Port security gaps pose threat
The port of Baltimore - the nation's eighth-largest - suffers from significant security shortcomings, including gaps in fences, unattended gates, alarms and camera systems that don't work or exist, and...
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Hundreds gather to decry bus route changes
Baltimore-area residents turned out by the hundreds yesterday to vent their anger at state officials who are proposing a radical restructuring of Maryland Transit Administration bus routes. Emotions in the...
Sweeping revision of bus routes proposed
The Maryland Transit Administration's M12 bus route meanders through Baltimore County's Green Spring Valley - stopping here and there to let off a maid or a nanny outside the sprawling...
Security is made tighter at port
Under orders from the Coast Guard, the Maryland Port Administration is tightening its procedures for allowing access to its Baltimore marine terminals - barring even high state officials from entering...
ICC financing plan runs into Assembly snag
The Ehrlich administration's plan for financing construction of the Intercounty Connector highway is in trouble in the General Assembly, with leading legislators questioning its heavy reliance on borrowing. Defying warnings...
Thousands of Steffen e-mails released
The Ehrlich administration released 14,500 e-mails and other documents yesterday from former aide Joseph F. Steffen Jr., revealing a portrait of a political operative who had regular access to the...
Nature continues as hurdle for ICC
SILVER SPRING - The Good Hope tributary is a tiny stream through the woods of Montgomery County - no more than a few feet wide. In many spots, a reasonably...
EPA has objection to ICC route plan
Federal regulators are objecting to one of two proposed routes for a highway that Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has called his No. 1 transportation priority, finding that the state's...
Mayor asks inspection of Howard rail tunnel
Mayor Martin O'Malley called on the federal government yesterday to conduct a new emergency inspection of the Howard Street Tunnel -- site of a large derailment and fire in 2001...
Paving the way for ICC
Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. promised yesterday that the state would use the most advanced technology to build the proposed Intercounty Connector, insisting that the highway would cause minimal environmental...