📊 NEW POLL IN THE BALTIMORE MAYOR’S RACE 📊

🔸 Scott: 40
🔸 Dixon: 32
🔸 Vignarajah: 11
🔸 Undecided: 10
🔸 Wallace: 3

Poll by Goucher College/The Baltimore Banner; Article by Hallie Miller

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New gun laws: Maryland stripped civil immunity from the firearms industry, banned Glock switches and set up a center to study gun violence as a public health crisis. ⁦The Baltimore Banner⁩ thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

It was one last busy day of lawmaking in Annapolis. Here’s what legislators did before midnight. w/Pamela Wood

uly captured some great pictures. How did he get this fist-bump photo?

ICYMI: The General Assembly settled on consequences for youths ages 10-12 charged with stealing cars and possessing firearms.

A handful of Democrats disagreed. Here's what they had to say as they explained their nay votes.
The Baltimore Banner

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Gov. Moore wasn’t quite sure he heard his chief of staff correctly when he got the call telling him the Key Bridge had collapsed.

“What do you mean by ‘gone?’” he remembered asking.

Pamela Wood and I asked him what else he remembered in the moments and hours that followed.

Happy sine die! The seersucker caucus is well represented in the House Judiciary Committee. It’s a tradition to break out the spring suit for the last day of lawmaking.

L to R: Dels. Bouchat, Simmons, Phillips, Schmidt, Tomlinson, Taylor and Roberson.

An uplifting bipartisan tale on this sine die, by ⁦⁦Pamela Wood⁩ .

From Del. Chris Tomlinson: “We’re all kind of going through this together, regardless of our background, regardless of our party.” thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

Is there even a men’s tournament this year? I haven’t been paying attention.

There’s another game in town. Lawmakers play a weekly ball game after floor sessions, bonding, keeping fit and blowing off steam. Pamela Wood had a center-court seat.

Fascinating and close-up look of the complex recovery efforts of clearing Key Bridge wreckage, from Krishna Sharma .

The General Assembly floor sessions are typically pretty staid. Pamela Wood and I caught a glimpse of levity in each chamber this week. There’s 3 days left before sine die, folks.

How do you find out what’s in the Maryland state budget compromise?

You get in this line of lobbyists and journalists trying to get their hands on -paper- documents dropped on a table at the conference committee meeting.

Or, just read my story later in The Baltimore Banner.

Can confirm. Proud to share the press table with you, William J. Ford .

Churchill Downs is stress testing the state's plan to take over Pimlico, Pamela Wood has the story.

Super PAC $$ has entered Maryland's 3rd Congressional race. AIPAC -funded United Democracy Project bought a TV ad for candidate and state Sen. Sarah Elfreth.

The group used media content available on her campaign website.

Stick around until the end to read about 'red boxing.'

💰 Maryland budget news 💰

The House of Delegates & the state Senate have reached an agreement on the state budget after being at loggerheads for a few weeks. We don't know yet what it looks like, including which fees/taxes may be going up. Stay tuned for details this afternoon.

Last year, Baltimore Police say they began collecting evidence connecting 20 youths — ages 12-17 — to more than 60 incidents. Traced all the youths back to the same West Baltimore home. “Like a clubhouse,” Comm. Worley said. ⁦Story: Justin Fenton⁩ thebaltimorebanner.com/community/crim…

Advice Hillary Clinton gave Gov. Moore weeks before he was elected: know your state’s emergency protocols — just in case a bridge collapses after you’re elected, she told him during a video call/fundraiser. ⁦Pamela Wood⁩ was there taking notes. thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

With days left in the session, lawmakers are rushing to pass legislation to help workers and businesses affected by the port shutdown. ⁦Pamela Wood⁩ has the latest on the bill’s progress. thebaltimorebanner.com/maryland/maryl…

New: Two men died recently in the Baltimore jail system, marking 3 deaths in the span of one month. Attorney for Edward Bentley said he died after surgery, cited state correx dept's ongoing healthcare struggles. 'We have to do better.'
w/ Dylan Segelbaum thebaltimorebanner.com/community/crim…