The chips resemble the lead paint flakes that fell in 2022 from Baltimore’s TV Tower. City officials do not believe they contain lead, but MDE is now testing them.

Scott Plank’s generosity to Democratic electeds – including $20,000 to the party’s Senate caucus committee – came ahead of the Baltimore Board of Estimates’ approval yesterday of a $17.9 million lease ...

Baltimore Brew is a daily online journal featuring independent reporting and informed commentary about greater Baltimore.

Baltimore Brew is a daily online journal featuring independent reporting and informed commentary about greater Baltimore.

Building renovations, not recent public controversies, are the grounds for the cancellation of public testimony, council chair says.

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.” ...

Mayor Brandon Scott and his law department are making bogus claims to deny Isabel Mercedes Cumming access to records needed for her watchdog investigations. [OP-ED] ...

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 Brew is a daily online journal featuring independent reporting and informed commentary about greater Baltimore.

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.

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 ...