News in Baltimore
What Milwaukee can learn from Baltimore’s community policing plan
As Milwaukee develops a community policing plan, Baltimore offers lessons on what the approach can look like as well as where it could fall short.
Maryland Blueprint leaders to consider legislative recommendations for 2027 amid state budget crunch
The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future is halfway through its 10-year implementation schedule, overhauling the state’s education system to improve outcomes. While lawmakers will be tackling the program’s major fiscal implications this year, they will also be looking at suggested…
Utilities push back on new energy cost-saving measures in Maryland
This year’s Utility RELIEF Act promised a slew of changes and funding initiatives to help lower Marylanders’ utility bills, like temporarily reducing an energy surcharge come next year. But Maryland’s big four utility companies are still requesting rate increases and fighting one…
High schoolers flock to Construction Career Day amid looming Maryland labor crunch
Event at M&T Bank Stadiumbrings about 1,000 students together to explore jobs in the trades.
Maryland health insurance subsidies helped mitigate federal cuts but more revenue is needed
President Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill, changes to Medicaid and qualified health plans and Congress’s decision not to extend premium tax credits have pushed tens of thousands of Marylanders off their health insurance. Health officials are determining if and how they can fill in…
Maryland health officials are watching illegal markets as kratom products are restricted
Officials at the Rapid Analysis of Drugs are keeping an eye on if demand for the drug will emerge on the black market and the potential for other adulterants to be added to the drug. The state regulated kratom in 2024 and banned 7-OH in July. Kratom can still be bought, but only…
TPS terminations continue to impact Maryland’s immigrant community, El Salvador’s status in limbo
The Trump administration has ended immigration Temporary Protected Status for over a dozen countries, and now El Salvador’s status is uncertain. Immigration group We Are CASA is calling the terminations “the largest de-documentation effort in U.S. history.”
WCCS Radio
Published August 31MAN CHARGED IN STABBING SCHEDULED TO BE SENTENCED TODAY
A Baltimore man is scheduled to be sentenced today in connection with a stabbing in Indiana Borough in January. Court documents show 31-year-old Detro...
Queens Ledger
Published August 27JJ: “A Setting Not Fit For a Polar Bear”
New York New York By: John Jastremski Last week, I went down to Baltimore for the final 2 games of the Yankees Orioles series. Yes, it was hot. Yes, the Yankees found ways to win. There was a greater takeaway for me leaving Camden Yards in the wee hours of the morning on Friday.…
Decades-old, newly restored Smithsonian carousel reopens — to children’s delight
The carousel was first desegregated when part of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park outside Baltimore in 1963. It was moved to the National Mall after the park closed.