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Between the continuing chaos in Minneapolis and ICE’s apparent plan to turn a Hagerstown warehouse into a detention center, they had plenty to protest today.

Baltimore City is destroying homeless encampments without ending the homelessness of their residents. These actions are inhumane and ineffective. Homelessness can only be ended through the provision ...

Examples of unacceptable actions taken or statements made by the current gubernatorial appointees to the Board of Liquor License Commissioners for Baltimore City [A document provided by the CLC to Sen ...

Rising from the Council to a seat on the Board of Estimates yields a flood of campaign cash. What went to whom in 2025, from Alex Smith’s Atlas Restaurant Group to Johns Hopkins University.

Brew: Why are these buses so crowded and late and the # of them assigned to the 13 route apparently quite inadequate? Shepard: Every metro transit system experiences occasional overcrowding and/or ...

Reutter has been reporting and writing on Baltimore since 1970, when he started as a 19-year-old summer intern covering cops for The Evening Sun. He worked on a wide range of beats for the Sunpapers, ...

Former members have also popped up, wagging a finger at their successors for what they call “a sharp departure from the ethical standards they observed while serving on the council.” ...

On Saturday, the OIG was denied access to city records. Today the inspector general fired back, saying, “We basically cannot do our job.” UPDATED with mayor’s office reply.

If the salary increases recommended by the county’s Personnel and Salary Advisory Board are adopted, the annual pension of the sponsor of Bill 40-24, Councilman Wade Kach, would jump from $41,400 to ...