Tom Pelton

Facing bankruptcy or plummeting test scores, more than 40 school districts nationally have been taken over since 1994 - and while parents are often outraged, school systems have sometimes received...

To help understand the Baltimore school system's financial crisis, consider the following analogy: A man has been spending beyond his means for years, borrowing money to keep a roof over...

An independent audit that cost taxpayers $35,000 last year uncovered almost none of the $20,000 that federal prosecutors say former Baltimore Police Commissioner Edward T. Norris illegally spent from a...

Members of the Baltimore City Council lashed out at the city's ethics director last night for criticizing their hiring of relatives and receiving gifts from companies doing business with the...

Baltimore City Council President Sheila Dixon said yesterday that she will fire her sister as a council assistant to comply with a local ethics law, a move that comes as...

Mayor Martin O'Malley and the city's law department have raised concerns about a proposal to strengthen the city's ethics laws, saying it may go too far by requiring an additional...

As it debates strengthening the city's ethics laws, the Baltimore City Council is considering a grandfather clause that would allow six of its members to continue employing their adult children...