Drivers in the Baltimore area and surrounding counties can expect snow showers and slippery road conditions on their commutes home Friday evening.

Here are six stories The Banner’s political team can’t stop thinking about.

Baltimore City embraces a Plan B for rats, so to speak.

“The movements for civil rights ... would never have come to be if people had given up their cause after a court case or a battle or an election did not go their way,” the vice president said.

Baltimore’s TIF-backed developments are, slowly but surely, making money, a new report finds.

The ghost gun in the Luigi Mangione case — a pistol with 3D-printed parts and a 3D-printed silencer — has highlighted the growing use of 3D-printed firearms.

It didn’t take long for the members of the 74th Baltimore City Council — they took their oaths of office 5 hours before Thursday night’s meeting, their first — to have a big debate.

For the most part Zeke Cohen and Mayor Brandon Scott are aligned, sharing a common political coalition and similar goals. But tension is inevitable.

Prosecutors are weighing whether to bring criminal charges against the Singapore-based companies who own and operate the Dali cargo ship that hit the Key Bridge.

These four freshmen say they’re here to shake up the status quo.

On Monday, Mosby smacked his gavel and said his customary “Baltimore, we love you,” putting a bow on the the legislative session for the 73rd Baltimore City Council and this chapter of his political career.

Graham’s departure is “effective immediately,” BOPA interim Chair and CEO Robyn Murphy said at the close of a special meeting Wednesday. Murphy was temporarily appointed to both roles while the board searches for new leadership.

O’Malley’s candidacy to lead the Democratic National Committee comes at a time of soul-searching and finger-pointing in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential victory.

The settlement doesn’t involve the exchange of money and required Jovani Patterson, the lone remaining plaintiff, to acknowledge the school system hadn’t broken any laws or violated any rules.

Former Maryland governor and Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley is among the names being floated to lead the Democratic National Committee after latest Trump victory.

The driver of the garbage truck backed into the sanitation worker, pinning him against a wooden light pole, the sources said.

“It was kind of a gift that David Smith and the proponents of the bill gave this city,” said Zac Blanchard, who unseated a Smith-backed candidate in May.

Baltimore gets four more years of Scott and his progressive, if not incremental, agenda.

Being popular doesn’t guarantee victory, and other lessons from Tuesdays election results.

City officials had made a late push against Question H, warning residents that approving the measure, which sought to cut the City Council to eight members from 14, would reduce representation and mean poorer constituent services.