State government

Wes Moore is good at making pithy statements, and this one traveled far in the political news media, which is looking for someone to speak for the 48.36% of the nation's voters who didn’t want Donald Trump returned to the White House. Protest too much, Mr. Governor?

“The anger was enormous — the sense of betrayal,” said Bill Barry, who was the director of labor studies at the Community College of Baltimore County Dundalk.

The most important thing to understand about electricity in Maryland may be that everyone wants more of it. Or maybe the most important thing is that few people want to live near it. Not power plants. Not power lines. Not solar or wind farms. We’re about to see if that's how people feel about batteries.

Gov. Wes Moore has promised $2 billion in budget cuts. We’ll find out where this week.

A proposal for a 75-cent retail delivery fee has some wondering who will end up paying: companies or customers?

The budget also predicted tuition increases at system campuses, though the Board of Regents has control of that.

The caucus already flagged one component of Gov. Wes Moore’s budget proposal — unveiled the day before — that gives them pause: freezing the amount of money going to community schools that serve high-need neighborhoods.

The governor has proposed scaling back and delaying key parts of Maryland’s education reform plan.

The changes would raise hundreds of millions of dollars for the state.

Just because Moore introduced the budget this way, it doesn’t mean it’s going to end up like this.

The attorney general’s office blasted the defendants as a ‘cartel.’

Under the proposal, the state would establish two new tax brackets for individuals earning more than $500,000 and $1 million while offering relief for others.

The state’s finalized six-year transportation spending plan includes previously deferred rehabilitation projects for the 32-year-old train line.

The seven members represent a fraction of House Republicans in a chamber where the Democrats hold a better than 2-to-1 majority.

Moore did not offer details of the tax hike, including who would pay more and by how much. But he said the increase would be coupled with tax cuts for two-thirds of Marylanders and a cut in the corporate tax rate.

A $27.5 million effort on quantum computing is part of the Democratic governor’s plans to spur more economic activity in the state, particularly in emerging industries.

Takeaways from The Baltimore Banner’s Inside the Legislative Session event in Annapolis.

Supporters are hopeful that any living descendants of Maryland’s witches will reach out.

The bill would create a new unit in the Maryland Department of Labor responsible for inspecting the safety protections for public workers while they do jobs, including those who perform their jobs outside of an office.

PHA Healthcare, a drug addiction treatment provider that enrolls hundreds of Medicaid patients in Maryland each year, has been ordered by the state health department to stop providing services to patients.