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Several labor leaders said it would be premature to endorse Biden’s approach before they can bargain with employers over how it will be implemented and how employees’ rights and privacy would be protected.
- U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg made his first visit to a U.S. port Thursday since taking office, touring the Port of Baltimore where he promoted President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package.
- In a wide-ranging question-and-answer published by The Baltimore Sun, Marilyn Mosby and her personal attorney address the scope of the federal tax investigation and offer their explanation of what led prosecutors to turn attention to her taxes in the first place.
- Monica Manthey, a native of Seattle who moved to Annapolis in 2019, will likely face Alderman Brooks Schandelmeier, D-Ward 5, in the Nov. 2 general election.
- Annapolis voters will choose a mayor and City Council in November.
- Rockford Toews, the owner of Back Creek Books on Main Street who previously ran for the seat in 2009, has filed once again.
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Q&A: Baltimore’s Marilyn Mosby and attorney on the criminal tax investigation of her and her husband
A question and answer with Marilyn Mosby and her attorney on the criminal tax investigation - Amid a national debate over critical race theory and standards for teaching history in K-12 public schools, Carroll and Harford county school boards have said recently that they want “politically neutral” curriculum.
- Loans and small grants are available now to more businesses than ever through the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, SBA officials say. But because of processing backlogs, efforts to prevent fraud and lack of awareness about the program, funds have been slow to reach businesses when they say they need it most.
- U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will visit the Port of Baltimore on Thursday to tout the benefits of President Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure deal.
- On Wednesday Councilperson Sarah Lacey, D-District 1, filed to represent Legislative District 32 in the State Senate, challenging incumbent Pam Beidle, who said she plans to file in August for the 2022 election.
- Baltimore’s spending board agreed to settle an employment discrimination lawsuit Wednesday for $158,298 after officials admitted employees broke city policy.
- The Baltimore City inspector general found eight instances in which the Office of Information & Technology let employees resign rather than terminating them, allowing them to remain in the city’s payroll system while they depleted unused time off.
- A Maryland man was sentenced Tuesday to seven months in federal prison for making death threats against U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris when they were candidates during the 2020 campaign.
- Jurisdictions in the Baltimore area aren’t yet planning to modify masking rules in response to fresh Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance released Tuesday, which recommended that fully vaccinated people wear masks indoors under certain circumstances.
- The central committees are tasked with running voter registration campaigns, promoting the election of candidates from their parties and filling vacancies among other duties. Members serve four-year terms.
- Steve Strawn, the head of the city’s Republican party, was among 20 political candidates who filed ahead of a 9 p.m. deadline Monday to run for Annapolis elected positions that included City Council and party central committee seats.
- Jeffrey W. Long, a retired deputy director of the Baltimore County Department of Planning, died of cardiac arrest July 14. The Towson resident was 63.
- The Maryland Attorney General's Office has hired a former Department of Justice Civil Rights trial attorney to investigate police-involved killings in a new unit.
- The ongoing negotiations over a nearly $1 trillion investment in the nation’s railroads, roads, bridges, ports and broadband internet — and how Maryland might spend federal dollars it receives — took center stage in a virtual summit hosted by the Greater Baltimore Committee.
- President Joe Biden is nominating eight new leaders for U.S. attorney positions across the country, including in the office overseeing the prosecutions of hundreds of defendants charged in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
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- A 33-year-old woman drove around with the body of a young girl in her trunk for "many months," then in May placed the girl’s dead younger brother in the trunk beside her decomposing body, according to documents charging her in connection with their deaths.
- Thomas Theophilus “TJ” Jenkins, a retired Baltimore City College art teacher and musician who performed in Fells Point, died of a massive heart attack July 8. He was 69 and was living in LaVale near Cumberland.
- The delta variant is much more contagious and more likely to break through protections afforded by the vaccines than all other known versions of the virus, according to an internal presentation circulated within the CDC.
- Bill Stromberg, CEO of Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price Group, will retire in December after 35 years at the money management firm. Rob Sharps, a 24-year veteran of the firm, will become president and CEO Jan. 1 and take over as chair of the management committee.
- Cultivating native plants and trees is a great first step toward protecting the environment. Here's how to get started.
- A 33-year-old woman drove around with the body of a young girl in her trunk for "many months," then in May placed the girl’s dead younger brother in the trunk beside her decomposing body, according to documents charging her in connection with their deaths.