Keithb Scott News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Leading mayoral candidates in Baltimore discuss education, crime, and perception of crime at the first major mayoral forum.

As the deadline winds down for candidates to file to run for office across Maryland on Feb. 9, several key races in Baltimore are taking shape ahead of the May 14 primary and Nov. 5 general election. Ten Democrats had entered the race for Baltimore mayor as of Friday, filling out a field that includes an elected incumbent mayor for the first time since Martin O’Malley ran for reelection 20 ...

I’m going to handicap the Mayor’s race for you.  It’s going to be one of the two candidates pictured above.  You can thank me later.  Baltimore needs and deserves so much more, but better candidates just aren’t willing to run.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott outraised his chief rival Sheila Dixon by about $150,000 last year, campaign finance reports filed Wednesday showed, expanding the incumbent mayor’s war chest as the campaign begins to heat up. The annual filings, which were due late Wednesday, showed Scott, a Democrat in his first term as mayor, raised $682,134 last year in his effort to maintain his seat. That ...

BALTIMORE — As Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is fond of telling people, it’s his 17th year in City Hall. First hired as a staffer under future Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake,