“Along with fast-tracking the money, Noem flew to Naples on a government plane to tour the pier herself.”

Great @thebaltimorebanner.com story on the business of music festivals

The A-10 era is over for the Maryland Air National Guard

Between 2019 and 2025, there's been a 28% decline in the real value of Philly's major office buildings. Its not over: some buildings that recently sold for less than half their assessments will win their appeals. This has implications for the tax base and BID budgets www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

NEW: The IRS has scrutinized Baltimore nonprofit Second Chance, its appraiser and donors for years. Donors have been writing off their entire homes, rather than just salvaged materials. Tax guys say, uh, no. Read @lillianreed.bsky.social in @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebanner.com/economy/seco...

Notable:

"He wore a gray Buc-ee’s hoodie and an Orioles cap to represent his hometown." via @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebanner.com/culture/thin...

Howard County planners reject Sheetz development on historic pet cemetery

Will Tradepoint gobble up a Locust Point pier’s salt haul?

Jimmy Kimmel's suspension is "not enough" for local media giant Sinclair. w/ @leeosanderlin.bsky.social www.thebanner.com/economy/jimm...

Enoch George Howard bought his freedom, and hundreds of acres of Montgomery County land. Read about this remarkable Marylander, and the new state park that will tell his story. Beautifully written by @juliemore19.bsky.social @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

"The state’s fledgling industry may face its doomsday in President Donald Trump, who has a longtime grudge against turbines." Great read by @adampwillis.bsky.social

Meet The Banner Montgomery newsroom buff.ly/nDRBXpG

It's been over five years since the onset of COVID-19, which means the babies born into the pandemic are off to pre-K 4 and kindergarten. How exactly can teachers support these kiddos, who spent their earliest years in isolation? I dug into it: www.thebanner.com/education/ea...

Johns Hopkins says UnitedHealthcare talks are over without return to network

Brandon Chasen says he doesn’t know where $600,000 in wired money went

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

"I was the last remaining Black full-time opinion columnist at the Post, in one of the nation’s most diverse regions. Washington D.C."

Two buildings, $1.6 billion in estimated economic impact, 102 trees and a neighborhood on edge. A postcard from Remington Avenue where Johns Hopkins’ plan to build an artificial intelligence institute unlike any other has met fierce pushback. www.thebanner.com/economy/real...

Informative read by @kris10griffith.bsky.social & Nori Leybengrub

City College teens boosted Mount Vernon eateries. Then came the crackdown.

NEW: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has named Lester Davis as his next chief of staff. Currently a VP at CareFirst, Davis was a VP at powerhouse firm SKDK, advised the Moore campaign & was a top aide to former Bmore Mayor Jack Young. From @leeosanderlin.bsky.social & me: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Venezuelan crab meat is everywhere and seemingly an ideal candidate for a tariff-happy Trump administration. So why can't Maryland's seafood industry convince them? www.thebanner.com/economy/dona...

Olszewski’s former chief of staff identified as employee in inspector general lawsuit, @rkobell.bsky.social reports. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)

New: Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

"It’s akin to having someone run a vacuum beside you at all hours."

With President Trump repeatedly threatening to send the military to Baltimore, read about how daily life and acts of resistance in Washington exist side by side. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, Chalkbeat spoke with five New Orleans educators about surviving the storm, teaching in Katrina’s wake, and how they understand the seismic changes to the city’s school system. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/28/n...

The influence of Baltimore’s preeminent jazz pianist extends well beyond the city

A boat named Limitless! The personal and company bankruptcies of Baltimore big-shot developer Brandon Chasen and Chasen Cos. will be an interesting reveal. via @thebaltimorebanner.com

After the Western Maryland floods: An uplifting back-to-school must-read 🍎

The whistleblower in this case is ** the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration**

If you read this obit, you will see why @alissazhu.bsky.social is such a valued colleague. So much heart here for a man others would surely overlook. www.thebanner.com/obituaries/m...

From @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Trump threatens to revoke Key Bridge funds, send troops to Baltimore www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

Outstanding read by @hayesgardner.bsky.social on the business decisions behind shuttering a beloved Maryland amusement park. 🎢📉

I love this essay by @briaovers.bsky.social … social media is sometimes woven together with work

Unfortunate timing that Gov. Moore made a big pitch for fired federal workers to get state jobs … and then froze state hiring. By @brendawintrode.bsky.social & Sapna Bansil

Read this for the great writing by @juliemore19.bsky.social: "... the insects have fanned out to 20 other states, and like ambitious sales reps, are always looking to expand their territory."

Insightful profile by @justinfenton.bsky.social

Maryland pastor ‘happy to be home’ after ICE arrest

They’re feeding the hungry. Then guarding the door from ICE.

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

“They just don’t see our crabs as valuable anymore," said one Maryland waterman. There are winners and losers in the modern crab business. Inside the lucrative market of trucking in Louisiana blue crabs. buff.ly/d5WUsHu

Baltimore: “So far gone”

Odyssey of the crab: Inside the 1,100-mile network feeding Maryland’s frenzy

Michael Shores Jr., proprietor of Beef Barons at the JFX Farmers' Market, was fatally shot in the head and found in his burning home in Pennsylvania last Sunday. As authorities investigate, farmers' market patrons offered tribute: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/mi...

Head Start, the child tax credit, extra English help: These are all things undocumented and kids in mixed-status families stand to lose under the 2nd Trump admin. Anti-immigrant rhetoric & increased deportations are eating away at kids' mental health www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/ea...

A Maryland prison has a security fence problem. It nearly fell down again

The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.