Pamela Wood

"It’s hard to hide when you’re a tropical bird with a beak like a baking spoon, feathers the color of Pepto-Bismol, and laser-beam eyes." Great tale about roseate spoonbills from @rkobell, Jerry Jackson & Florence Shen: thebaltimorebanner.com/community/clim…

Gov. Moore is tapping a former high-ranking Army officer who commanded Fort George G. Meade to be the state’s next secretary of veterans and military families. buff.ly/wlJTo5k

UPDATE: Maryland's soon-to-be secretary of veterans and military families, Ed Rothstein, tells me he wants to improve mental health supports for vets and build a proposed second state veterans home in Sykesville. thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

Maryland's new secretary of veterans and military families: Ed Rothstein. Rothstein is currently a (Republican) Carroll County commissioner and previously was garrison commander of Fort Meade. He's a retired Army colonel. thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

Why is underground Baltimore burning? City Council hearing yields no answer. buff.ly/IEnJzst

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's team responds to critics on how he handled reparations. The latest from me and @WintrodeBrenda: thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

How a daring audit sparked Maryland’s reckoning over police custody deaths buff.ly/MwPlq0v

The Banner is expanding beyond the greater Baltimore region. Find us in Montgomery County starting this fall⤵️

Remember how Gov. Wes Moore vetoed lawmakers’ reparations bill this year? Turns out there was more to that story. Lawmakers told us the governor wanted to put his own stamp on it. tinyurl.com/2ke4cxcj By @pwoodreporter & me @BaltimoreBanner

Before Maryland Gov. Wes Moore vetoed studying reparations for the state’s role in slavery and discrimination, he had privately drawn up his own order to create a study commission. @WintrodeBrenda & I take you behind the scenes in Annapolis: thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

Annapolis nonprofit formed in Navy sailor’s honor educates about military suicide, sexual assault buff.ly/DqH5Lvt

Records show that Maryland officials have known about the existence of this lost cemetery since at least the 1970s. Yet the graves of more than 100 Black children remain abandoned, mostly unmarked and deteriorating in an overgrown forest. Read here: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/…

Late Navy corpsman Danny Buck's legacy lives on in Annapolis through a nonprofit dedicated to educating about sexual assault and suicide in the military. For @BaltimoreBanner: thebaltimorebanner.com/community/loca…

Some Baltimore solid waste workers didn't realize they had access to health insurance, so why not automatically sign them up? It was a simple solution to a simple problem, or so Bill Henry thought. But nothing is ever simple in Baltimore. thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

A former aide to a Maryland state senator agreed to serve 4 weekends in jail in order to be granted probation before judgement on charges she redirected $20K of scholarship money to herself. She also paid the money back to the state. thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

Maryland's state government is promising to make it easier to apply for benefits like SNAP, WIC and other programs. There's a new website with a single application for multiple programs. More details: thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

For years, Scott Plank has been pitching his Canton heliport as a new home for Foxtrot, Baltimore's police helicopter fleet. Now money for the project has appeared in the state budget although the city never asked for it (w/@justin_fenton & @Invisibae) thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

A lot of great resources here on how to be prepared to help someone overdosing.

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen promised to fight to keep the future FBI HQ in Greenbelt. Yesterday he got an early victory in what could be a long battle. My colleague @WintrodeBrenda explains what went down in the Senate: thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

Van Hollen wins first budget skirmish to hold onto Maryland FBI headquarters buff.ly/M5tIF0P