The Board of Estimates – including Leach herself, filling in for Mayor Scott – approved the spending as part of a larger contract awarded to a small D.C. consulting firm.

Some had hoped the Baltimore Planning Commission might amend Mayor Brandon Scott’s sweeping zoning deregulation bill – even a bit – to make it more palatable to community leaders who have been ...

Reutter has been reporting and writing on Baltimore since 1970, when he started as a 19-year-old summer intern covering cops for The Evening Sun. He worked on a wide range of beats for the Sunpapers, ...