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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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. -
Maryland is suing the Trump administration over its abandonment of plans to move FBI headquarters from DC to the City of Greenbelt. -
The Board of Public Works approves the Maryland Department of Transportation’s request to temporarily hire extra staffing to reevaluate thousands of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises under new federal guidelines. -
Brown explains guidance for local law enforcement working with federal agents, as well as preparing for threats of a National Guard deployment to Baltimore. -
Maryland lawmakers and the attorney general show their support for US Wind as the Trump administration works to revoke federal permits for the company’s offshore wind project. -
In lieu of covering the cost of SNAP benefits set to expire at the end of October, Moore is sending funds to food banks and partners statewide. -
Gov. Moore is set to announce alternate plans Thursday to using state reserve funding to cover the impending loss of federal food assistance dollars. -
The federal food assistance program is set to run out of funding at the end of October, but Democratic states argue contingency funds should be used to continue providing benefits.
