The City Council is slated to hold back-to-back confirmation hearings Thursday night for Mayor Brandon Scott’s nominees, acting Police Commissioner Richard Worley and acting Fire Chief James Wallace.

The proposed map redrawing council district lines across the city is required ahead of next year’s election. With the mayor’s draft in hand, the City Council has 60 days to adopt it or submit its own alternative.

For some, the decision to bring the hearing to a close reflected sensitivity and humanity. For others, it exposed a blind spot of local government.

The wrenching testimony from the mother of a victim halted the hearing, which had been focused on a breakdown in police-community relations.

The report highlights many problems agencies had already been dinged for in previous years, with numerous issues surfacing in audits dating back as far as 2017.

This massive bill has accrued because, while the housing authority has been paying some of its water bill to the city it has not been paying them in full, staff from both the housing authority and the Department of Public Works told the inspector general’s office.

A federal jury found this week that two Anne Arundel County politicians owe a former worker at a gym they co-own nearly $5,000 after she said she was improperly fired.

Baltimore’s spending board considered more than $9 million worth of urgent requests or retroactive emergency items on Wednesday, an unusual pileup that comes as government operations remain frequently stymied by a dysfunctional purchasing system.

A 2017 federal consent decree required the Baltimore Police Department to install an advanced “early intervention system” that will track its officers.

Because utilities are not typically able to earn a return on investment from assets like the conduit that they don’t own, David Lapp with the Office of the People’s Counsel called the arrangement a “monopoly company’s gambit” to benefit its investors at the expense of its customers.

Mayor Brandon Scott and agency leaders accepted blame and promised to hold people accountable for the July 2 shooting that killed two and injured 28.

The report includes some new details on the presence of the city’s flagship violence intervention group, Safe Streets, and highlights policy changes aimed at better preparing city agencies for large events that could erupt into violence.

The office tower at the corner of Redwood and Light streets was appraised last month at $10 million.

Maryland Capitol Police charged the group with refusal to leave public grounds and misdemeanor failure to obey an order. Anne Arundel County District Court Judge Danielle Mosley dismissed all the charges at the request of the county’s state’s attorney, CASA announced this week.

In many cases, pools have a dire need for repairs that built up over a half-century of deferred maintenance, parks Director Reginald Moore told council members.

Land banks function as a middle-man that acquires large swaths of vacant properties, clears their debts and title issues and then puts them into the hands of responsible developers, often by selling them below market value. But Mayor Scott and his housing department have questioned the idea.

The season has always brought a sense of nervousness for city leaders, and this year Baltimore is grappling with an alarming surge in teen gun violence — the most dangerous year for teenagers since at least 2015.

Part of Mayor Scott’s broader investment in alternative approaches to violent crime, the reentry program was originally billed to serve 3,000 people. The city now aims to enroll just over 1,000.

Marylanders approve of the job Moore is doing, but not his push to eventually ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035, according to a new poll.

The specialized unit charged with implementing the city’s flagship strategy has struggled with high-profile departures and simmering morale problems.