Across two interviews today, Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young said Police Commissioner Michael Harrison’s crime plan is working, even as shootings and homicides continue apace.
At his weekly press conference, the mayor said the micro-zones police have targeted under the commissioner’s strategy are seeing results, but criminals have now relocated.
“They’re moving out, so we have to start shifting,” he said.
By Dan Novak
Capital News Service
WASHINGTON– Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Maryland may lose more than $4 million in federal funding if Congress does not reauthorize mandatory spending for those institutions beyond the current academic year.
Maryland’s HBCUs “face a funding cliff due to congressional inaction,” Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Maryland) said on the Senate floor Tuesday.
Under Armour stock is down 17 percent today after CNBC and The Wall Street Journal reported the Baltimore-based athletic apparel company is being investigated by the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission over its accounting practice.
The company’s stock was trading at $17.45 per share by mid-day Monday after previously closing at $21.14.
A city council committee formed in the wake of a ransomware attack that crippled municipal networks is set to hold its inaugural meeting on Wednesday.
The Cybersecurity and Emergency Preparedness Committee is scheduled to meet in the “Du” Burns Council Chambers at City Hall on Nov. 6 at 5 p.m.
City Council President Brandon Scott, who formed the committee after the May cyber attack, said the group will review the soft spots in the city’s networks that allowed the breach to happen and how future strikes can be prevented.
By Teresa Johnson
Capital News Service
ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Board of Public Works on Wednesday approved compensation of approximately $9 million for five men wrongly convicted and later exonerated.
The exonerees are set to receive different award amounts based on the amount of time they spent in prison.
Comptroller Peter Franchot said that they will receive approximately $78,000 for every year they spent in incarceration.
Former Baltimore police spokesman T.J. Smith today launched his candidacy for mayor, pitching himself as someone who can shake-up the political status quo.
Standing a short distance from the site where his younger brother Dionay was fatally shot, Smith said the city’s political class has become fixated with 300 annual murders as a measuring stick for success.
Baltimore State Sen. Jill P. Carter announced today she is considering a run for the late Elijah Cummings’ congressional seat.
Citing the her civil rights record, learned from activist father Walter P. Carter, and Cummings’ nickname for her as the “People’s Champion,” Carter cast herself as an appropriate candidate to fill the longtime Congressman’s shoes.
Gov. Larry Hogan today ordered a special election to fill the seat for Maryland’s 7th District in the House of Representatives, a position held for decades by the late Elijah Cummings.
According to state law, a primary election must be held at least 65 days after the governor’s proclamation, and a general election at least 65 days after that.
Candidates can begin filing on Wednesday, and have until Nov. 20 to do so. There’s a Nov. 22 deadline for dropping out of the race.
In recent years, some have said Baltimore’s political clout in Annapolis is declining, with economist Anirban Basu likening the city’s influence to a “fading star” compared with other jurisdictions.
So the news today that one of the city’s state senators, Bill Ferguson of the 46th District, was picked as the successor to longtime Senate President Thomas V. “Mike” Miller was embraced by Baltimore’s political leaders as a chance to have an advocate in a position of influence.
By Elliott Davis
Capital News Service
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland—Maryland Senate President Thomas V. “Mike” Miller Jr. announced Thursday that he is stepping down from the position he’s held for more than three decades as he continues to battle cancer.
