Tasked with promoting civil rights and equity at Baltimore’s biggest civilian agency, Linda Batts says she was blocked, then terminated for “doing her job.” ...

The administration’s latest assault on the city’s corruption watchdog doesn’t hold up to legal scrutiny and raises a harsh question: what are they hiding? [OP-ED] ...

The chips resemble the lead paint flakes that fell in 2022 from Baltimore’s TV Tower. City officials do not believe they contain lead, but MDE is now testing them.

Scott Plank’s generosity to Democratic electeds – including $20,000 to the party’s Senate caucus committee – came ahead of the Baltimore Board of Estimates’ approval yesterday of a $17.9 million lease ...

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Former members have also popped up, wagging a finger at their successors for what they call “a sharp departure from the ethical standards they observed while serving on the council.” ...

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Between the continuing chaos in Minneapolis and ICE’s apparent plan to turn a Hagerstown warehouse into a detention center, they had plenty to protest today.

Building renovations, not recent public controversies, are the grounds for the cancellation of public testimony, council chair says.

Mayor Brandon Scott and his law department are making bogus claims to deny Isabel Mercedes Cumming access to records needed for her watchdog investigations. [OP-ED] ...

Rising from the Council to a seat on the Board of Estimates yields a flood of campaign cash. What went to whom in 2025, from Alex Smith’s Atlas Restaurant Group to Johns Hopkins University.

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