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Baltimore City, Baltimore County
- Without access to IT system data and financial records, the Office of the Inspector General cannot effectively identify and prevent waste, fraud and abuse in city government, the board says.
- Building renovations, not recent public controversies, are the grounds for the cancellation of public testimony, council chair says.
- Mayor Brandon Scott and his law department are making bogus claims to deny Isabel Mercedes Cumming access to records needed for her watchdog role. [OP-ED]
- Between the continuing chaos in Minneapolis and ICE’s apparent plan to turn a Hagerstown warehouse into a detention center, they had plenty to protest today.
- Rising from the City Council to a seat on the Board of Estimates yields a flood of campaign cash. What went to whom in 2025, from Alex Smith’s Atlas Restaurant Group to Johns Hopkins University.