county official illegally waived millions of dollars in ...