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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The first piece of the collapsed bridge removed over the weekend was roughly the size of the Statue of Liberty
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EPA is monitoring hazardous materials from the ship and impacted cargo, says there doesn’t appear to be any in the Patapsco River Friday afternoon. -
Authorities believe the remaining vehicles and bodies are trapped within the structure of the bridge that fell, and it’s unsafe for divers to enter that -
Revenue from new 11% tax would go to Maryland trauma system, and in particular Shock Trauma in Baltimore. -
Tolls haven’t risen in a decade, and House Democratic leaders say that has left a huge hole in the state transportation budget. -
Contrasting spending plans will dominate the action in Annapolis for the rest of the month. -
Lawmakers adjourned for the year April 8th -
Governor’s budget proposal for upcoming fiscal year doesn’t raise taxes — but storm clouds loom for future years as House Democrats begin talking proposals. -
House of Delegates on Thursday approved a bill requiring refill stations in any new building large enough to require a water fountain. -
House approved changes with near unanimous but reluctant support from Democrats.
