Matt Bush
News DirectorMatt Bush spent 14 years in public radio prior to coming to WYPR as news director in October 2022. From 2008 to 2016, he worked at Washington D.C.’s NPR affiliate, WAMU, where he was the station’s Maryland reporter. He covered the Maryland General Assembly for six years (alongside several WYPR reporters in the statehouse radio bullpen) as well as both Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties.
From 2016 until March 2022, Matt was the news director at Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR) in Asheville, North Carolina. He and his team won 21 Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas awards in his last four years at BPR. Those were the station’s first such awards in its more than 40-year history. He also produced the station’s three podcasts, The Porch, The Waters & Harvey Show and Going Deep: Sports in the 21st Century. @MattBushMD
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On October 1st, victims can no longer be charged with list of crimes including prostitution. -
Two bills passed by the General Assembly deal with contracts colleges and universities sign with apps and the expert content provided on them. -
With Anti-Semitism in particular on the rise, legislators approved letting victims sue their attackers. -
Tighter storage requirements, longer jail sentences for possessing a gun illegally, and bans on certain individuals receiving a concealed carry permit also passed the General Assembly -
The bill sets limits on where permit holders can take their weapons, banning them from ‘special purpose areas’ like hospitals, government buildings, schools and bars. -
Drug test results that show fentanyl will be sent — with names and personal information redacted — to the Maryland Department of Health. -
Supporters of the change say it’s needed to modernize the profession. -
The bills position Maryland in direct opposition to Republican-led states on both issues, including one of its neighboring states. -
As mail-in voting gets increasingly popular, lawmakers OK’d making it easier to ‘cure’ such ballots, while also trying to speed up how they’re counted. -
The Maryland Attorney General’s office can now prosecute police-involved killings, as well as investigate alleged civil rights violations.
