Shen reported for The Baltimore Evening Sun in the late 1980s and then for 17 years was a staff writer for The Washington Post. An award-winning writer on The Post’s Metro staff, she covered Maryland ...

Some Brew coverage over the years has been especially thorough, telling the story of an issue or controversy with a series of stories, follow-ups and analyses. We’ve begun to collect this topical, ...

After his surprise victory in August was challenged and all results were scrapped, McNair tried unsuccessfully in court to halt the second election. Today he again beat AFSCME officials’ favored ...

Reutter has been reporting and writing on Baltimore since 1970, when he started as a 19-year-old summer intern covering cops for The Evening Sun. He worked on a wide range of beats for the Sunpapers, ...

At the request of Zeke Cohen, the spending board backed away from approving a 400% increase for locksmith services. Questions remain, but documents show who okayed the previous expenditures.

An AFSCME judicial panel’s decision to throw out the August election that swept an insurgent slate into office would likely be upheld, he says, denying request for a temporary restraining order.

Chairing a hearing on the most controversial bill before his Land Use and Transportation Committee, Councilman Ryan Dorsey yesterday announced “we have no intention of voting this bill today” and it ...

Latest flash point in the inspector general saga – the $218,000-a-year salary the Klausmeier administration is offering its nominee. The Catonsville Democrat supported Kelly Madigan, but says he must ...

Stancil McNair and his insurgent slate say a second election is “unjustified and unlawful.” AFSCME concedes that a judge could determine that the union “has breached its Constitution by ordering a new ...

Coverage of Baltimore and the region for The Brew by Dan Rodricks. After writing an award-winning column for the Baltimore Sun for 46 years, Rodricks resigned in January 2025, a year after the Sun's ...

While Mayor Brandon Scott pledges to end municipal trash burning at the polluting BRESCO incinerator, his administration is telling state officials that Baltimore’s biggest source of industrial ...