The Anthony Hall settlement comes in addition to the $75 million-plus expended by Baltimore City since 2020 to settle police misconduct and wrongful conviction cases.

Emergency procurements not only skirt around Board of Estimates approval. They delay and sometimes hide public disclosure of how taxpayer money is used. Here are the two latest examples. UPDATED

In Baltimore and across Maryland abandoned “ghost cars” become collateral damage in the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.

There was no odor, a Maryland Department of the Environment inspector said, speculating that the source may be a flocculant or coagulant used for treatment of sediment-laden water on construction sites.