Montgomery County, Maryland property tax rates would hold steady while the county puts more money into schools, affordable housing and other priorities under a spending plan unveiled by County Executive Marc Elrich (D) on Thursday.
Montgomery County, Maryland property tax rates would hold steady while the county puts more money into schools, affordable housing and other priorities under a spending plan unveiled by County Executive Marc Elrich (D) on Thursday.
Maryland’s budget problems worsened Thursday with tax receipts failing to hit estimates for the fifth consecutive time since the pandemic ended. The news quickly ratcheted up the rhetoric among Democrats, who are divided on whether now is the time to raise taxes.
Maryland’s iconic state capitol building in Annapolis shut down about 5 p.m. Thursday as State Police responded to a reported security threat. People at the scene were told to lock their doors and turn out the lights.
The latest poll from U.S. Rep. David Trone’s U.S. Senate campaign, released on Thursday, shows him widening a lead over Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks in the Democratic primary, 52% to 31% among likely voters.
The field of Republicans vying for U.S. Senate just got a little smaller as one of the leading candidates for the GOP nomination departs the race and endorses former Gov. Larry Hogan. John Teichert, a retired Air Force General, will announce he is ending the campaign he began last October and throwing his support behind Hogan, who was a surprise entry at the filing deadline last Friday.
SPEAKER JONES DEFENDS JUVENILE JUSTICE REFORM BILL: As Maryland lawmakers take on criticism for a proposed juvenile justice reform bill, House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones testified Thursday in its support. Jones, who rarely appears at bill hearings, spoke first before a...
Testimony in Marilyn Mosby’s mortgage fraud case wrapped up today as prosecutors took their last opportunity to challenge the defendant on her central narrative: That she relied on others when she failed to disclose on mortgage application forms, under penalty of perjury, the $69,000 federal tax debt that she and her then-husband – Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby – shared.
OFFSHORE WIND DEVELOPER PULLS OUT OF PACT WITH MD.: Maryland’s nascent offshore wind energy industry suffered a major blow late Thursday when one of the two companies planning to install wind turbines off the coast of Ocean City announced that it was “repositioning”...
Standing in a conference room of a downtown office tower, new Baltimore Sun owner David D. Smith started sharing opinions with his staff. He said Freddie Gray’s 2015 death and the subsequent prosecution of Baltimore Police officers left the department unwilling to do its job. Graduates of Baltimore City Schools were destined to be welfare recipients for the rest of their lives, products of an “inner city lifestyle.” And Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson and House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones are scared of what Smith’s area TV station, WBFF Fox 45, could do to them.
A top Maryland elections official resigned Thursday after his arrest this week on multiple charges that he participated in the U.S. Capitol attack, during which he allegedly encouraged officers trying to disperse rioters to instead “join us.” Federal investigators allege that Carlos Ayala, 52 – wearing a “Stop the Steal” button on an American flag hoodie – scaled a police barricade on Jan. 6, 2021, while carrying a black flag that read “DEFEND” and depicted an M-16-style rifle.
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