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The results are part of a new poll released Tuesday by the Institute of Politics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. That poll finds that Moore would pick up 51% of the vote while another 24% said they favor Republican Dan Cox.
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.
A federal grand jury indicted 10 noncitizens for unlawfully voting in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday, highlighting President Donald Trump's effort to keep election security a top issue before the November elections.
Treatments for cancer, diabetes and other conditions could be disrupted for up to 4,500 Maryland residents who will no longer qualify for Medicaid under a federal rule that takes effect Thursday that will disqualify people for Medicaid based on immigration status.
A fifth measles-related death was reported in Pennsylvania, which remains one of the nation's hot spots for outbreaks of the virus, with 943 cases reported across the state this year. Maryland has reported 51 confirmed cases so far this year, but no deaths.
Under a law that takes effect Thursday, Marylanders who register their cars in other states will have 60 days to register them in Maryland or face fines and other possible penalties, although state officials said they hope drivers will take advantage of the grace period.
Constellation, the owner of Maryland’s Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant, said Wednesday it plans to move forward with massive upgrades at the facility after signing a 20-year power purchase deal with data center operator Amazon.
They acknowledged the looming budget shortfall, and said there have been challenges implementing the Blueprint for Maryland's Future, but the main theme of a meeting Tuesday on the state's sweeping education reform plan was plain: Don't cut it.
Maryland is one of 10 states where high housing costs contribute the most to the state’s poverty level, according to a new report by the Pew Charitable Trusts, that attributes as much as 21% of Maryland's poverty to its above-average housing costs.
he U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted, for now, the Trump administration’s request that it be allowed to continue rapid third-country deportation of immigrants to countries not their own.
Maryland school officials Tuesday celebrated a sharp drop in chronic absenteeism since the pandemic, despite uneven results across school districts and not reaching their goal of cutting post-pandemic rates in half.
The U.S. Department of Education’s suspension of a comprehensive monitoring process puts billions of K-12 dollars at heightened risk of undetected waste, fraud and abuse, says a new audit, that also raised concerns about the reliability of federal absenteeism data.
Challenges for Maryland's electricity markets are many -- rising prices, surging demand, stalled projects -- but the answer is readily available in the form of grid-connected battery storage, writes Bruce Daggy, who said it works in other states and can work here.
Both Maryland senators voted against a bill Monday to overhaul the college sports landscape in the face of student payments and transfers. The bipartisan bill passed the Senate easily; critics said it does not do enough to protect student athletes' labor rights.
Some money may be coming your way from your electric company -- one day -- Frederick County Executive Jessica Fitzwater wants to hear from you and Tom Coale and Scott Peterson land new gigs, in political notes.
A nearly yearlong battle over a lucrative lottery contract has landed the state's gaming agency in hot water with the Maryland Board of Contract Appeals, which sanctioned the agency last week for dragging its feet on demands to produce documents.
Del. Carolyn J.B. Howard, a longtime Prince George's County delegate, died Sept. 19 at age 87. Her former colleagues remembered Howard as an even-keeled lawmaker and a thoughtful mentor.
The Trump administration has again infuriated lawmakers from both parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel $810 million in funding previously approved by Congress for refugee assistance, climate change and minority business development.
Democratic and Republican governors vowed to more aggressively push back on federal overreach, regardless of which party runs Washington, after the National Governors Association to say governors must defend state sovereignty against federal incursion.
Crews begin inspecting the 10 miles of Ocean City beach Monday for storm damage, including erosion, after a nor'easter that lashed the coast over the weekend, causing flooded streets and leading to the cancellation of a weekend music festival.
Since 2004, Maryland's “flush tax” has raised $2.3 billion for wastewater treatment plant upgrades that have kept hundreds of millions of pounds of nutrients out of the Bay. It could decrease in 2030, but advocates say sewage treatment plants still need the help.
Maryland’s energy companies are getting a $250 million sales tax refund after a Supreme Court of Maryland ruling in their favor, the state comptroller said, urging them to give the “windfall” to their customers.
The escalating trade war between the United States and Canada also means an escalating trade war with one of Maryland’s biggest trading partners, with the state sending $2.2 billion in goods north in 2025 and importing $2.8 billion that year.
With limited time to act and no guarantee of success, Democrats are eyeing government spending negotiations as their best shot at still getting a 2027 federal pay raise across the finish line after the Trump administration denied raises to most civilian federal workers.
The U.S. Department of Energy is poised to spend nearly $2 billion to help fund 31 grid improvement projects in 26 states that aim to wring more capacity out of existing power lines to meet surging electricity demand, largely from AI data centers,
Despite what critics say, the Prescription Drug Affordability Board has not only made Maryland a leader in the fight for affordable drugs, writes Vincent DeMarco, it will save millions for state and local governments -- and could save Marylanders tens of millions.
Government auditors said the Department of Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration detention, including warehouse purchases strongly opposed in numerous U.S. communities.
Marylanders who buy individual healthcare plans on the state's insurance marketplace will see a second year of double-digit increases to their premiums, after state insurance officials approved a 14.6% average premium rate increase across plans in 2027.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger last week unveiled a package aimed at reining in the data center industry in the commonwealth, calling for tighter environmental regulations and for the industry to pick up more of the energy costs, among other proposals.
Democratic lawmakers, labor union officials and nonprofit leaders rallied in Baltimore Friday to drum up support for ballot Question 3, the proposed constitutional amendment that would remove state standards for drawing congressional districts.
Two and a half years after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, members of Maryland’s congressional delegation are vowing to keep pursuing investments into the Port of Baltimore.
The Trump administration Thursday made an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to allow for rapid third-country deportations of noncitizens to continue, after an appeals court blocked the policy last week.
The board overseeing implementation of Maryland's sweeping education reform plan could propose some changes to the plan, as another looming budget shortfall makes it a likely target for cuts to some lawmakers next year.
The Board of Revenue Estimates added $320 million to its revenues forecast from March, but the report also highlighted concerns about growing inflation and a sharp drop in tax withholdings in the first half of the coming year compared to a year earlier.
One in four voters in a poll released by Fight Back Maryland were undecided when it came to approving the constitutional amendment that would remove state standards for drawing congressional districts. The reason may be the language of the amendment itself.
Four Senate Republicans joined Democrats to vote for a War Powers resolution reining in President Donald Trump’s conflict in Iran, but it still was not enough to pass the measure, which failed Thursday on a 49-50 vote.
Voter information guides in 11 of Montgomery County's 257 precincts will be reprinted and mailed out by next week to voters in the affected precincts, after voters reported errors regarding polling places and party affiliation information in the first batch.
The rains that threatened the festivities had stopped by noon and hundreds showed up Wednesday on a brisk and windy first day of fall for the J. Millard Tawes Crab and Clam Bake in Crisfield, an annual pilgrimage for campaigns and candidates.
Questions about labor protections, traffic and taxpayer costs filled a packed hearing Tuesday night in Largo, as the Prince George’s County Council heard from the public about the proposed Sphere at National Harbor.
Almost 40,000 Marylanders lost access to food assistance over the past year, just some of the tens of thousands of Americans who continue to lose access to SNAP benefits each month, even as Congress debates slowing down major cuts to federal food stamps.
Concerned about conditions in federal immigrant detention facilities but often barred from entering, some states are fighting to enforce health and safety standards at the sites, noting that federal use of private contractors make the sites subject to state rules.
The Defense Health Agency last week rolled out the clinical guidelines military medical providers will use to begin screening men over 30 for low testosterone each year, part of Secretary Pete Hegseth's promise of a "High T Department of War."
Gov. Wes Moore is creating a state task force to examine new data center proposals and advise local jurisdictions considering the project whether they meet state standards, but he insisted that final say on data center projects will still rests with local governments,
State officials, University of Maryland leaders and quantum research representatives celebrated the opening of the Microsoft Quantum Research Center in the university’s Discovery District Tuesday.
A New Hampshire federal judge seemed skeptical Tuesday that a civil rights group could continue with a challenge to President Donald Trump’s second attempt to redefine the constitutional right to birthright citizenship, suggesting a new lawsuit might be needed.
The Office of Inspector General for Health did almost 1,400 audits and investigations over the last four years and found more than $42 million in improper or unrecovered payments -- but those reports have only recently been posted for public review.
An eight-state coalition filed lawsuits Tuesday challenging the Trump administration’s payments to private companies to cancel offshore wind leases, escalating an ongoing legal battle over the government spending billions of dollars to block wind projects.
A medical examiner ruled a man found hanging from a tree Sunday in Upper Marlboro died by suicide, Prince George’s County officials said Monday, but the symbolism behind the death left emotions raw as county leaders tried to quash lynching speculation.
Roughly 4 in 10 likely voters say they oppose Question 3, the proposed Maryland constitutional amendment that would change the way state officials redraw congressional districts, according to a poll released Tuesday by a group opposing the measure.
The Air Force and Space Force plan to rehire for thousands of civilian jobs in critical national security fields after acknowledging that they cut staff below “established requirements” in 2026.
Medicaid enrollees from five states and leading medical organizations filed suit Friday challenging new Medicaid work and reporting requirements that critics said could cause millions of current recipients to lose their benefits.
Seven federally recognized Native American tribes are ending their bid to formally join the Chesapeake Bay cleanup, saying they have been disappointed by the response from Bay Program leaders.
The Justice Department is asking a federal judge in Maryland for summary judgment in its lawsuit challenging a 2011 state law that provides in-state tuition and other education-related assistance to undocumented immigrants living in the state.
Walter Boynton, one of the Chesapeake Bay’s preeminent scientists and communicators, died Sept. 14 after a long illness, leaving a legacy of more than 50 years of pioneering research and advocacy for his adopted watershed. He was 79.
Thousands of Maryland seniors paying for long-term health care could see their annual premiums double, or triple, over the next several years if state officials approve the steep increases requested by four Maryland insurance companies last week.
Four in 10 pediatricians reported kids in immigrant families are avoiding coming in for healthcare out of concerns around immigration status, according to a new survey published Tuesday.
The Trump administration wants localities to prioritize "treatment-first" policies, such as sober living, cooperation with law enforcement and more temporary housing, a reversal from a decade-long federal approach known as "housing first."
Osprey breeding continues to falter around the Chesapeake Bay, a new survey has found, with the meager hatching and survival of chicks this year well below what is needed to maintain the population.
Gov. Wes Moore has given mixed signals on the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit, but the state has to opt in if it wants to take advantage, and it should, writes Jorge Elorza, who says that doing otherwise is just leaving money on the table that could help schoolkids.
Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich asked Police Chief Marc Yamada to resign after the county’s Office of the Inspector General released a report Friday detailing multiple accounts of misconduct by someone identified only as a police executive.
Civil rights icon Andrew Young was welcomed as a "legend" Friday at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation conference, for his work passing the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act -- landmark legislation that is increasingly under attack in recent years.
Reining in data centers is the rare issued backed by the GOP, Democrats and many voters, and the House recently passed a bill to do just that. But critics say there's much more to be done, and any bill has to get past President Donald Trump, a vocal center supporter.
There have been fewer than 20 Black astronauts in NASA history, but two of them were on a Washington stage Friday for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation conference, touting space exploration and encouraging Black youth to think about careers in space.
A federal appeals court Friday struck down the Trump administration’s policy to quickly send noncitizens to countries they are not from, finding that immigrants must have an opportunity to challenge such third-country removals if they fear for their safety.
Political appointees in the second Trump administration are leaving in record numbers, and often after short tenures. More than 900 appointees who did not require Senate confirmation left within the first 18 months of the administration, a new report shows.
Gov. Wes Moore said he believes Marylanders will “overwhelmingly" support Question 3 when they go to the polls in November, the proposed constitutional question on the ballot this fall that would change the way congressional districts are drawn.
Voting rights groups and Democratic officials are looking to defend against what they see as possible election interference from the Trump administration ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, now that they’ve won a major battle over mail ballots.
Voters are much more likely to support U.S. Senate candidates this fall who have a plan to avoid an automatic cut to Social Security benefits in 2032, according to a poll released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Just months after federal officials joined Chesapeake Bay states to renew their pledge to restore the nation's largest estuary, President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded an Obama-era executive order that called for federal leadership in the effort.
Changes proposed in the Blueprint for Maryland's Future, to shift Community Schools' emphasis to investments that support reading and math, is a crucial change, write Trish Brennan-Gac and Clarence Crawford, that needs support from parents and lawmakers.
Congressional representatives implored Black citizens to vote this fall, saying during a two-hour- plus town hall at the Congressional Black Caucus’s annual legislative conference Thursday that the fate of "Black America" hangs in the balance.
Maryland health officials are warning that people who visited several locations in Ocean City earlier this month may have been exposed to measles, after an out-of-state resident who was infected with the virus visited the resort town while still contagious.
With “the crown jewel” of civil rights legislation gutted by the U.S. Supreme Court, and possibly the seats of 20 Black members of Congress at stake in November, voting rights advocates on Wednesday called for a makeover of the nation’s highest court.
State officials put a best hoof forward on behalf of the horse racing industry Wednesday, telling a House committee they are confident that efforts to prop up and preserve the industry will not be in vain, despite ongoing questions and repeated state funding.
Developers say that having to navigate the “complex web” of federal, state and local regulations contributes to the rising cost of housing and rent, which winds up pricing more and more Marylanders out of housing options. And state officials largely agree.
A federal district judge hit the brakes on sweeping Agriculture Department reorganization measures that would have moved half the department's Washington-area workers to sites around the county, issuing a temporary stay Monday amid ongoing litigation.
Even if new power plants are built over the next 15 years, as data center projects come online, the regional electricity grid would fall short of demands six times per decade on average for Pennsylvania and the PJM regional grid, according to a new report.
The best way to mark Constitution Day, this Thursday, is to fight the influence of money and foreign influence in our politics through active civic participation, writes Mike Pellittiere, who particularly calls on his fellow veterans to step up.