Sarah Petrowich
Maryland State Government & Politics ReporterSarah is the Maryland State Government & Politics Reporter for WYPR.
She came to WYPR in 2025 after previously covering state politics for Delaware's lone NPR member station Delaware Public Media. There, she led award-winning coverage on the state legislature, public education funding reform, the launch of the state's recreational marijuana market and Delaware's 2024 gubernatorial race, producing stories for NPR's All Things Considered and Here & Now.
She has a degree in journalism and political science from the University of Missouri, where she aided in podcast production, general assignment reporting and coverage of the Missouri General Assembly for KBIA. She has also done reporting for WUSF in Tampa, Florida, and production and social media work for POLITICO Europe in Brussels, Belgium. While largely having grown up in the Midwest, Sarah spent the first several years of her youth in Fairbanks, Alaska.
When a microphone is not in her hand, Sarah can be found hiking, logging movies on Letterboxd and rooting for the Chicago Cubs.
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The bill is named after Kanaiyah Ward, a 16-year-old girl who died in Department of Human Services custody in September last year. -
Maryland’s lone Republican Congressman and Trump ally Andy Harris visited Annapolis to talk statewide energy policy and Maryland issues on a national scale. -
State lawmakers were quick to question and seek alternatives to some of the governor’s major energy proposals as the two branches weigh how best to provide utility bill relief to Marylanders. -
Betsy Fox Tolentino has been leading the Department of Juvenile Services for over seven months and state legislators appear ready to make her appointment official. -
Amid ramped up federal immigration enforcement efforts, Maryland lawmakers are working to regulate state-level participation where they can. -
Maryland has been a member of the PJM Interconnection for seventy years, but state officials wonder if leaving the grid could help lower utility bills. -
Jeffries met with Senate President Bill Ferguson to try and sway Ferguson to pursue a Democratic-leaning Congressional map. -
Gov. Wes Moore signed legislation on Tuesday that requires Maryland jurisdictions to immediately terminate their 287(g) agreements. -
Two proposed bills would create legal ramifications for using deepfake technology to spread election misinformation and impersonate someone with an intent to defraud them. -
An estimated 12,000 spectators lined the street leading up to the state house to catch a glimpse of the monks who walked for 109 days to promote peace.
