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The CEO of Baltimore City public schools, Gregory Thornton, plans to cut more than $70 million dollars in school spending, including some teachers’ jobs,…

Governor-elect Larry Hogan ran on the campaign promise of balancing the state budget and cutting taxes. The budget will be the big issue of the General…

Two state agencies have released a report recommending that fracking be allowed in western Maryland – but only if restrictions are put on drilling. We…

After years of stalemate, legislation is moving through the General Assembly that would legalize home births attended by a certified professional midwife.…

Robert Caret, President of the University of Massachusetts and former President of Towson University, is returning to Maryland to head its system of…

In Baltimore recently, President Obama spoke in support of making employers pay for up to seven days when workers stay home sick. More than 700,000…

The protests and riot of the last week have focused our attention on the fractured relationship between police and some neighborhoods. The Public…

Baltimore has less than a third as many kids in foster care as were there seven years ago – which means more kids with their families. We ask city social…

Today on Maryland Morning, the revenue from casinos in Maryland is not matching what the state expected, and hasn’t for years. Why not? We ask what that…

Judges in different parts of Maryland, under the same state law, grant protective orders at dramatically different rates. Why? We ask Laurie Duker,…

You can’t really be successful these days in business, in school or any other activity – without access to high-speed internet. In the counties around…

What does Gov. Larry Hogan’s cancellation of the Red Line in Baltimore mean for public transportation in the city? We talk with urban design expert Klaus…

Baltimore’s police commissioner is out; there’s a new interim commissioner. What is the way forward to stop violent crime in the city? We talk with Heber…

We visit Bard High School Early College in East Baltimore where students earn a liberal-arts associate’s degree along with a high-school diplomaa: At Bard…

For the first day of school this year we’re revisiting a story on how Baltimore City public school students get to school. The yellow bus has long been an…

As the General Assembly considers how to fund today’s needs, how does it take tomorrow’s into account? We check on the health of Maryland’s state pension…

We’ll start this morning with a look at some of the big stories that are developing this week. WYPR’s Kenneth Burns and Fraser Smith join me to talk about…

Analysis last spring found that more people from the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood in West Baltimore are incarcerated in Maryland state prisons … than…

Millions of dollars invested in Baltimore’s Sandtown neighborhood have not reversed the toll of drug epidemics and the disappearance of jobs. We ask…

We begin with Dr. Gary LaFree, a terrorism expert from the University of MD. We’ll find out how the latest data on terrorism may inform the world’s…