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Under Armour lost $200M last year and says Trump tariffs add uncertainty this year

Hayes Gardner

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Crabpots stacked alongside a marina in Crisfield.

Tariffs and labor shortages threaten to crack Maryland’s crab industry

Point Dume clinches a win during the Black-Eyed Susan races at Pimlico Race Course in 2024.

The price of Preakness: a $500 million state infusion, a $5 million annual fee

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 02: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a “Make America Wealthy Again” trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025 in Washington, DC. Touting the event as “Liberation Day”, Trump announced additional tariffs targeting goods imported to the U.S. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Six history lessons as the original Pimlico prepares for its final Preakness

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Maryland public media outlets brace for federal funding cuts after Trump executive order

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Carla Hayden let Lizzo play a Founding Father’s flute. Is that why Trump fired her?

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GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

Baltimore’s top YIMBYs want to erase zoning rules blocking more housing

Emily Opilo and Hallie Miller

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott holds a press conference announcing the Housing Options and Opportunity Act at City Hall on Monday.

Movie showings resume at Columbia’s Snowden theater — for now

Lillian Reed

May 9, 2025

The former Cinemark theater in Columbia is slated to open again by Phoenix Theatres on May 9, according to a sign on the building.

Local workforce development organization falls victim to Trump cuts

Bria Overs

May 8, 2025

Jennifer Dewees, president of MCCEI, speaks at the first Annual Maryland Tradeswomen Summit in March.

PHILANTHROPY AND NONPROFITS

Bob Embry, who shaped Baltimore philanthropy, retiring from Abell Foundation

Alissa Zhu

Updated May 11, 2025

Robert C. Embry Jr., President of the foundation, is stepping down from his post.

Maryland nonprofits and volunteers ‘devastated’ after AmeriCorps abruptly ends service

Bria Overs

Updated May 2, 2025

Gov. Wes Moore celebrated Volunteer Maryland’s 30th anniversary during an AmeriCorps service event at the Baltimore Community ToolBank in Baltimore City on March 17, 2023.

Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR

Associated Press

May 2, 2025

President Trump has asked the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to cease federal funding to NPR and PBS.

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REAL ESTATE

Baltimore’s top YIMBYs want to erase zoning rules blocking more housing

Emily Opilo and Hallie Miller

For sale: Mid-century modern-inspired home that backs up to the Loch Raven Reservoir

Jason Freeman

May 10, 2025

For sale: Luxurious home with beautiful backyard in Clarksville

Jason Freeman

May 8, 2025

HARBORPLACE

Iconic, but Gen X: Are Harborplace’s pavilions worth a preservation fight?

Giacomo Bologna

Nov 8, 2024

A conceptual drawing of the proposed Harborplace plans showed a potential aerial view of the Inner Harbor on a sunny day.

Why the fight over Baltimore’s Inner Harbor could drag on for years

Giacomo Bologna

Nov 6, 2024

Voters on Tuesday approved a plan to allow residential development at Harborplace. That’s not the end of the story.

Harborplace vote favors residential development in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor

Giacomo Bologna

Nov 6, 2024

Attendants of a press conference held by MCB Real Estate stand by an illustration of revealed design plans for the upcoming Harborplace development, at the Light Street pavilion on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023 in Baltimore, MD.

Tariffs and labor shortages threaten to crack Maryland’s crab industry

MARC Penn Line canceled Tuesday morning after massive fire in West Baltimore

A silver train that says "MARC" on the front rides down a train track.

As Baltimoreans start swimming in the harbor, water quality remains murky

Baltimore Banner reporter Giacomo "Jack" Bologna jumps into the Baltimore Harbor alongside other participants as a part of the Waterfront Partnership's Harbor Splash 2024 event held last June.

Dozens displaced by 7-alarm fire at West Baltimore warehouse

Baltimore firefighters battle a 4-alarm blaze at a warehouse at 2205 W Lanvale Street in West Baltimore Monday evening, May 12, 2025.

Ravens mock 2025 schedule: Dreaming up a slate with big games and high drama

A “Sunday Night Football” visit from the Detroit Lions, whom Lamar Jackson and the Ravens trounced in 2023, would be a blockbuster beginning to the season.

JOBS AND CAREERS

Maryland loses 550 AmeriCorps positions to Trump administration cuts

Bria Overs

May 8, 2025

Alexandria Warrick Adams, executive director of Elev8 Baltimore, said at a Thursday press conference that Maryland communities and children will feel the effects of AmeriCorps cuts.

Federal workers are hunting for new jobs: ‘It’s incredibly saturated’

Prachi Vashisht

May 5, 2025

An unusually high number of Black Baltimoreans identify as entrepreneurs

Giacomo Bologna

Apr 29, 2025

New research shows that a quarter of residents in Baltimore and Baltimore County describe themselves as entrepreneurs.

SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

It’s tick season and there is a new bugger catching a ride in Baltimore

Meredith Cohn

May 10, 2025

Close up photo of adult female deer tick crawling on piece of straw.

Thousands of Marylanders used this site to track their vaccinations. Now it’s gone.

Meredith Cohn

May 2, 2025

FILE - A patient is given a flu vaccine at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. As Americans head into the late 2022 holiday season, a rapidly intensifying flu season is straining hospitals already overburdened with patients sick from other respiratory infections.

Federal cuts have been brutal for Johns Hopkins. Here’s how its endowment can help.

Ellie Wolfe

Apr 30, 2025

Business

Under Armour lost $200M last year and says Trump tariffs add uncertainty this year

Tariffs and labor shortages threaten to crack Maryland’s crab industry

The price of Preakness: a $500 million state infusion, a $5 million annual fee

US and China take a step back from sky-high tariffs, agree to pause for 90 days

Facing uncertainty at work? Here’s how you can prepare your finances

Six history lessons as the original Pimlico prepares for its final Preakness

Maryland public media outlets brace for federal funding cuts after Trump executive order

Carla Hayden let Lizzo play a Founding Father’s flute. Is that why Trump fired her?

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