The Maryland Office of the People’s Counsel, which has estimated the conduit deal could cost BGE ratepayers upwards of $860 million over 50 years, is calling on state regulators to publicize an internal accounting memo about the deal.
Former Gov. Larry Hogan channels former President Ronald Reagan at the end of a new 90-second video, saying: “I believe in peace through strength. And I believe in standing up for our allies and standing up to our enemies. We need to stand with our allies and secure peace through strength.”
The proposed charter amendment, which would go before voters in the 2024 general election if backers collect enough signatures, takes aim at a group of large nonprofit institutions that are exempt from paying property taxes to the city.
Council President Mosby admonished the mayor for the eleventh hour veto Monday night. The evening’s council meeting represented the last chance for the body to override a veto before a statutory 60-day deadline expires Nov. 17.
A race for Congress in a district that stretches from the western edge of Maryland to the D.C. suburbs is shaping up with multiple contenders, including some familiar names.
Three staffers were on leave Monday from the Belair-Edison outpost following a federal law enforcement operation last week that included 15 different raids, including the Safe Streets site.
Maryland law requires that lawsuits to collect a debt are filed within three years of when a debt was accrued, a provision the inspector general says finance officials cited to justify writing off those old debts, though they acknowledged the city could still pursue the money by billing the contractors.
Under Sheldon Goldseker’s stewardship, his family's foundation donated over $130 million to more than 600 nonprofits and other institutions in the Baltimore area.
Council President Nick Mosby has moved rapidly this week to finalize and approve an alternative map. But Mayor Brandon Scott could ensure his own version goes into effect by waiting until the end of a statutory 60-day window to veto, or by taking no action at all.
Collectively, the Harlem Park Three served 108 years in prison for the crime — “the longest combined wrongful conviction term in American history,” according to their attorneys, who have argued that the Baltimore Police Department detectives who put their clients behind bars decades ago fabricated evidence in order to get a conviction.
State investigators found the Hawkins Point facility’s former operator routinely violated state environmental law by knowingly disposing of partially burned and “uncooked” biohazardous materials.
Mosby aims to hold a public input session on his proposal Wednesday evening before moving rapidly to vote the map through committee Thursday afternoon and take a vote for final passage at a special meeting that night. The mayor’s office pushed back on that quick turnaround, which it called “troubling,” extending a dispute between the two sides over the timeline of this year’s redistricting process.
The extraordinary payout in the case of the so-called “Harlem Park Three” is likely tens of millions of dollars larger than any of its kind in recent years.
Baltimore's revived attempt at a focused deterrence model has shown promise – coinciding with a 33% reduction in shootings during a pilot run in the Western District – but also cracks at points during the city's aggressive expansion push.
Jason Mitchell resigned from the Department of Public Works earlier this year following a tumultuous tenure marked by and E. coli scare, a state takeover of a city wastewater plant, and curtailed recycling services.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said at a Wednesday morning press conference that the shooting likely stemmed from a dispute between “two smaller groups.”