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 states.

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Baltimore Brew is a daily online journal featuring independent reporting and informed commentary about greater Baltimore.

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 ...

Mayor Brandon Scott and his law department are making bogus claims to deny Isabel Mercedes Cumming access to records needed for her watchdog investigations. [OP-ED] ...

Building renovations, not recent public controversies, are the grounds for the cancellation of public testimony, council chair says.

Over this past weekend, our Delegation was contacted by a number of concerned residents regarding two separate decisions of the Baltimore City Board of Liquor License Commissioners, cases heard on ...

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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, ...

Ex-offender Ellsworth Johnson-Bey advocated for city youth, helping them steer clear of the rough side of Baltimore. But the fatal blow for “Brother Bey" came not from the streets, but from a nursing ...

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 ...

On Saturday, the OIG was denied access to city records. Today the inspector general fired back, saying, “We basically cannot do our job.” UPDATED with mayor’s office reply.