At the direction of a “former management employee,” the Baltimore Department of Social Services misused nearly $2 million intended for poor children and did not properly account for another $5.5 ...

If once you don’t succeed, double the asking price and apply under another mayor. This formula is proving a winner for a well-connected nonprofit that’s been snagging millions of public dollars – for ...

A bill to give government agencies greater power to deny public information requests – allowing agencies, for example, to ignore for an unspecified period of time all of the requests of individuals or ...

Controlling three of the five seats on the Board of Estimates, the mayor holds the cards over hundred of millions of dollars in city spending. Long criticized, the near supreme power of the purse ...

City dwellers who complain about losing parking spaces these days are urged to give up their car-centric ways and get in step with efforts to make urban areas denser, more transit oriented and more ...

Why do people choose to sleep outside or in vacant buildings rather than shelters in Baltimore? Unsafe and nasty conditions is a major reason, says a group of advocates, who surveyed 74 shelter ...

Living in West Baltimore’s Poppleton neighborhood has been heartbreaking for residents – the city taking their homes by eminent domain for a project that’s dragged on for a decade, spawning more ...

The Baltimore Sun has fired its editorial cartoonist KAL – the pen name for Kevin Kallaugher, a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize who joined the paper in 1988 – telling him his dismissal was a ...

After a lengthy investigation, Baltimore County’s Inspector General Kelly Madigan released a report with some startling findings: A longtime county official illegally waived millions of dollars in ...

Back in 2011 when Maryland classified trash incineration as “renewable energy” – elevating it to the same status as solar and wind and subsidizing it to the tune of millions of dollars per year – two ...

For the 12-year-old student at St. Francis of Assisi School, wearing a favorite old tee shirt with a gay pride message on “Dress Down Day” was nothing new. She had worn it before on relaxed-dress-code ...

Fred Shoken stood in the pouring rain outside the Hendler Creamery, poking his camera through the chain-link fence to capture shots of the imposing facade of the 131-year-old red-brick building. Each ...