supplemental nutrition assistance program

When planning began for the second season of the Roving Radish earlier this year, the mobile food market had an established customer base, blossoming relationships with several local farms and support from new Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman -- much more than might have been expected just a year ago, when it began as a pilot program.

The Community Crisis Center is holding its Annual Golf Outing from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 28.

Mildred "Millie" Baynor, a 21-year employee at the Enoch Pratt central library and longtime Baltimore social worker, died Tuesday at her Gwynn Oak home after a brief illness. She was 89.

With one in four Baltimoreans living in a food desert, city officials have a long road ahead to deliver on promises of healthy, affordable and accessible food options. One of the city's approaches follows a tried-and-true roadmap that involves offering incentives, like tax breaks for locating in underserved areas, to retailers and developers — also known as "fresh food financing." There is a simpler, less costly solution under consideration, however: changing when food stamps are

The Salvation Army in Carroll County has stepped in to take over coordination of the Neighbors in Need Christmas program that was formerly operated by Human Services Programs of Carroll County Inc.,

Former mayor Sheila Dixon is suddenly ubiquitous.

The mayor's plan to improve access to healthy foods in the city's poorest neighborhoods is a first step toward a healthier Baltimore

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and several city leaders on Wednesday announced the release of a report detailing the difficulty Baltimore residents have in accessing affordable and healthy food and suggestions for improvement.

A new Maryland law called the Hunger-Free Schools Act of 2015, signed by Gov. Larry Hogan May 12, will allow an entire school to qualify for free breakfast and lunch for students from low-income families, rather than individual students.

Deciding whether the 1990s investment in Sandtown-Winchester succeeded or failed is a red herring in the fight for a city where our fundamental needs of education, health care, housing, food, income security, and work with dignity can be met.

The status of poor people does not register on the radar of most Republicans, says David Horsey.

People who have never experienced the poverty of Baltimore city don't understand. Outsiders see the tall buildings and pretty harbor and think they know what is going on. What's happening now is the result of a broken system. I was a correctional officer in the worst jail in Baltimore city, and now I work at the Department of Social Services.

Rioters have no excuse

Cutting food stamps for the poor or limiting what they can purchase is the latest cause for the GOP.

Availability of fresh produce downtown is a 'SNAP' thanks to thoughtful vendors at farmer's market

The rise in food stamps is a marker of income inequality, not laziness among the poor.

Want to make this country stronger? We need better values and more personal responsibility

Susan Reimer on the retirement crisis in Maryland

Requests for aid to nonprofits and other service providers was the theme Thursday night during Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker's second and final budget hearing, held at Laurel High School.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake wants to give a tax break to supermarkets that locate in Baltimore's food deserts and to add more protections for homeowners facing a city tax sale due to to unpaid taxes or water bills.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama revived his call Thursday for an end to deep cuts in federal spending, an appeal that fell squarely in the divide between Republicans in Congress who want to rein in costs and those who want to boost the Pentagon's budget.

Hogan's cuts to Baltimore schools make bad business sense.

The GOP has a new diva: Joni Ernst, the just-elected United State senator from the cornfields of Iowa.

B. Green & Co. helped pioneer warehouse-style supermarkets in the 1970s and at one time ran the biggest grocery wholesaler on the East Coast. More recently, the family-owned retailer launched a campaign to expand healthy food choices in the city's poorest neighborhoods.

For seven years, postal worker Colette Lee of Baltimore illegally collected nearly $250,000 in federal benefits after telling the government she was disabled as a result of a work-related injury. Her scheme is part of a broader trend under which instances of health care fraud are increasing in the U.S. Postal Service even as the volume of mail and number of new claims have dropped.

Baltimore's Virtual Supermarket program will be offered at Perkins Homes and Wayland Village Senior Apartments, under an expansion Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is expected to announce Tuesday.

This Thanksgiving put an extra chair at your table and make room for a "silent guest." That guest can be one of the world's 805 million hungry people. The "silent guest" tradition goes back to the autumn of 1947, when families across America rallied to feed the hungry in Europe. People across the country pitched in, collecting enough food to feed a silent guest at their tables. They filled carloads of the Friendship Train with food to send overseas. Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

Profile of St, Mary's Outreach Center in Hampden, a longtime resource for low-income seniors, and its director, Sandy Simmons. This will be the cover story of Nov. 27 (Share Your Blessings issue), and the peg is that the organization will be holding its Fifth Annual Friendraiser gala on Dec. 2.

The 12th season of Howard County's Grassroots Cold Weather Shelter program begins Monday, and the shelter will operate continuously through March 30.

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe will likely be chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee

Are you better off than you were eight years ago?

The Democrats have led the country astray; vote them out.

Voter ID laws not only don't target minorities, they have no effect on turnout either

U.S. should invest in needed public infrastructure instead of 'boots on the ground'

The nonprofit St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore announced Monday that it would use a $1.5 million grant to expand it's rapid re-housing program to serve 195 homeless families over the next three years.

The federal government plans to shift the cost of accepting food stamps to retailers in the coming weeks, a move that Baltimore officials and anti-hunger advocates said Tuesday could make it harder for some families to buy groceries.

Undocumented immigrants are destroying America