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Bowser's budget sidesteps DC layoffs but makes cuts to cover funding gap 05/27/2025 01:03pm • Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled Tuesday her 2026 D.C. budget proposal, along with a supplemental 2025 budget proposal, which avoids tax increases and government layoffs but eliminates or alters some programs involving social services. The proposals address a funding gap created by Congress and look to From big cuts to big payments for a new stadium, Bowser to reveal two important budgets for DC 05/26/2025 07:45pm • On Tuesday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will unveil not only her proposed FY-2026 budget for the city, but also her supplemental 2025 budget that will outline where hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts will be made from the current budget. Delays in turning over the budgets to the D.C. Counci New poll shows Spanberger with 17-point lead over Earle-Sears 05/23/2025 09:24am • Former congresswoman and Democratic nominee for governor Abigail Spanberger fared better with voters than current lieutenant governor and Republican nominee Winsome Earle-Sears, according to a Roanoke College poll released Thursday showing Spanberger leading Earle-Sears 43%-26%. This follows anot DC mayor touts benefits of new Commanders stadium, but some residents remain skeptical 05/23/2025 04:54am • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser touted the economic benefits of a new Commanders stadium at the old RFK site at a community town hall in Ward 7 on Thursday night, calling it the fastest and surest route to help the city develop the land. During a two-hour community meeting at St. Coletta of Greater LitBox vending machine stocked full of books by DC-area authors 05/20/2025 05:59am • In 1884, Minneapolis��� William Henry Fruen patented the first vending machine in the United States, which would serve mineral water for a coin. Over the next 140-plus years, the vending machine has gone on to dispense sodas, snacks, sweets, iPads and even cars. Now, in D.C.���s Western Market Maryland senator expresses disappointment over Gov. Moore's veto of reparations bill 05/20/2025 04:47am • Maryland state Sen. C. Anthony Muse said it did not come as a surprise when Gov. Wes Moore, the state's first Black governor, vetoed a measure to study potential slavery reparations in the state. Moore said in a letter on Friday that "now is not the time for another study," citing multiple other Md. Gov. Moore vetoes reparations bill, one of a list of measures he will reject 05/16/2025 08:46pm • Gov. Wes Moore (D) announced Friday that he will veto the Reparations Commission bill that called for a study of historic inequality endured by African descendants in Maryland. The veto of a reparations measure by the only sitting Black governor in the nation was included a list of vetoes of bill Montgomery County Council set to approve $7.6B budget with 'unyielding commitment' to education, public safety 05/16/2025 04:56am • The Montgomery County Council held its "straw vote" on a $7.6 billion spending plan Thursday that includes $3.6 billion for education. The unanimous vote comes a week before the formal and final council vote on May 22. In a briefing with reporters, Montgomery County Council President Kate Stewar DC Council chair thinks city 'will reach a deal' to build Commanders stadium at RFK site 05/15/2025 11:31pm • The chair of the D.C. Council indicated Thursday that he believes negotiations to bring a new Washington Commanders stadium to the old RFK Stadium site will be successful, and that the council will approve a stadium deal. In an interview with WTOP's Nick Iannelli, D.C. Council Chair Phil Mendels Maryland loses coveted AAA bond rating 05/14/2025 02:51pm • Maryland lost its treasured ���triple triple-A��� bond rating Wednesday when a key bond-rating agency downgraded its assessment of the state���s creditworthiness to Aa1. The move by Moody���s ends more than three decades in which Maryland held the highest bond rating from the three rating agencie Trump budget cuts could push DC area into a recession, George Mason professor says 05/14/2025 09:47am • Proposed deep budget cuts from the Trump Administration and Republicans in Congress could push the D.C. area into a recession, especially if those reductions are enacted. Terry Clower, director of George Mason University's Center for Regional Analysis, told WTOP the region is not in a recession Montgomery County Council has a plan to fund schools and avoid a tax increase 05/13/2025 08:35pm • Montgomery County Council President Kate Stewart announced a plan that would cover nearly all of the $3.6 billion requested by the county school system in its 2026 budget while avoiding a tax hike. At a news conference Tuesday, Stewart said the council has agreed to tap into an employee retiremen Maryland officials, advocates fear impact of expected Medicaid cuts in House bill 05/13/2025 10:05am • State officials and health care advocates worry that many Marylanders on Medicaid could lose coverage under a recent proposal from congressional Republicans that aims to cut billions in federal dollars by tightening program eligibility and other administrative hurdles. While state officials are s Top solar questions for 2025 and beyond answered 05/12/2025 05:11pm • This content is sponsored by Solar Energy World. As heard on WTOP, meteorologist Wyatt Everhart, advisor for Solar Energy World, is answering some of the most pressing questions about shifting to solar power in 2025 in the new 5-part WTOP interview series below. Q1: What do you say to homeowne Md. lawmaker's bill would require large retailers to post tariff costs 05/10/2025 10:29am • Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin has introduced legislation that seeks to show consumers the extra costs they will have to pay due to tariffs implemented by President Donald Trump. The "Truth in Tariffs Act" would require large retailers to display the portion of an item's price that is attr