Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby, center, conducts a budget hearing on Wednesday, June 14, 2023. The Baltimore City Council unanimously voted to shift about $12 million within Mayor Brandon Scott’s 2024 budget proposal on Wednesday, marking the first time in more than a century that council members used such financial authority.

One by one local luminaries from the public and private sectors took the stage at the Baltimore Convention Center Monday afternoon to praise regional transit investment efforts. There was Gov. Wes Moore urging participants at the Greater Baltimore Committee’s first-ever summit on public transportation and economic development to “give it everything we got — no rest, all gas, no brakes.” And Mayor Brandon Scott, who sees resurrection of the Red Line, the proposed multibillion-dollar east-west transit link, as a potential remedy for “redlining” that long hampered prosperity in West Baltimore. Devloper P. David Bramble of MCB Real Estate, who faces the sizable challenge of “re-imagining” Harborplace, was just as bullish.

A federal judge on Thursday delayed her decision on whether to review and release grand jury minutes and witness testimony that led to Sheriff Chuck Jenkins’ indictment. U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher also said she would not dismiss the indictment against the sheriff in full, but would wait on further arguments to dismiss individual counts.

Maryland Child Protective Services evaluates thousands of potential cases of child neglect, abuse and mistreatment each year to determine what actions are needed to protect some of the state’s most vulnerable population: its youth. But according to a Wednesday discussion during a Joint Committee on Children, Youth and Families meeting, there are holes in the state data reporting and it’s currently unclear how many families and children receive services to protect kids from mistreatment.

Being in the top 1% of earners in D.C. requires $161,141 more than it did five years ago. That’s according to data from the Internal Revenue Service, which shows the cutoff for each adjusted gross income by percentile in each state. The data is based on the 2020 tax year and percentiles are based on total tax filers, so they don’t distinguish by marital or household status.

In the wake of law enforcement concerns related to school safety, education officials this week released a statement citing a breakdown in communication between the parties involved. In a statement released Tuesday evening, the Worcester County Board of Education stressed that schools were not unsafe and reiterated the school system’s commitment to providing a safe learning environment for students. Nevertheless, the board said a school safety task force was being created.

City Administrator Faith Leach touted Baltimore’s squeegee collaborative program at an international gathering of mayors, policymakers and consultants Thursday, positing it as one of Mayor Brandon Scott’s top achievements. The collaborative, borne from months of discussions with squeegee workers, business leaders, social workers and city officials, has resulted in an 83% decline in squeegee-related calls for service, Leach said at the Bloomberg CityLab 2023 conference in Washington, D.C.

A legislative work group established to assess data collection and policies of Maryland state’s attorney’s offices met for the first time Wednesday, but will have two months to provide recommendations on what information prosecutors should make public. The group co-chaired by Sen. Charles Sydnor (D-Baltimore County) and Del. David Moon (D-Montgomery) was created in 2022 by Senate Bill 763, which was part of a criminal justice reform package passed after the killing of George Floyd by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Maryland state Del. Joe Vogel still has raised the most out of the Democratic congressional candidates for District 6, while former U.S. Navy officer Tom Royals now leads the Republican field in campaign contributions, according to October reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. As of Sept. 30, Vogel had raised $252,813 and spent $93,374 in connection with his campaign — more than any other candidate running for the U.S. House of Representatives seat currently held by David Trone, who is now running for U.S. Senate.