Maryland faces questions about infrastructure costs, educational access, and governance as voters and officials weigh competing priorities ahead of the fall election.

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• Immigration advocates are opposing Trump administration efforts to overturn state laws allowing immigrants in-state college tuition rates.
• Maryland's in-state tuition law for immigrants is among the state laws targeted by the Trump administration's policy initiative.

• New survey also finds Gov. Wes Moore’s job approval holding steady despite anger over economic conditions.
• A majority of Maryland voters are opposed to building data centers in the state and have a dim view of artificial intelligence, which they believe will have a negative impact on society, a new poll shows.

• Julián Curo-Churata lived in Laurel for about 17 years before he was detained in June by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
• The 47-year-old originally from Peru had volunteered to leave the country on his own, but a judge denied the request Sept. 18, according to ICE. On Sept. 29, Curo-Churata died in ICE custody. He is the 37th person to die while in ICE detention in the past year, according to the agency.

• A senior official with Baltimore’s Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (MONSE) supported Tyree Reynolds’ request last year for a reduced prison sentence, telling a judge the agency would help him get a job, housing, and therapeutic support after his release. Reynolds had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a 2021 shooting, with all but eight years suspended.
• Eight days after Reynolds was released, police say he opened fire at a youth football game in West Baltimore, killing 12-year-old Khloe Ishway and wounding three other people after an argument with two men over parking.

• Republican Dan Cox said he’s asked his adult son to apologize for a purported private conversation posted to the internet.
• The Republican candidate for Maryland governor disavowed remarks purportedly made by his adult son calling Jewish people pedophiles, “scum who killed my savior Jesus” and claiming they worshiped at a “Synagogue of Satan.”

• The company relinquishes its lease to shipbuilder Anduril Industries amid continued delays besetting Ocean City wind project.
• It comes as US Wind’s only offshore wind project, planned for Ocean City’s coastline, continues to face legal headwinds and roadblocks from the Trump administration.

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