Scott Plank’s generosity to Democratic electeds – including $20,000 to the party’s Senate caucus committee – came ahead of the Baltimore Board of Estimates’ approval yesterday of a $17.9 million lease ...

Baltimore Brew is a daily online journal featuring independent reporting and informed commentary about greater Baltimore.

Baltimore Brew is a daily online journal featuring independent reporting and informed commentary about greater Baltimore.

Mayor Brandon Scott and his law department are making bogus claims to deny Isabel Mercedes Cumming access to records needed for her watchdog investigations. [OP-ED] ...

After ICU nurse Alex Pretti was fatally shot today in Minneapolis, about 150 people demanded an end to President Trump’s ICE immigration crackdown here and across the country.

Building renovations, not recent public controversies, are the grounds for the cancellation of public testimony, council chair says.

Former members have also popped up, wagging a finger at their successors for what they call “a sharp departure from the ethical standards they observed while serving on the council.” ...

Baltimore Brew is a daily online journal featuring independent reporting and informed commentary about greater Baltimore.

If the salary increases recommended by the county’s Personnel and Salary Advisory Board are adopted, the annual pension of the sponsor of Bill 40-24, Councilman Wade Kach, would jump from $41,400 to ...

Rising from the Council to a seat on the Board of Estimates yields a flood of campaign cash. What went to whom in 2025, from Alex Smith’s Atlas Restaurant Group to Johns Hopkins University.

Outside the Baltimore field office where people are being detained in what advocates say are deplorable conditions, hundreds of protesters gathered today to demand that U.S. Immigration and Customs ...