Energy, Agriculture & Environment
The Baltimore Banner: If Maryland can’t revive one Eastern Shore river, can it save the bay? (July 2026), An energy mogul begged Moore to back his data center complex. It worked. (June 2026), Maryland Democrats turned Exelon into a punching bag. The real fight is just starting.(April 2026),As power bills surge, Exelon and Constellation vie for influence in Annapolis (January 2026), Trump comes for the oysters, slashing budget of Maryland hatchery that produces billions (December 2025), As the Chesapeake Bay enters a new era, it’s fighting for relevance (December 2025), The hidden cost of saving the Chesapeake Bay: millions for private waterfronts (October 2025), Is offshore wind doomed in Maryland? (September 2025), In Baltimore’s hottest new race, ‘experience the suffering of the world we’ve created’ (July 2025), Meet the environmentalist defending Baltimore’s polluting trash incinerator (March 2025), Maryland has a ‘dire’ energy problem. Or does it? (March 2025), The world wants American coal. Curtis Bay residents say they pay the price. (June 2024), How giant cargo ships transformed the Port of Baltimore — and raised new risks (March 2024)
Fargo Forum: US coal plants slashed their mercury emissions. North Dakota accounts for a big share of what remains (March 2022) / 2021 was North Dakota’s 5th warmest year on record (January 2022) / Century-old ranchland study yields new data on climate change, evolution of North Dakota’s native prairie (January 2022) / North Dakota’s largest wind farm slated for county with anti-renewables rules (January 2022) / Massive Midwest pipeline, a test for North Dakota’s carbon capture goals, hits landowner snags (December 2021) / Coal counties ask North Dakota to pump brakes on $1.8 billion hydrogen project (December 2021) / Dams were already killing North Dakota’s cottonwood trees. Climate change could hasten their decline. (October 2021) / North Dakota ranchers work through hard times amid historic drought (August 2021) / Burying carbon dioxide deep in North Dakota’s geology may combat climate change. Is it financially feasible? (August 2021) / North Dakota’s overshadowed solar industry imagines a different future (August 2021) / Carbon capture loans could leave North Dakota taxpayers on the hook for $250M (July 2021) / North Dakota lawmakers throw lifelines to the coal industry (May 2021) / In western North Dakota, oil workers try to survive hard times in a pandemic. (August 2020)
Politics
The Baltimore Banner: An energy mogul begged Moore to back his data center complex. It worked. (June 2026), As power bills surge, Exelon and Constellation vie for influence in Annapolis (January 2025), Maryland wanted to make poor areas greener. It boosted a rich Baltimore neighborhood instead. (May 2025), Chaos and fear: Inside Trump’s attack on environmental justice in the mid-Atlantic (March 2025), Trump’s DOGE came for NOAA. Fired staff fear the worst is still to come. (March 2025), In quest to shrink Baltimore City Council, it’s David Smith, not politics, on the ballot (September 2024), As opioid deaths plague Baltimore, the city’s strategy is silence (August 2024), Fire unions backed the mayor’s reelection. Now he wants to boost their pension (August 2024), Nick Mosby was a rising star. Will voters give him a chance at redemption? (May 2024)
Fargo Forum: Confronting criticism, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum reflects on pivotal pandemic decisions (December 2020)
Politico Magazine: This liberal sports radio host thinks he can take down Mitch McConnell (March 2018)
Texas Tribune: Chip Roy helped Ted Cruz agitate in the U.S. Senate. Now he has brought those tactics to the House. (July 2019) / “I’m not sorry”: A quarter-century later, Eddie Bernice Johnson stands by her crime bill vote (July 2019) / U.S. House passes $4.5 billion border aid bill amid mounting concern over detained migrant children (June 2019)
COVID-19
Fargo Forum: North Dakota health officials stymied by vaccine resisters amid COVID-19 delta surge (September 2021) / North Dakota baby’s near fatal fight with COVID-19 signals new risk to children (September 2021) / ‘Vaccine hesitancy’ takes hold in western North Dakota, threatening herd immunity (April 2020) / After months with no state-wide mask mandate, why did North Dakota finally get one? (November 2020) / How Minot became the COVID-19 capital of North Dakota (November 2020) / Burgum praises patchwork of local mask mandates as North Dakota reaches doorstep of 500 deaths (October 2020)