Maryland

The high cost of housing: hitting Marylanders hard

According to data released by the Maryland Association of Realtors, the median sales price in the state increased by 70% over the past 10 years.

Angela Alsobrooks makes healthcare the focus of her early Senate years

WASHINGTON–If you wanted to summarize Sen. Angela Alsobrooks’ work in her first 16 months in Congress, you could do so in three letters: RFK.  The senator’s viral verbal spats with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are what she’s become…

‘Just give me a job’: Maryland former federal workers’ stories of survival

Thousands of Marylanders who lost or left their federal jobs over the past year have had to find new ways to get by, often doing gig work or switching careers.

Federal workers continue to turn to faith institutions a year after mass layoffs

Thousands of Marylanders were impacted by the mass federal layoffs last year. Some faith institutions continue to provide financial and spiritual care.

Disappearing demographic data impacts efforts to track who make up laid-off federal workers

The Trump administration has deleted or made private data tracking workers’ gender and race making it harder to know which groups has been impacted by layoffs.

The Price of Access

Maryland special interests, utilities, spend big on private committee dinners with Annapolis legislators who write their rules. Ratepayers, voters left out

State officials troubled over upcoming closure of federal agricultural research center in Maryland

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plan to close it’s flagship research center in Maryland could disrupt the state’s agriculture industry, experts said.

Federal worker layoffs threaten cornerstone industry for Maryland

State officials said Maryland is still reeling from the lost of more than 31,000 federal jobs after the Trump administration reduced the workforce last year.

“The Greek,” Laurel Park’s oldest backstretch worker, eyes his next wager after decades on the track

Chrysostomos Christopoulos says he’s lived at Laurel Park for 25 or 35 years. Or maybe 40. “All the people here know me,” he touted.