Baltimore County Executive says he stands ready to compromise on a better bill.

Housing secretary Jake Day said the bill would have a calamitous effect on rent and housing costs.

Sheila E. will headline this year's Artscape, the 40th anniversary of the free arts festival.

West Baltimore residents talk about what they’d like to see in Poppleton, now that the city is terminating its agreement with a New York developer that has struggled to build there.

The $8.45 million commitment will support commercial corridors, small businesses and rehabilitating vacant homes.

The worker-owned business employs a diverse workforce, which has first dibs on every home it rehabs.

Is a progressive bloc about to take hold of City Hall? The four newcomers don’t uniformly embrace the label.

The goal, developers say, is to turn affordable housing on its head — making seamless with surrounding communities and attractive to residents of various income brackets.

A longtime union leader, Jones ran a progressive campaign to unseat a two-term East Baltimore stalwart. He joins a wave of young, progressive-leaning candidates set to join the council.

Zac Blanchard, Jermaine Jones and Paris Gray maintained their advantages in Baltimore City Council races as Friday’s deadline for certifying results approached.

Canvassers poured over almost 5,000 provisional and mail-in ballots Wednesday, more than initially expected. Of those, about 2,000 were thrown out, and about 744 will be only “partially accepted,” or counted in statewide races, due largely to voters filling out ballots in the wrong council district or to unaffiliated voters erroneously participating in the May 14 closed primary, city Board of Elections representatives said Wednesday evening.

On Wednesday, canvassers will begin reviewing at least 6,000 additional provisional ballots and elections officials expect to use the rest of the week to tally up those votes.

“I need to do everything that I can to try to avoid the avoidable ones, and then try to help people once they have been evicted,” Cogen said.

About 25,000 outstanding votes were expected to help decide at least three closely contested City Council races that have not yet declared winners.

Voters have become more familiar with mailed-in ballots over the last four years, experts said, which makes accounting for turnout a more arduous process.

Baltimore voters choose stability; Dixon’s die-hards; low turnout; and other things we learned from Tuesday’s results.

Around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, the race was too close to call; with seven of 17 precincts reported, Gray had the slightest of edges.

The Baltimore City Council is not likely to change much as several incumbents, facing lesser-known or scantily funded opponents, were poised to handily win their races.

The East Baltimore district has been reshaped, adding Little Italy and Harbor East to neighborhoods including Greenmount West, Oldtown and Remington.

Candidates seeking to get their names out to voters before May 14 are spending heavily on campaign materials, media spots and direct mailers.