MARYLAND

COMMISSIONER SEARCH: Members of the Baltimore City Council are in Fort Worth, Texas, to gather background information on Joel Fitzgerald, Mayor Pugh’s nominee to be police commissioner. They do not plan to speak with Fitzgerald.

BALTO. CO. SCHOOLS: A consultant’s report recommends that Baltimore County replace high schools in Towson and in Landsdowne. The county estimates that new high schools would cost more than $100 million each.