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    Mayor Brandon Scott taps longtime friend Calvin Young as chief of staff
    Calvin Young III will replace Marvin James, Scott’s chief of staff of two years, who is stepping down next month
    Mayor Brandon Scott has chosen Calvin Young III to be his fourth chief of staff.
    Letter: Maryland lawmakers should better protect trans people
    The Maryland General Assembly is on track for the first time in years to not pass a single bill focused on trans Marylanders.
    A participant in the Baltimore Trans Pride Grand March holds the Transgender Flag while marching in Baltimore, MD on 6/29/2024.
    Maryland has a ‘dire’ energy problem. Or does it?
    Legislation backed by top Democrats aims to address rising energy prices and ballooning demand by building power plants.
    Transmission lines travel north from Calvert Cliffs Clean Energy Center, Constellation’s nuclear power plant in Lusby, Maryland.
    Letter: Bill Ferguson should allow vote on bill prohibiting automatically charging youths as adults
    Two members of Jews United for Justice urge Senate President Bill Ferguson to agree to put SB422, which would stop youths from automatically being charged as adults for crimes, to a vote in the state Senate.
    Senate President Bill Ferguson moderates floor debate during crossover day at the Maryland State House in Annapolis earlier this month.
    Letter: Power line bill could open path for environmental exploitation
    A reader says a proposed power transmission line that crossed three protected Maryland wildlands will not benefit our state and would encourage future environmental exploitation.
    Dan’s Mountain Wildlife Management Area
    The long-closed Lake Montebello loop is reopening — for now
    Crews have finished filling in a massive sink hole at Lake Montebello, a reservoir in Northeast Baltimore. Another project is planned for fall.
    The new steel and cement replacement pipe can be seen next to a group of representatives from DPW, Garney Construction and The Baltimore Banner at the bottom of a six-story deep excavation at Lake Montebello on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024 in Baltimore, MD.
    Mistrial in Annapolis mass shooting offers a rare second chance for justice
    When Charles Robert Smith returns to an Annapolis courtroom in September, prosecutor Anne Colt Leitess should be absent, not Judge Michael Wachs. There should be consequences when a prosecutor stumbles.
    Loved ones of Mario Mireles Ruiz, his father Nicolas Mireles, and their friend Christian Marlon Segovia Jr. walk towards City Dock for a vigil in 2024.
    As electric vehicle sales lag, Maryland might punt fines for car companies
    Under the Maryland program, part of the California-led Clean Cars II emissions standards, nearly half of new cars that roll off dealership lots need to be electric by the fall of 2026 or auto manufacturers could face fines.
    CORTE MADERA, CALIFORNIA - JULY 28: A Polestar electric car prepares to park at an EV charging station on July 28, 2023 in Corte Madera, California. Seven major automakers announced plans earlier this week to increase the number of high-powered electric vehicle chargers in the country with 30,000 new charging stations along highways and in urban areas. According to the Energy Department, there are currently an estimated  32,000 chargers across the country.
    Cohen, councilmembers take BGE rate fight to city streets
    The fight against Baltimore Gas and Electric Company’s planned rate increases escalated Thursday as a contingent of city leaders took to the streets to rally residents against the energy giant’s proposal.
    Baltimore City Council President Zeke Cohen, left, and councilmember Mark Parker, right, speak with residents David and Deneen Colson in Baltimore's 13th District about rising Baltimore Gas and Electric rates on Thursday.
    Columbia Association board eyes takeover of village facilities. But at what cost?
    The Columbia Association is weighing proposals to take over the community buildings and centers that are now run by the planned community’s 10 villages. The recommendations are triggering a debate about Columbia’s future.
    The Other Barn in Columbia is a community building managed by the Oakland Mills Community Association.
    Annapolis community left traumatized, angry after bus stop shooting that left father dead
    Annapolis Police are still searching for the man they say opened fire at a school bus stop on Clay Street in the morning of March 19.
    Annapolis resident Shawnte Brown, at microphone, addresses a panel of public officials during a listening session at First Baptist Church in Annapolis on Tuesday night.
    For Key Bridge families, an emotional visit one year later
    First responders escorted families of the Francis Scott Key Bridge victims to mark the one-year anniversary.
    Family members of the victims of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse participate in a memorial alongside Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and Gov. Wes Moore on March 25, 2025 in Baltimore, MD.
    Is breaching Baltimore County’s urban-rural divide ‘the dumbest growth possible?’
    As the Baltimore County Council considers a measure that would make it harder to change its Urban Rural Demarcation Line, here are answers to five questions about the decades-old URDL.
    Prettyboy Dam impounds the Gunpowder Falls to create the 1500-acre Prettyboy Reservoir in northern Baltimore County.
    DPW worker had heat illness for days before dying on job last summer, OIG says
    Ronald Silver II called out sick the day before he died during his trash collection shift because of heat-related illness.
    DPW employee Ronald Silver II had shown symptoms of heat-related illness for several days before he died after working a shift last summer, according to a new inspector general report.
    Developers’ project at WWII aircraft plant in Middle River is polluting the bay, suit says
    Environmentalists and Middle River residents are suing the developers behind a sprawling project at a World War II-era manufacturing plant near Martin State Airport.
    The 53-acre Aviation Station site includes the large building seen to the left of Martin State Airport above.
    Sorry not sorry: Maryland Trump voters have no regrets
    Maryland Trump voters defended his “chainsaw approach” all the while acknowledging its certain impact on their home state.
    WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: A Pro-Trump supporter holding a MAGA hat stands outside of the United States Capitol before the inauguration of the 47th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Cold temperatures have forced the ceremony inside, but spectators still gather outside and around the city to celebrate.
    Sarah David wants to change the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office
    Currently the deputy Maryland state prosecutor, Sarah David will announce her candidacy for state’s attorney Wednesday.
    Deputy Maryland state prosecutor Sarah David, right, laughs as Maryland State Bar Association president Raphael J. Santini speaks during a panel discussion for the Maryland State Bar Association’s Leadership Academy.
    Greenleigh, in Baltimore County, could offer a way out of the housing crisis
    Greenleigh’s residential housing success story could offer a blueprint for the rest of the state during a national housing crisis.
    Asa Johnson Sr. sits on the front steps of his home in the Greenleigh development in Middle River.
    One of downtown Baltimore’s biggest landlords hit with foreclosure
    A lender is foreclosing on a downtown apartment building owned by one Baltimore’s most successful developers of office-to-residential conversions.
    The 11-story Art Deco-style apartment building is the former home of the Baltimore Life Insurance Company. Photographed on Thursday, March 20, 2025.
    Chaos and fear: Inside Trump’s attack on environmental justice in the mid-Atlantic
    As the administration of President Donald Trump pursues a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the agency’s environmental justice division already has faced cuts — and things could get worse.
    WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 18: From left, U.S. Rep. Riley Moore (R., W.V.), Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R., W.V.), EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum celebrate after signing a Water Policy Announcement at the Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters on February 18, 2025 in Washington, D.C. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin made a water policy announcement and held a signing ceremony with members of the West Virginia Congressional Delegation.
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