Scott Plank’s generosity to Democratic electeds – including $20,000 to the party’s Senate caucus committee – came ahead of the Baltimore Board of Estimates’ approval yesterday of a $17.9 million lease deal.

Without access to IT system data and financial records, the Office of the Inspector General cannot effectively identify and prevent waste, fraud and abuse in city government, the board says.

Between the continuing chaos in Minneapolis and ICE’s apparent plan to turn a Hagerstown warehouse into a detention center, they had plenty to protest today.

Rising from the City Council to a seat on the Board of Estimates yields a flood of campaign cash. What went to whom in 2025, from Alex Smith’s Atlas Restaurant Group to Johns Hopkins University.