By KIERSTEN HACKER, ANGELIQUE GINGRAS and TYRAH BURRIS Capital News Service ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Gov. Wes Moore and top lawmakers headed into the 2024 General Assembly session Wednesday with a looming budget deficit in mind, hoping to avoid tax hikes and dramatic cuts and focus, instead, on their important priorities. Moore and his fellow Democrats […]

Press Release – MD Attorney General – press@oag.state.md.us BALTIMORE, MD (January 12, 2024) – Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today joined a coalition of 12 Attorneys General in a letter encouraging the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to reschedule cannabis to Schedule III under the federal Controlled Substances Act in the interest of public […]

From Maryland Matters By Josh Kurtz October 20, 2023 It was early morning on a patio just outside the Conowingo Dam, and Mike Martinek was looking at hundreds of juvenile eels that had been suctioned from the Susquehanna River into a giant freshwater pool. Martinek, a fisheries biologist for an environmental consulting firm, and a couple […]

Hannah Norman, KFF Health News December 1, 2023 Bill Eisenman has always fished. “Growing up, we ate whatever we caught — catfish, carp, freshwater drum,” he said. “That was the only real source of fish in our diet as a family, and we ate a lot of it.” Today, a branch of the Rouge River […]

BY STEPH QUINN, Capital News Service  –  2 DAYS AGO SILVER SPRING, Md. — Lawmakers, clinicians and educators gathered Thursday for a ribbon-cutting celebration of Compass Health Center, which aims to provide timely mental health crisis care to adolescent and adult patients throughout Maryland, where emergency room wait times are the longest in the nation. Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Chair […]

BY TOMMY TUCKER, Capital News Service  –  3 DAYS AGO ANNAPOLIS, Md. – An audit released Friday found that the Maryland Board of Elections did not report for more than a year its findings that people voted or tried to vote more than once in the 2020 general election – well after the results were certified, according to The Office […]

By RYAN MERCADO Capital News Service WASHINGTON – Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley told senators Thursday that if he is confirmed as the new commissioner of the Social Security Administration, he would focus on improving service and boosting the morale of the sprawling agency. “We can and we must do better as a nation, and as […]

By LUCY HUBBARD Capital News Service ANNAPOLIS, Md. – It was late at night in November 2021, when Carl Wagner was driving down Central Avenue in Edgewater on his way home to Harwood in his Ford F-150. Suddenly a deer leaped a guardrail and darted in front of his truck. The buck was thrown into […]

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters Kalyn Belsha, Chalkbeat Sep 20, 4:17pm EDT Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to get essential education news delivered to your inbox. On a recent Friday at Gary Comer Middle School in Chicago, you had to squint to see signs of […]

By Maryland Department of Environment Voluntary water conservation measures recommended BALTIMORE (September 20, 2023) – The Maryland Department of the Environment today urged public water systems, citizens and businesses in parts of the state to continue voluntary water use restrictions as a drought watch issued earlier this summer has been upgraded to a warning. “Water […]