In the first public statement by a county councilman, the 2nd District Democrat urges County Executive Klausmeier to scrap her plan to conduct an open search for a new IG.

The county’s first inspector general, whose investigations angered many powerful politicians, is put on notice that her term is over, The Brew has learned. UPDATED.

Three Best of Show awards were among the website’s more than two dozen stories honored last Friday by the regional press association.

The Brew and Baltimore Sun argued that the city ethics board violated the Maryland Public Information Act by obscuring who gave money to help the elected officials fight a federal probe