Politics

The Maryland Stadium Authority on Tuesday voted to opt out of a revenue sharing agreement with the Orioles for an upcoming Bruce Springsteen concert. This is the third time the authority has opted out of a cut stemming from events not related to baseball games. Instead, the authority, which manages Oriole Park at Camden Yards, will settle for roughly $800,000 — the lion’s share of amusement tax revenue.

A monthslong campaign by homeowners to stop Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.’s controversial practice of installing gas regulators on the facades of city homes has been resolved in residents’ favor. Residential gas customers can choose whether gas pressure regulators are installed inside or outside their homes, except under some circumstances, said the Maryland Public Service Commission, which oversees utilities, in an order Tuesday.

Councilmember Zeke Cohen on Tuesday applauded the Public Service Commission’s Decision regarding the placement of BGE gas regulators. Cohen states that the decision puts the power back in the hands of the people. Throughout his statement, Cohen expressed a variety of emotions, diving into his respect for PSC Chair Hoover and perhaps lack of for BGE.

After months of struggling to find agreement on just about anything in a divided Congress, lawmakers are returning to Capitol Hill to try to avert a government shutdown, even as House Republicans consider whether to press forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. A short-term funding measure to keep government offices fully functioning will dominate the September agenda, along with emergency funding for Ukraine, federal disaster funds and the Republican-driven probe into Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings.

Fall service changes from the Maryland Transit Administration went into effect recently, adjusting certain bus routes. Most notable was the addition of QuickLink 40 — a tweaked and rebranded version of the old QuickBus 40 — that connects Westgate and Essex through downtown. With plans for the Red Line — a future east-west transit line that Gov. Wes Moore officially resurrected in June — still unknown and years away, the express bus line will serve as the crosstown answer for the time being.

In early June, a staff member in the Mayor’s Office of Homeless Services asked her supervisor for help crafting a sensitive, and potentially explosive, email. Due to a cascade of challenges within the city agency, it had missed a consequential federal reporting deadline, staffer Camille Wathne wrote in the email draft. Without the report, the department couldn’t submit a request for financial reimbursement from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan hasn’t completely ruled out running for president with an independent party if former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are front-runners as Republican and Democratic nominees early next year, he said on CBS News on Sunday. Robert Costa of “Face the Nation” asked whether Hogan is open to running as a candidate with No Labels, the party he co-chairs.