Digital license plates could be coming to Maryland. Twenty Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration vehicles and two Maryland Transportation Authority vehicles will be outfitted with license plate-sized, LTE-connected, electronic displays from the Silicon Valley-based tech firm Reviver under a two-year...
After months of unexplained delays, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan stepped down Tuesday before his formal nomination ever went to the Senate, citing a “painful” family situation that would hurt his children and reopen “wounds we have worked years to heal.” President Donald Trump announced...
The Maryland Jockey Club is asking racing regulators to approve $4.4 million in state subsidies entirely for renovations that the company made to its Laurel Park racetrack, even though crumbling conditions at Pimlico Race Course forced the closure of nearly 7,000 unstable seats for the Preakness...
The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear Baltimore County’s case in a years-long dispute over employee pensions, but the legal conflict is far from being resolved. The nation’s highest court on Monday denied the county’s petition to review a 2018 appeals court decision that the county must reimburse workers...
It can be debated whether Brandon Hyde’s hometown of Santa Rosa is actually part of the Bay Area, but he’ll be the first to tell you that the origins of his lifelong love of baseball are rooted in Oakland and San Francisco. The first-year major league manager regaled the local media before Monday...
When I got to the part about Wells Fargo in “Broken Bargain,” Kathleen Day’s excellent book on American financial institutions and the disasters they have wrought, I had to ask: “How is this company still in business?” The country’s fourth-largest bank and its various entities engaged in a series...
Demolition seems to be Larry Hogan’s top priority when it comes to Baltimore; he gets a real kick out of it, too. The Maryland governor put on a hard hat the other day and got behind the controls of a CASE excavator to knock down an abandoned rowhouse. Not that there’s anything wrong with that....
In the interest of setting straight the record of Nancy Pelosi’s time in Baltimore, allow me to provide a brief follow-up to Sunday’s column about her family portrait and that white dress she wore for it. The speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives grew up in a Baltimore political family....
So, last Thursday morning I’m driving back into Baltimore on O’Donnell Street, having just attended the annual business showcase of the Dundalk Chamber of Commerce at the Best Western Plus. I’m westbound on O’Donnell. I pass Ponca Street, then Newkirk. I look to the left and suddenly I have a Shocking...
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Bank of America plans to offer some potential homebuyers in the Baltimore metro area up to $17,500 to pay up-front costs, which are often out-of-pocket and the biggest barrier to making a purchase. The Down Payment Grant Program will offer the money as part of the bank’s $5 billion pledge to help...
Few people can say they look forward to Monday, to putting the weekend behind them and getting back to work. Those who do must really love their jobs, adore their co-workers and admire their employers. It may be because their jobs offer purpose, flexibility, collaboration, respect, challenge and,...
Under Armour has hired a former Red Bull executive to head global sports marketing, the Baltimore-based sports apparel maker said Tuesday. Sean Eggert, who worked as vice president of sports marketing for the energy drink brand, will become Under Armour’s senior vice president of global sports...
An office building planned on Key Highway across from the Domino Sugar plant and its iconic glowing sign is moving ahead after negotiating changes with neighbors. The project had drawn opposition from the Locust Point community in South Baltimore, where development has boomed in recent years. But...
Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. said Monday he was unconcerned about the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra lockout affecting the Independence Day concert at Oregon Ridge Park on July 3. The county announced Monday that the 5,000 tickets for the event have already sold out and Olszewski...
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra made headlines this month after musicians, donors and members of the public learned the organization is in dire financial straits. Here’s what you need to know: Financial trouble The BSO was established in 1916 as a branch of the Baltimore municipal government. The...
Howard County beer fans who mourned the closing of T-Bonz Grille & Pub last November can now celebrate the planned arrival of HoCo Brew Hive in the same building this summer. Operating owner Joshua Butts told The Baltimore Sun that he came aboard after being approached by Scott Sciandra, his partner...
Marshall Weston describes the Maryland Foodie Fest as a food lover’s dream. Restaurants, food trucks, breweries and distilleries will pack Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen on June 22, offering samples of their best dishes and drinks, said Weston, president and CEO of the Restaurant Association of Maryland,...
Gloria Vanderbilt, the intrepid heiress, artist and romantic who began her extraordinary life as the "poor little rich girl" of the Great Depression, survived family tragedy and multiple marriages and reigned during the 1970s and '80s as a designer jeans pioneer, died Monday at the age of 95. Vanderbilt...
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Laura Embrey enjoyed something of a family reunion in Philadelphia last week, involving her brother and her son, the spirit of her father and a 990-foot steamship that was once the pride of the Atlantic but has been out of service for half-a-century. The 54-year-old Baltimore native, now living...
When Mimi Demissew joined the then-named GLCCB in 2017 and saw a fractured organization with lagging attendance at its marquee Baltimore Pride Festival and a lack of ethnic and gender diversity, she knew that increasing representation was key. Two years later, the organization has a surplus, more...
It’s been a month since Baltimore City Council President Brandon Scott established a special committee focused on cybersecurity and emergency preparedness as City Hall recovers from a ransomware attack that still cripples several city payment functions. One of the committee’s co-chairmen, Councilman...
Four top executives at the University of Maryland Medical System have resigned amid investigations into accusations of self-dealing among the hospital network’s board members, the system announced Thursday. Those resigning are Megan Arthur, the system’s primary lawyer; Jerry Wollman, the chief...
The University of Maryland Medical System, under fire for lucrative no-bid contracts with some of its board members, is earning above-average profits even as it seeks state approval to charge some patients more, according to an analysis by The Baltimore Sun. The system’s profitability raises questions...