Author: Jan Greenhawk

Rules Against Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott In His Dispute With City Inspector Isabel Cummings It’s been a battle since 2025. City Inspector Isabel Cummings’ job is to audit and oversee spending, actions, etc. of the Baltimore City government, including the Mayor’s Office. The Inspector was reviewing financial records of the city’s controversial MONSE (Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement), a group created to prevent crime in the city. Those records included all checks, expenditures, contracts, etc. issued in the program. Suddenly in the middle of this investigation, the Mayor’s Office stop supplying documents or provided heavily redacted documents.…

U.S. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon notified the State of Maryland that she has triggered a civil rights investigation regarding the state’s distribution of faulty ballots for the primary election in June. The state announced that 500,000 primary ballots were erroneously printed and sent out to voters earlier this month. The error caused voters to get ballots for the wrong political party. Maryland State Administrator of Elections Jared DeMarinis said that all voters will get replacement ballots, even if their original ballot was correct. They will be told to destroy the original ballot and use the replacement. The mistake affected…

While listening to one of my favorite podcasts the other day, I heard conservative commentator Phil Bell describe a law just passed in Maryland as one of the biggest “end runs” around the first amendment. The phrasing was accurate. (See his video at end of this article.) The law is the LOCAL NEWS FOR MARYLAND COMMUNITIES ACT OF 2026. It is a law that requires state agencies spend as least 50% of their advertising budget on Maryland based news outlets. This includes print, digital, radio, TV, non-profit and public media outlets. The law takes effect October 1,2026, right before the…

It shouldn’t be this difficult to get elections right in Maryland. After all, Maryland is a relatively small state with approximately 4,312,855 registered voters (18th out of 50) compared to states like California with over twenty-three million. Neighboring states Virginia (12th out of 50) and Pennsylvania (5th out of 50). Of course, those states have their own problems with voting. Many of these problems center around mail in ballots. That is no surprise. Maryland election officials have confirmed this past week that there has been a significant mail‑in ballot error affecting the June 2026 primary, prompting the statewide reissuance of…

The following is a letter from Rosalind Hanson, a Montgomery County Parent and Moms for Liberty Chapter Chair regarding the use of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Lessons in Montgomery County Classrooms. She spoke to the Montgomery County Board of Education at Thursday afternoon’s meeting. The link to the video is included at the end of the article. Good afternoon, board members and Superintendent Taylor. My name is Rosalind Hanson. As you may know, recently, the Southern Poverty Law Center was federally indicted on eleven counts of wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering. The evidence? They funneled nearly three million dollars of donor…

A little over two years since Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapsed after being struck by the Dali container ship, Maryland has fired the main contractor, Kiewit, a corporation out of Nebraska. The firm is known for taking on large, complicated construction projects. This was just a few weeks after Moore had bragged about how well the rebuild was going. Initially projected as costing between $1.7 to $1.9 billion, the estimate was later adjusted to over $5 billion. The completion date was also moved to no earlier than 2028. The Maryland Transportation Authority, who originally made the estimate, said they did so…

The Justice Department Civil Rights Division launched investigations into 36 Illinois School Districts for teaching sexual orientation and gender ideology (SOGI) content in grades pre-K-12 classes. The focus of the investigations will be on whether the districts included these gender ideology and sexual orientation in lessons without notifying parents of their right to opt out of such instruction. The investigations also focus on whether the Illinois School Districts limit access to single-sex intimate spaces (such as bathrooms and locker rooms) and girls’ sports teams based on biological sex. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights…

This is our final version of the BAD BILLS summary that we have published since February 2026. We thank the author of this information! (For more on any bill, go to mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite) This week’s addition and the bill PASSED: SB949 — Election Law – Absentee Ballots – State and Federal Requirements Status: The Senate version passed both chambers and is now heading to the Governor’s desk This bill was introduced by Democrats as a fail-safe, in case the Supreme Court rules in favor of the RNC in Watson v. Republican National Committee. If the Supreme Court rules in favor of…

Mayor Blames Allegations On Racism Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott has a problem. The Baltimore City Office of the Inspector General, led by Isabel Mercedes Cumming, released a Feb. 25, 2026 report finding extensive spending on food, office parties and flowers during the review period July 1, 2022 − Nov. 17, 2025. The report highlights questionable spending, lack of oversight, and resistance to transparency particularly within the Baltimore Mayor’s Office. Over $800,000 was spent on food and catering between July 2022 and November 2025 by Mayor’s Office staff. $52,588.78 was spent on food and beverages in luxury stadium suites at…

Town Runs The Financial Numbers On Different Police Coverage As a longtime resident of Oxford, I understand what many Oxford citizens are going through right now. For decades, we had a dedicated Oxford Police Department headed by good men like Wally Jones, Jim Borga, and Pat Maxwell. These were Chiefs/Officers you could rely on to keep our town safe and to address many different kinds of local law enforcement calls from barking dog complaints, drunk driver arrests, and serious crime. They were available 24/7. Unfortunately, in 2023, Commissioners Brian Wells, Jim Jaramillo, and Tom Costigan, on the advice of Town…