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A report on women in the Maryland workforce found that they continue to trail men in labor force participation and that they face several hurdles to greater participation. It also said that recent federal job cuts likely had a disproportionate effect on Black women.
For the eighth straight year, Maryland scientists found well below average numbers of young rockfish in the Chesapeake Bay. This summer's numbers were the best since 2018, but the “young of the year” index of 5.5 was still well below the historical average of 10.8.
Ukrainian and Sudanese immigrants living in the United States with temporary protected status that was scheduled to end Monday, will retain their deportation protections and work authorizations for now, Homeland Security officials said over the weekend.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge from a group of Montgomery County parents who claim that the county's lottery system for admission to middle school magnet programs decreases Asian American students in the programs.
The number of teacher vacancies fell from 2,145 in the 2022-23 school year to roughly 572 for the current school year, state officials announced Monday, a 70% drop that was attributed to programs to expand recruitment and retention of teachers.
The late 1800s' railroad expansion consumed about $173 billion in today's dollars and created more than 2% of GDP; today's data center boom could consume $10 trillion in investment and account for nearly 4% of GDP, crowding out other job-creating industries.
In the last report before Election Day, Inflation grew to a 3.7% annual rate in September, up from 3.4% in August, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, drive by energy costs: Gas is now up 34% for the year, and fuel oil, which includes diesel, is up 72%.
Hate bias incidents fell slightly in the state of Maryland in 2025, according to a new state report, with racial bias against Black remaining the number one incident, followed by antisemitic bias, as anti-Latino incidents rose to become the third-highest.
While both men and women college athletes face online harassment related to sports betting, abuse of women athletes on social media also often targets appearance and gender, affecting their play and reducing their enjoyment of the sport, the women report.
WASHINGTON — A couple hundred people carrying decorated umbrellas walked from the former Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House to the U.S. Capitol lawn Saturday for a No Kings get-out-the-vote event in the nation’s capital. No Kings, a coalition that has drawn millions of Americans to protests three times…
Anger over the Trump administration's actions brought more than 100 Beltsville residents out on a chilly, overcast Saturday to protest in one of dozens of No Kings events scheduled around the state to urge people to get out and vote.
David Schuhlein will leave his role with the Office of the Senate President after five years of managing and coordinating the wide-ranging communication needs for Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City). Ferguson said he was “deeply grateful” for Schuhlein’s work as director of communications in a statement…
The Trump administration has officially filed a request to reconsider the construction permit it issued to an offshore wind project proposed off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland.
WASHINGTON — More than 100,000 Ukrainians and roughly 2,000 Sudanese immigrants are bracing for the possibility they’ll lose their humanitarian protections by Monday. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has not indicated if he will renew protections for Ukrainians, who first received Temporary Protected…
An NCAA survey of sports betting-related abuse of college athletes this year showed that the most-harassed college athletes play men’s basketball, with 46% of those players who took part in the survey saying they had been targeted by bettors, up from 36% last year.
WASHINGTON —Suddenly there’s hope for cutting the reams of red tape that can make getting new energy projects a seemingly endless slog. Top Republican and Democratic senators have unveiled a 417-page bill to overhaul the approval process, a pathway for what’s known as “permitting reform.” A debate is likely when…
The military is searching protected medical records to find transgender troops who have tried to continue serving amid the Trump administration’s ban on transgender Americans in uniform, multiple sources tell Federal News Network.
A study due Dec. 1 could address whether fossil fuel companies must pay for the effects of climate change, but the state must proceed cautiously, writes Mary D. Kane, who says that policy's effectiveness, and its cost to residents and businesses, must be front of mind.
The board overseeing the state’s Blueprint education reform plan wants to pause expert review teams visiting schools through fiscal year 2029, and instead allocate funding toward coaching teachers. That decision was the only recommendation that came out of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future Accountability and…
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) is asking state officials to take a closer look at sexual assault policies on college campuses in the state.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Thursday announced that the execution of a man convicted of the Fort Hood shooting will not be livestreamed, a reversal after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week that Nidal Hasan’s death by firing squad would be public. “I think streaming the execution for all to see might…
Maryland is one of a dozen state to approve a law in recent months to ease the way for homeowners to install small, cheap panels that can be hung from a balcony or porch and plugged into a standard wall outlet to generate power. But there are still hurdles.
Educating thousands of college athletes to the risks posed by irate gamblers is a top priority for the NCAA, with lectures, training and a website and video directing players to mental health assistance. But getting athletes to buy in can also be an uphill battle.
Immigrant arrests soared this summer to the highest levels since President Donald Trump returned to office, driven largely by a surge in federal-local cooperation under 287(g) agreements -- at the same time that Maryland prohibited the agreements.
WASHINGTON — The No Kings movement that has brought millions to the streets across the United States three times since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term is staging its next event at the polls. Organizers across hundreds of advocacy groups will pull together thousands of events nationwide Saturday to…
Gov. Wes Moore offered his “public and loud” support for proposed legislation that would allow the state to more quickly reduce the price of some expensive drugs for non-Medicare recipients by piggybacking on the federally negotiated price limits under Medicare. And at a press conference Wednesday announcing the…
A double-sided monument sharing quotes and photos of civil rights activist Malcolm X was unveiled Wednesday at the Michael E. Busch Annapolis Library. More than 100 people came for the unveiling and to hear from various federal, state and local officials. Malcolm X, who died at the age of 39 in 1965, had no direct
The U.S. Department of Justice is demanding California not count ballots from voters it says are suspected noncitizens, a move by the Trump administration to apply last-minute pressure as voting begins in the midterm elections. The Justice Department on Tuesday gave California election officials 48 hours to remove…
WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration announced on Wednesday that recipients will receive a 3.6% increase in benefits in 2027. The cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, will begin for 72 million Social Security beneficiaries in January. It will apply for Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, recipients…
The Department of Homeland Security obtained tens of millions of unspecified records in a sweeping nationwide effort to find voter fraud, internal reports show, and weighed using undercover agents to investigate voter registration efforts by nonprofit groups.
Workers don't truly have a seat at the table if they don't have an exit from the room, writes Tim Wright, and public sector workers in Maryland don't have that exit because they don't have the right to strike. That needs to change if we value their work, he says,
The electricity grid operator for a broad swath of the mid-Atlantic and Midwest warned this week that warm weather and maintenance outages could push the system close to its limits. PJM Interconnection alerted power plant owners and electric utilities Monday of the need to take steps to avoid rolling blackouts as the…
As the nation’s physician shortage worsens, some fear the Trump administration’s immigration policies will dissuade or prevent doctors who earned their medical degrees in foreign countries from practicing in the United States. Among all U.S. doctors, an estimated one quarter were educated abroad. But they make up an…
The Chesapeake Bay earned a C+ on the annual report card that calculates improvements or losses in key indicators of health and conditions in the estuary and surrounding areas. This is the highest the Bay has ever scored since the record-keeping began in 2006. At the announcement in Woodbridge, Virginia, on Tuesday…
States have made several efforts to curb gambling-related harassment of college athletes, from banning all college prop bets to restricting them to certain areas to banning abusive gamblers, but one state gaming official doubts the work "will ever be done.
CAMBRIDGE, MD. — The debate between U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, the Republican incumbent of Maryland’s 1st District, and Dan Schwartz, the Democrat trying to unseat him, was frequently interrupted Tuesday night by outbursts from the audience. More than 150 Eastern Shore residents were gathered in Cambridge to hear the…
National press freedom groups are condemning a practice used by Gov. Wes Moore’s (D) administration in response to inquiries from Sinclair and Baltimore Sun journalists.
Three weeks before Election Day, the Trump administration’s sprawling project to send sensitive personal information on millions of voters to the Department of Homeland Security has been declared illegal by a federal judge. The blistering court decision comes after the Department of Justice pressured or sued states…
Gov. Wes Moore issued a directive Tuesday for the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services to immediately implement a pilot program for youth-involved car thefts in Baltimore City and Montgomery County, areas that have had an increase in motor vehicle thefts in the past year. Moore’s directive, which will remain in…
Harassment of college athletes is one reason 15 states with legalized sports gambling, including Maryland, ban wagers on individual college players. But a loophole in how fantasy sports are regulated means those restrictions don't always apply.
He's outnumbered in voter registration, outraised in campaign funds and is in a low-key race against an incumbent with decades of name recognition, but GOP attorney general nominee Jim Rutledge still sees a path to victory in his bid to unseat Anthony Brown (D).
Maryland farmers can use red-dyed diesel in their on-rad trucks for the first time after an order from Gov. Wes Moore (D).
The Trump administration’s order to allow import of Russian diesel violates a 2022 law banning Russian energy imports while the country’s war with Ukraine is ongoing, according to a bipartisan group of U.S. senators. Following an Oct. 9 call between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the U.S…
In the course of a single election cycle, the backlash against data centers has grown from an issue at local planning commission and city council meetings to become a flashpoint in state and federal races across the country.
As legalized sports betting has grown, so have bets on individual player performance rather than final scores. "Prop bets" have surged especially in college sports, shifting the focus to individual players who are increasingly targets for abuse by aggrieved bettors.
Schools are rightly working to fix chronic absenteeism, but much of the focus is on higher grades and ignores kindergarten, the grade with the most absences before high school. Getting those kids in school deserves at least as much focus, writes Kalman Hettleman.
A recent court ruling may have saved states from "potentially ruinous financial penalties" related to changes in SNAP rules, but advocates worry that thousands of Maryland families may still lose coverage as they try to navigate the changes.
The Transportation Security Administration has scrapped the Gold+ concept for privatizing some security operations, but is still exploring how to expand privatized airport screening, agency leaders said recently.
Household water bills rose an average of 62% from 2015 to 2025, faster than the inflation rate and more than twice the rise in grocery prices, a new analysis shows. It rose 19% faster than household incomes on average -- but twice as fast as incomes in Maryland.
With Maryland’s advance voter registration deadline approaching Tuesday, student organizations on college campuses across the state are working to get more young people registered and prepared to cast their ballots.
Traditional health insurance pressures doctors to work at volume, or if they add layers of bureaucracy that independent physicians can't easily handle, writes Dimitri Coupet, who says it's time to consider formalizing a direct payment of care model.
Hurricane Isaias made landfall Friday night in Florida, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers across a large the Southeast and causing at least four deaths. Remnants of the storm were expected to bring heavy rains to Maryland on Sunday.
State officials are taking another close look at how Maryland’s nonprofit hospitals store billions of dollars in “captive insurance” companies domiciled in the Cayman Islands to determine if those funds should be subject to state taxes.
Maryland law has very specific rules for removing books from school library shelves, but that doesn't always stop a determined local school board, writes Sonia Kumar, which is why she says the fight against book banning begins with voting for our school boards.
The signs, mailers and texts promise cash, quick sales and a seamless way to unload unwanted homes. But advocates say the business of buying homes for cash can confuse vulnerable homeowners and rob them of equity. And many states are cracking down.
Prediction markets have emerged as a flashpoint in state and federal relations, as a host of states, including Maryland, struggle with the Trump administration over who regulates the platforms and whether state laws restricting gambling on elections apply to them.
Measles cases for the calendar year surpassed 4,000 for the first time in decades, with as many as five deaths in Pennsylvania, as the federal government steps in with financial help for states but also fans vaccination fears and skepticism.
The annual Maryland heat season ended with record-breaking heat-related illnesses and deaths: The 61 fatalities shattered the 2012 record of 42 deaths, and 1,657 emergency calls topped last year's 1,634, the previous record. Health experts point to climate change.
A growing number of voters are taking their anger about affordability to the polls this midterm election and blaming President Donald Trump’s tariffs as a culprit for rising expenses, polls show. In Maryland, tariffs cost the average households another $2,732.
A perfect storm of harsh immigration enforcement, aging journeymen and a data center building boom is wreaking havoc on the nation’s supply of skilled trade workers, leaving businesses scrambling for plumbers, electricians, carpenters and others in short supply.
In a message to employees this week, the Social Security Administration said alternative work scheduling will end starting Nov. 16 and all employees will transition to a standard five-day workweek.
Months after reaching a record settlement over mud pollution from a Harford County housing project, state environmental regulators have fined the developer another $24,000 for continuing to foul a Gunpowder River tributary.
Maryland lawmakers are learning how hard it is to control utility rates, writes Randy Altschuler, who says they should instead focus on increasing power generation in the state, and insist that funds intended for energy programs be spent on energy programs.
Maryland People's Counsel David Lapp, the state’s ratepayer advocate in utility regulatory cases, will have to reapply for his job after Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown posted the position. Brown says it's nothing personal just the recommended process.
State regulators issued $125,150 in civil penalties to state, county and local governments over an eight-month period for failing to adhere to workplace safety requirements, lawmakers were told Wednesday.
A majority of Maryland voters are opposed to building data centers in the state and they have a dim view of artificial intelligence, which they believe will have a negative impact on society, a new poll shows.
Every child in the U.S. with a valid Social Security number is now enrolled in a tax-advantaged investment account, called a “Trump Account,” President Donald Trump said Wednesday, and parents of about 8 million children have opened accounts for their kids.
Leading immigration advocates and experts sounded the alarm Wednesday on the Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to undo state laws, including laws in Maryland, that allow some immigrants to pay in-state college tuition in the states where they reside.
The Maryland Board of Public Works Wednesday approved a $50,000 contract to hire a powerhouse outside law firm to defend Gov. Wes Moore (D) against a defamation lawsuit filed by the owner of the Baltimore Sun.
US Wind, the company behind a proposed offshore wind farm off the coast of Ocean City, no longer plans to develop components for wind turbines at Sparrows Point — at least not for now — turning its lease over to Anduril Industries to build a shipyard there.
President Donald Trump wants to curtail mail ballots, but with Republicans falling behind in the polls, the president is now urging his supporters to vote in the midterm elections any way they can, including by mail.
After a string of suicide deaths at Fort Meade this summer, Rep. Sarah Elfreth (D-3rd) is pushing for language in the must-pass defense policy bill to require that the Pentagon collect data on civilian suicides, as it already does for uniformed troops and their families.
President Donald Trump joined state and local leaders Tuesday to welcome a huge new shipyard that will bring billions of dollars of investment and thousands of jobs to Sparrows Point in Baltimore County.
Gov. Wes Moore planned to be on hand for Tuesday's announcement of a massive economic development project at Sparrows Point, but said he was uninvited by the White House after President Donald Trump said he was coming, the latest spat between the two.
A proposed amendment to the Maryland Constitution that would change the way Maryland draws congressional districts faces stiff voter opposition, a new poll shows. It's the latest sign of trouble for the ballot question backed by Democratic leaders.
Gov. Wes Moore (D) and his Republican challenger Dan Cox each presented their vision of a state under their leadership in an hour-long debate Tuesday that quickly showcased the expected lines of attack and the animosity between the two candidates.
A poll released Tuesday by the Institute of Politics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, finds Gov. Wes Moore (D) with a comfortable lead over Republican challenger Dan Cox, with Moore getting 51% of the vote to Cox's 24% in their rematch.
Any number of problems -- an unexpected expense, loss of transportation, a family fight -- can tip a young person over into homelessness, write Larry Cohen and Tom Coale, but minimal assistance they go into a shelter can help them avoid homelessness.
The Maryland Supreme Court ordered the immediate removal Monday of Anne Arundel County Orphans' Court Chief Judge Vickie Gipson for what it called "egregious ... misconduct" in office, just months after removing another judge on the same court.
The 16-mile, 21-stop Purple Line continues moving closer to becoming a fully operational light rail line by the end of 2027, but state transportation officials told a Montgomery County Council committee that the actual opening date remains “dynamic.”
The Sphere concert and entertainment venue planned for National Harbor is another step closer to reality after an vote Monday by the Prince George’s County Council, but unions looking to secure agreements on construction of the project have been left out.
Maryland regulators are concerned about a rate-setting practice that let electric utilities project future spending and ask that customers' rates be set accordingly. But while they said the pilot program had failed, they aren’t ready to abandon it altogether.
The Environmental Protection Agency said Friday it will disburse $37 million to localities to aid Chesapeake Bay pollution reduction and clean-up efforts, with another $53 million in matching funds for 83 projects across the watershed, 32 of them in Maryland.
There are four candidates on the ballot for governor this fall but only two will be on stage for Tuesday's debate. To Andy Ellis and Cathy White, the Green and Working Class Party nominees, that doesn't seem right, but MPT says they don't meet criteria to be on stage.
An Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission vote in November on whether menhaden are overharvested in the Chesapeake Bay will be closely watched by workers who pursue the fish now, and worry the cuts could cost them their jobs.
A month from Election Day, President Donald Trump’s long-running pressure campaign over elections is approaching a decisive moment as he seeks to bend the U.S. election system to his will, and states are fighting back or prepping their responses.
As agencies walk back the Trump administration’s controversial "loyalty" essay question from federal job postings, the Office of Personnel Management is telling them to replace it with a new prompt, asking about carrying out a policy the applicant disagreed with.
President Donald Trump is scheduled to kick off a month-long blitz of campaign stops in advance of the midterm elections with a Thursday rally in deep-red Oklahoma before heading to other states with strong Republican leanings.
OK, "Eric's ID Law" is popular, but you've arrived when Faith Evans and P-Funk's George Clinton are in your corner, Gov. Wes Moore names enough judges to form a softball team and Montgomery County seeks police advisory panel members, in political notes.
State officials hailed the news that the troubled Curtis Bay Energy facility will stop burning medical waste at its South Baltimore site in order to settle a Maryland Department of the Environment lawsuit charging the company with repeated air pollution violations.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-8th) is calling for a federal investigation of taxpayer-funded television spots that heavily promote President Donald Trump, which are airing just weeks before the midterm elections.
Jobs across the United States rose by 29,000 in September, a disappointing result as recent growth was also revised down in Friday’s monthly jobs report, the last one before midterm elections. September growth was a large dip from a strong August number that was revised down from 162,000 to 133,000 in the new report…
A bipartisan group of Maryland legislators is pushing for fishery managers to institute further restrictions on the harvest of Atlantic menhaden, a small fish that sits at the base of the Chesapeake Bay food chain.
Gov. Wes Moore continued a statewide push against administrative barriers to new housing development Thursday, signing executive orders to identify administrative bottlenecks that delay project permit approvals and to speed construction of those units.
While the Public Service Commission denied half of Pepco’s recent rate increase, it is sending the wrong message by still granting the utility a $50.9 million rate increase at a time when people are struggling just to get by, writes the Rev. Catherine Manhardt.
It took more than a decade to get this far, but lawmakers and advocates who gathered Thursday at the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center to celebrate the new youth sentencing act were reminded that they are not finished yet.
Leaders throughout the region overseen by power grid operator PJM Interconnection have long called for states to have a greater voice in grid decision-making, but governance reforms advanced this week by PJM left advocates feeling disappointed.
The Trump administration wasted no time challenging Maryland's new law that prohibits masks on police, including immigration officers, suing the state the same day the law took effect. It also sued Montgomery and Prince George's counties over similar laws.
A D.C. Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors cannot, for a second time, charge former Olympic canoeist David Hearn, a Montgomery County resident, with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
The more than 370 bills that became law Thursday are the usual grab bag of serious and silly, of technical tweaks, of answers to sweeping national issues and personal responses to situations that took young lives in Maryland. Many were years in the making.