When Larry Hogan announced his bid for Maryland’s U.S. Senate seat, it immediately turned the state into ground zero for the Democratic Party’s chances to hold onto its thin majority. To replace retiring Sen. Ben Cardin, the party will now likely have to expend significant party resources to defeat a formidable former governor on the Republican side in what previously seemed like a safe blue seat.

Decades before Peter G. Angelos, multi-millionaire baseball team owner, came off as ruthless, headstrong and too eager to pick a fight, he was known to Baltimoreans in 1959 as a 29-year-old, fresh-faced City Council member who could be ruthless, headstrong and eager to fight.

In 2018, when Mike DeWine was Ohio’s attorney general, he began investigating an obscure corner of the health care industry. He believed that insurers were inflating prescription drug prices through management companies that operated as middlemen in the drug supply chain. There were concerns that these companies, known as pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, were fleecing agencies like Medicaid, the government-run health insurance program for the poor.

 

At rush hour in Baltimore, downtown can feel like one big parking lot. Thousands of vehicles flow into the city center from Interstate 95 to the south and Interstate 83 to the north, leading to traffic jams along the roads near the Inner Harbor. So when developer P. David Bramble proposed reducing Pratt Street’s four travel lanes to two and eliminating the Light Street spur as part of his reimagining of Harborplace, many wondered: Where will the traffic go?

Spring break is here, and Baltimore City officials are taking steps to provide safe activities for students and their families. For the second year in a row, Spring Break Skate will offer a pop-up roller rink in downtown Baltimore. Downtown Partnerships president Shelonda Stokes said it promises to be a great time for all.

The death of Orioles owner Peter Angelos raises questions about what happens to the team now. Here are five key questions and answers: How will Angelos’ death affect the pending sale of the Orioles? Angelos’ death on Saturday will not affect current plans in place for the sale valuing the team at $1.725 billion, according to Chris Ullman, a spokesperson for David Rubenstein, 74, the leader of the group buying the club.

Hagerstown Regional Airport Fire Department Station 35 has acquired a 2004 Crimson Spartan Unit. This highly specialized vehicle features a wide array of on-board rescue tools and equipment. Known as “Unit 35,” this truck is expected to enhance HGR’s ability to respond in a timely manner to on-airport fires and medical emergencies, aircraft incidents/accidents, airport area-motor vehicle accidents along with mass -casualty events affecting the local community.

 

Marylanders are now without legal protections for many forms of discrimination, leaving them exposed to serious harms with no state-level legal recourse. This past August, the Maryland Supreme Court issued a troubling ruling in John Doe v. CRS. The decision weakened the statutory protections afforded to all Marylanders under every state anti-discrimination clause.

The Maryland Senate as early as this week could take up the stalled appointment of a Howard County woman to the Maryland State Board of Elections. Diane Butler was nominated by the Maryland Republican Party to fill one of two vacancies on the panel. The Senate Executive Nominations Committee delayed a vote two weeks ago after one member of the committee asked for a pause because of comments made in emails and a social media post described as antisemitic.

 

A piercing thought stopped Jim Palmer in the midst of a recent conversation covering his 61 years with the Orioles. He has never traveled to Baltimore for a baseball spring without knowing Brooks Robinson would be there. Robinson, who died in September, was more than a longtime teammate and hot corner hoover who kept runs off Palmer’s pitching ledger.