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Dan Rodricks' Baltimore 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, ...

While low pay and many systemic issues remain, Inspector General Isabel Cumming’s new report finds “substantial difference and visible progress in DPW’s preparation for extreme heat.” ...

Kathy Klausmeier's non-reappointment of IG Kelly Madigan Interim Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier declines to reappoint Baltimore County Inspector General Kelly Madigan, whose ...

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

The administration’s campaign to defang the county’s “waste and fraud” watchdog will come to a head tonight when the Council votes on whether to approve Kathy Klausmeier’s pick for inspector general.

Klausmeier admits defeat, says she will not advance a new nominee and Kelly Madigan will remain the county’s corruption watchdog.

Latest flash point in the inspector general saga – the $218,000-a-year salary the Klausmeier administration is offering its IG nominee.

Khadija Walker lives in Fredericksburg, Va. – another indication that she has little knowledge of, or commitment, to the Baltimore County job she was nominated for, critics say.

Kathy Klausmeier’s candidate to replace Kelly Madigan pledges to make the five-hour journey “every day” and answers other questions, including how she’d handle possible wrongdoing by an elected ...

The chaotic gunfight made headlines in 2021, but resulted in only one serious injury, whose cost is now coming due.