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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Measure offered tax credits to businesses to participate in pilot program that offered employees four-day work week with no cut in pay. -
The Attorney General's office already does investigations, and supporters say letting them do any prosecutions is next logical step. -
Bills in General Assembly would change timeframe to file workers compensation claim, potentially allowing more to do so. -
A measure that Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed last year is back in Maryland General Assembly this year with hopes new Gov. Wes Moore will approve it. -
Electric vehicles were allowed in HOV lanes through last September, and Maryland General Assembly is working to allow that again. -
Major potential change to state law comes as report into abuse within Archdiocese of Baltimore is to go public. -
Gov. Wes Moore appointed Lt. Col. Roland Butler as the new Maryland State Police superintendent.
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Secretary of new state office of Service and Civic Innovation would carry out the program, which the Maryland General Assembly must still fund. -
Baltimore City State's Attorney Ivan Bates campaigned and won on increasing penalties for illegal gun ownership as a way to lower the homicide rate in the city. -
Measure says subsequent DUI’s can be for either operating a car or boat under the influence.
