Tasked with promoting civil rights and equity at Baltimore’s biggest civilian agency, Linda Batts says she was blocked, then terminated for “doing her job.”

The administration’s latest assault on the city’s corruption watchdog doesn’t hold up to legal scrutiny and raises a harsh question: what are they hiding? [OP-ED]

Scott Plank’s generosity to Democratic electeds – including $20,000 to the party’s Senate caucus committee – came ahead of the Baltimore Board of Estimates’ approval yesterday of a $17.9 million lease deal.

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 says.