Center Maryland Morning Rundown — Tuesday, November 3

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Tuesday, November 3, 2026

Maryland voters head to the polls today while state and local leadership transitions loom across the region.

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Maryland election officials warn that complete results may not be available on election night due to mail-in ballot processing.
Delayed outcome announcements are typical in states with high mail-in voting volumes and require time for verification and counting.

Maryland voters will elect a governor and decide congressional redistricting maps on Election Day.
The ballot includes multiple high-profile positions alongside the redistricting decision.

Maryland's poll workers undergo extensive training and work long hours to help voters cast ballots and manage election day operations.
Poll workers cite civic responsibility as motivation for their work ensuring elections run smoothly across the state.

Forever chemicals are polluting a substantial majority of tested waterways in the Chesapeake Bay region, according to a new report.
PFAS were detected in 100% of the waterway locations tested in the District of Columbia, 100% in Delaware, 95% in Pennsylvania, 93% in New York, 71% in West Virginia, 70% in Virginia and 67% in Maryland. The testing was conducted from 2022 to 2024.

After temporarily abandoning its appointment last week, the Prince George’s County Council on Monday named a new county auditor during a last-minute virtual meeting one day before the General Election.
The meeting, announced via email 40 minutes before it was scheduled to begin, and which started 35 minutes late, grew heated as council members repeatedly interrupted each other.

Former Baltimore City Councilman Robert W. “Bobby” Curran, a member of one of Maryland’s most prominent political families, died Friday in his sleep, his brother said. He was 76.
“He was a person who cared about what a councilman was supposed to be doing,” said his brother, former Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr. “He went to the community meetings, found out what was going on, who was happy with what was happening, what city services needed to be improved.”

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball will resign this month to become interim president at Baltimore City Community College.
Ball made history as Howard County's first Black county executive before departing for the community college role.

The Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site Establishment Act of 2025 (S. 791 and H.R. 1718), introduced by Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks and Rep. Kweisi Mfume, with bipartisan support from Maryland’s congressional delegation, would designate that school a national historic site — an affiliated area of the National Park System.
The Senate has held its hearing. What the bill needs now is the unmistakable voice of Maryland’s citizens and voters. Call and write your members of Congress and urge passage before the 119th Congress adjourns. And if it falls short, our delegation should reintroduce it in January, in the 120th Congress, and Marylanders should be ready to press until it is law. This is our history, our city and our justice. Let us not leave it waiting.

Montgomery County school board candidate Omar Lazo experienced a home foreclosure in 2010 following his bank's collapse.
Lazo attributed the foreclosure to bank non-responsiveness during the Great Recession financial crisis.

Baltimore City Community College President Debra McCurdy will retire at the end of December after seven years leading the institution.
Her departure will likely trigger a presidential search process for the community college system.