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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Regional electric grid stakeholders could not land on one data center regulation proposal, but a Maryland state senator remains confident her submission is in the running. -
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program funds are still delayed following the reopening of the federal government. -
State lawmakers are taking a look at carving out exceptions to its two-party recording consent laws. -
The Maryland Board of Public Works awards a $2.8 million contract to TEACH.org to help address the state’s educator shortage. -
PJM stakeholders will vote Wednesday to recommend if data centers should bring their own energy onto the grid in an effort to curb rising utility costs. -
Maryland’s latest fiscal update projects a nearly $1.5 billion budget deficit next fiscal year, and the out years are shaping up to be worse. -
Eight Maryland counties maintain 287(g) agreements with federal immigration authorities, but Wicomico paused its plans to work with ICE out of fear of legal consequences. -
Although the federal government appears to be on the verge of reopening, Maryland Food Bank CEO Meg Kimmel expects food distribution efforts to be impacted for months to come. -
Federal funding for transportation projects has been reinstated despite Maryland’s resistance to mass deportation efforts, but other funds could be in jeopardy. -
Gov. Wes Moore announces the latest wave of financial, transit and energy assistance as the longest government shutdown in history endures.
