STATE MISSED CRITICAL KEY BRIDGE VULNERABILITY PRIOR TO COLLAPSE: The Maryland Transportation Authority failed to conduct a critical vulnerability assessment that would have allowed them to identify previously known structural risks with the Francis Scott Key Bridge...
CROSSOVER DAY AT THE LEGISLATURE: The Maryland legislature hits a key deadline Monday, signaling the final three weeks of a 90-day session marked by budgetary woes and continual blows from the federal government. Hannah Gaskill/The Baltimore Sun. NEW FBI HQ GOES TO...
GOP ATTEMPT TO DERAIL ABORTION-FUNDING BILL FALL SHORT: The House of Delegates ultimately voted 98-37 along party lines Thursday night to approve House Bill 930, but not before 40 minutes of debate during a House session earlier in the day when Republicans tried to...
MD’S DEFICIT WIDENS BY $280 MILLION,WORSENING HISTORIC BUDGET GAP: A key fiscal panel cut another $280 million from the state’s revenue projections Thursday, warning of an impending “unnecessary negative shock” to the state’s economy driven by expected federal budget...
MOORE MAKES CASE FOR BUDGET PLAN: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore had a tough assignment on Thursday: sell his budget-balancing plan to a room full of people who see serious flaws in it. Pamela Wood and Brenda Wintrode/The Baltimore Banner. TAX-FREE SHOPPING COULD END,...
BGE CUSTOMERS PLEAD FOR RATE RELIEF: Baltimore’s City Council and Baltimore residents grilled and pleaded with Baltimore Gas and Electric Company officials for rate relief at a legislative investigations hearing on Thursday night, following months of outrage over...
NOT JUST MILLIONAIRES WOULD PAY MORE UNDER MOORE'S TAX PLAN: More than half a million Marylanders who earn $500,000 or less per year would see their income tax bills go up under Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s proposed revenue plan. An analysis of the proposal by the...
JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP’S FEDERAL WORKER BUYOUT PROGRAM, CALLED A ‘SCHEME’ BY MD LEADERS: A federal judge on Thursday temporarily paused President Trump’s plan to offer buyouts to millions of federal workers, an initiative aimed at trimming the federal workforce but that...
NO SURVIVORS FOUND IN CRASH BETWEEN MILITARY HELICOPTER AND JET OVER POTOMAC: An American Airlines regional jet carrying 64 people collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter late Wednesday near Reagan National Airport in Virginia just across from the District of...
$20 minimum wage by 2030 proposed; drone regulation for police is in the air; disability advocates say they’re not being heard.
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