Inspector general calls on court to force @mayorbmscott.bsky.social administration to comply with its subpoenas. tinyurl.com/bddb2trn In an amended complaint, IG Isabel Mercedes Cumming asks how her office can root out fraud and waste . . . if it cannot access city records?

Flying low, loud and . . . A LOT: tinyurl.com/mrx72jp9 The increase in low-flying tourist and police helicopters over Baltimore is endangering public safety. The FAA needs to act. [OP-ED] @mayorbmscott.bsky.social

Workers at the first MOMs Organic Market to unionize now being paid less than staffers at non-unionized MOM's locations? tinyurl.com/5cb8znpc Ex-employees say pay disparities and harsh policies at the busy Hampden location belie the chain's high-minded core values.

TV tower owners (WBAL, WJZ and WMAR) and contractor to pay $2M after raining lead paint flakes on neighborhood. tinyurl.com/4n6r6c4e Settlement reveals owners knew the north Baltimore structure contained lead-based paint, but then hired an unaccredited company to repaint it.

Unionized workers at the Hampden MOM's Organic Market decry pay discrimination. tinyurl.com/5cb8znpc They say giving them lower weekend pay and fewer paid holidays than non-unionized MOM's locations, doesn’t jibe with the chain’s high-minded core values.

Security guards working for city contractor set to strike tomorrow. tinyurl.com/4xfb5eje Abacus Corp. employees plan to rally in front of Baltimore City Hall on Thursday as part of their walkout.

In Baltimore, "low bidders" often return to the Board of Estimates seeking millions to finish the project. tinyurl.com/2kuabvxu A proposed charter change would end competitive bidding. But what would replace it?

. @zekecohen.bsky.social won’t support Mark Conway's bill to restore Inspector General Isabel Cumming's access to records ... that @mayorbmscott.bsky.social abruptly curtailed earlier this year. tinyurl.com/2kuabvxu

Citing a history of stormwater violations, the @chesapeakebayfdn.bsky.social urges Baltimore to deny a stormwater waiver for the Johns Hopkins University's DSAI project. tinyurl.com/3mjdn7n3 "What they're doing is clearly not working."

[email protected] says IG Cumming’s request for records access is illegal and her suit should be thrown out. tinyurl.com/47b9mztm Faced with a subpoena seeking documents about one of his programs, he argues the OIG’s subpoena powers only apply to entities outside city government.

Councilman Mark Conway is introducing a bill to give Inspector General Cumming back her access to city records tinyurl.com/2kkz2m7d Why did @mayorbmscott.bsky.social curtail her powers? “Where there’s smoke there’s fire – my hope is the fire's not someone in the mayor’s office pulling strings."

In Baltimore, for No Kings day, thousands of protesters turned out, denouncing Donald Trump with expletives, chiding him with Thomas Paine and Mr. Rogers quotes and using the President's own rude words: "Quiet, Piggy!" to rebuke him. tinyurl.com/3t4aea3b

Paula Hollinger, former state senator who fought for women’s reproductive rights, dies at 85. tinyurl.com/yveha7ft Barely taller than Barbara Mikulski but, similarly, wielding big influence, Hollinger represented Baltimore County for nearly 30 years in Annapolis.

Developer Seawall, extending its reach to the Jones Falls, is chided for leaving much of Baltimore out. tinyurl.com/jhxdz4n9 Does uplifting a city waterway mean eateries & apartments? At an otherwise convivial meeting, some raw moments around development, gentrification and race.

Trying to get in front of a hot-button issue that’s dogged him, CP Zeke Cohen calls for a 1-year ban on data centers. www.baltimorebrew.com/2026/03/24/t... Some say Baltimore's already behind other jurisdictions and needn't wait a year, but shd put strict zoning restrictions on these facilities now.

A world-class performance once again, at Baltimore’s 35-year-old jazz mecca, Caton Castle. tinyurl.com/3sy56ss2 Joining saxophone veteran Bobby Watson: trumpeter Sean Jones, bassist Curtis Lundy, pianist Jordan Williams and drummer Eric Kennedy. #theyblewthedoorsoff

Despite Scott administration redactions, IG Cumming was able to confirm a Baltimore youth diversion program paid thousand$ in fraudulent invoices and committed a data breach releasing 700 names, many of them juveniles, to a city employee's relative's gmail tinyurl.com/46cmdybf

Baltimore County Council repeals pension bill denounced by the public as self-dealing. tinyurl.com/y9vc9kmh In an election year, the furor over what was viewed as a cushy “golden parachute” had lawmakers doing an abrupt about-face.

Poised to undo their pension grab, but pretending that’s not what it was. tinyurl.com/4aknnbnb In an election year, there’s an extra measure of false framing and finger-pointing ahead of the vote on the Baltimore County Council’s agenda tonight. [OP-ED]

Tests confirm another lead-paint-flaking bridge in Baltimore, the 4th now identified in Maryland tinyurl.com/y342wbjm It’s a JFX off-ramp above Clipper Mill Rd near the spot where similar orange chips - reported to the city by The Brew a month ago - are still littering Falls Rd and the Jones Falls.

Hot take: All housing “units” are not of equal societal value. Each affordable home built in an exclusionary, high opportunity n-hood is a platform for econ mobility worth 2x or 3x another market rate unit. OR another subsidized unit in an isolated high poverty n-hood www.stlmag.com/news/solutio...

Incinerator shutdown, needed for maintenance, will slow Baltimore trash collection tinyurl.com/34yhupe8 Expect slower pick-up, and longer wait times at DPW facilities, with garbage diverted to the Quarantine Road Landfill through Saturday.

Maxed-out Baltimore sewage plant triggers development moratorium in Anne Arundel County. tinyurl.com/4sfpbc97 The Patapsco plant can’t accept any more county sewage, resulting in a development cut-off affecting parts of northernwestern Anne Arundel.

Sisson St.Task Force voted on Saturday to eventually close Baltimore’s most-used trash facility. The @mayorbmscott.bsky.social-appointed panel paves the way for Seawall to acquire the city-owned property tinyurl.com/epfekjvd Nearly 400 pro/con emails (like this 👇) received, but no tally was released

Before city approves license plate reader contract for @baltimorepolice.bsky.social, residents speak against it. tinyurl.com/9ek27enz “We’re dealing with two community members killed by BPD ... now we’re giving them more tools to harass people?”

Lawmakers tour that garbage pile sitting at a DOT facility. tinyurl.com/4k5fys8x With the Falls Rd gate left open, private haulers have been dumping clandestinely at night and Baltimore city trucks have been dumping there, too. How this was allowed to go on for months remains “a mystery.”

A dangerous expansion of @baltimorepolice.bsky.social license plate reader capability is flying in under the radar on today's BOE agenda. tinyurl.com/5n85jh5 As we did with another surveillance tool, the spy plane, Baltimore should shoot it down. [OP-ED]

Two more bridges are confirmed to be shedding lead paint flakes, including an I-95 overpass which is dropping them on the Baltimore County community of Halethorpe, says @bluewaterbaltimore.bsky.social, which had the orange flakes independently tested. tinyurl.com/mryv92rc

Despite months of complaints, a big trash pile on city-owned property near the Jones Falls remains tinyurl.com/mssznvm5 No explanation from the @mayorbmscott.bsky.social administration as to why it hasn't been cleaned up and why City trucks, as well as private haulers, have been dumping there.

Remembering Baltimore Mayor McKeldin, an extinct species: the moderate-to-liberal Republican. tinyurl.com/57pkkm4u Researching his latest play took @danrodricks.bsky.social back to the days of a different GOP.

Delegates @RyanforMaryland and @DelegateStewart have introduced a bipartisan bill in Annapolis to clarify that local inspector generals are not bound by restrictions in the MPIA, as claimed by Baltimore City and Montgomery County. tinyurl.com/h4jvy9az

Describing "nauseating" sewage backups erupting in their basements recently, Baltimore residents demand the city follow an EPA order to expand a reimbursement program needed by thousands like them who suffer from the city's failure to fix its system. tinyurl.com/y5zbtxzf

The Baltimore mayor’s office spent over $890,000 on food, parties and flowers, new Baltimore IG report finds - including a $7,055 farewell party for a top staffer who then decided NOT to leave and remains on the payroll as a $190,000/yr senior advisor. tinyurl.com/2n68ejts @mayorbmscott.bsky.social

With still no action plan or health advice provided by Maryland or Baltimore after hazardous lead paint was found flaking off a city bridge, we look to Connecticut, which acted quickly and comprehensively after the same thing happened there in 2023. tinyurl.com/5n7k7ass @mayorbmscott.bsky.social

Unprecedented: Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming sues @mayorbmscott.bsky.social over records access. tinyurl.com/6vr34kah An IG has never before challenged the mayor in court, but Cumming says today’s lawsuit is essential to preserve the independence and integrity of her office.

Maryland files lawsuit to block construction of an @ICEgov detention center outside Hagerstown. tinyurl.com/5d4py63z The Williamsport facility would serve as the new “ICE Baltimore Detention Facility” with 1,500 beds.

A new state mandate requires jurisdictions to permit accessory dwelling units - Baltimore is making a mess of it. tinyurl.com/r7r4vtwn Why is the @mayorbmscott.bsky.social administration’s controversial zoning bill 25-0066 at odds with Maryland housing legislation passed a year ago? [OP-ED]

Mid-Atlantic mega-storm is . . . mild-mannered in Baltimore. tinyurl.com/5587s32y

UPDATE - @BaltimoreDPW responds, saying reports that the Back River sewage treatment plant has been overwhelmed with biosolids and has been releasing partially treated sewage into the river are not accurate. tinyurl.com/32fvd83p

Those orange paint chips that fell from the 28th Street Bridge that Baltimore officials said are of no concern? They ARE lead paint, the state confirms. tinyurl.com/3ar25ekc Maryland Dept. of the Environment finds lead levels 36 times the standard limit. Violation issued, clean-up ordered.

The stinky smell is worse than ever, the red pollution warning light keeps flashing and insiders say sewage sludge is backing up and clogging the Back River treatment plant once again. tinyurl.com/dpj86xf9 Documents show they stopped processing the bio-solids there months ago.

[email protected], joining area inspectors general, supports the Baltimore IG’s records access fight. “Our members rely on clear, consistent access to public information to inform residents about how government operates and how public resources are used." www.baltimorebrew.com/2026/02/17/m...

Looks like @baltimoresun.bsky.social readers may see more AI-produced news stories like the ones published last week that @baltsunguild.bsky.social quickly denounced as SLOP. tinyurl.com/yaafhvd8 Sun management: "To ignore this powerful tool would be a mistake.”

Offered at Council work session: amendments and arguments to allay concerns about Baltimore zoning bill. tinyurl.com/59h9stks “An appeasement effort,” one opponent said. Stop ignoring “Black homeowners in legacy neighborhoods," Council Vice Chair Sharon Green Middleton said, to big applause.

A non-binding "summary, nothing more," that "could have been written by a 2nd year law student." tinyurl.com/5b7yavzu That's what AG Anthony Brown says about the "advice letter" used by the @mayorbmscott.bsky.social administration to restrict Inspector General Cumming's access to documents.

Maryland Supreme Court to hear anti-SLAPP lawsuit filed by Clipper Mill residents against two developers. At issue: Can people hit with a lawsuit found to be a malicious attempt to shut them up collect damages? www.baltimorebrew.com/2026/02/12/m...

Inspector General Isabel Cumming reveals her fight with the @mayorbmscott.bsky.social administration centers on her investigation of MONSE, the mayor’s violence prevention program tinyurl.com/2vy9djcs She's going to court to fight for records after her Advisory Bd OKs hiring outside legal counsel.

Baltimore pastor says city’s sweeping zoning bill, which promises progress, may instead “deliver pain.” tinyurl.com/4b5phxn7 He joins residents and councilmen denouncing Bill 25-0066, as opponents plan online town hall tonight and the bill heads to committee on Thursday.

The @mayorbmscott.bsky.social administration’s latest assault on Baltimore's Inspector General - the city’s corruption watchdog - doesn’t hold up to legal scrutiny. tinyurl.com/bdcdawk2 . . . leaving a harsh question: what are they hiding? [OP-ED]

Flaking orange paint from the 28th Street Bridge is littering Falls Road and the Jones Falls tinyurl.com/3ynsbcx9 Chips resemble the lead paint flakes that fell in 2022 from Baltimore’s TV Tower. City officials don't believe they contain lead, but the MD Department of the Environment is testing them