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Bill Henry kicks off a hearing on the Baltimore Children & Youth Fund by saying it’s been subject to unfair media coverage
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He apologized that he and other architects of BCYF “completely ignored the optics” of a taxpayer-funded entity that wd make it vulnerable to media scrutiny.
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Comptroller Henry kicks off hearing on Baltimore Children and Youth Fund by saying it’s been subject to unfair media coverage | Baltimore Brew
Henry said he and other early architects of BCYF “completely ignored the optics” of a taxpayer-funded entity that would make it vulnerable to scrutiny by the media.
https://tinyurl.com/58rnueuc
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Community takes its case against Johns Hopkins DSAI project to City Hall, and loses.
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Saying concerns about the Data Science & AI Institute were being ignored,
@odetteramos.bsky.social
had wanted deferral of the approvals Hopkins sought: “The lack of transparency is astounding.”
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Community takes its case against Johns Hopkins’ DSAI project to City Hall, and loses | Baltimore Brew
Saying residents’ concerns about the Data Science and AI Institute were being ignored by the university, Councilwoman Ramos wanted city leaders to defer the approvals it sought: “The lack of transpar...
https://tinyurl.com/4evcxj2
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Today’s hearing on the Baltimore Children and Youth Fund could lead to much-needed accountability.
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Right now, sketchy grantmaking and lack of meaningful outcomes reporting make it hard to say if the funds are going to grassroots groups as intended. [OP-ED]
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Today’s hearing on the Baltimore Children and Youth Fund could lead to much-needed accountability | Baltimore Brew
The funds are supposed to go to grassroots groups. Is that happening? It’s hard to say due to BCYF’s sketchy grantmaking and lack of meaningful outcomes reporting. [OP-ED]
https://tinyurl.com/9zvpkpfv
14 days ago
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.@Zeke_Cohen confirms
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reporting, says locksmith contract was inflated by $3 million.
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“There was an error in the calculation,” resulting in a 340% price increase that somehow city agencies and the mayor’s and comptroller’s offices ... didn't catch.
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Council President Zeke Cohen confirms Brew reporting, says locksmith contract was inflated by $3 million | Baltimore Brew
“There was an error in the calculation,” the Department of General Services tells Cohen, that resulted in a 340% price increase that city agencies and the mayor’s and comptroller’s office did not catc...
https://tinyurl.com/yse4r2hj
14 days ago
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BREAKING Despite passionate pleas from residents and
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, Bd of Estimates ok's MOU allowing Johns Hopkins to make stormwater improvements on Wyman Park Drive to include tree cutting and, during construction, shutting the road down
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[this story to be updated]
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City asked to approve stormwater upgrades for Johns Hopkins data institute that will require tree cutting | Baltimore Brew
North Baltimore residents who have been critical of JHU’s Data Science and AI Institute (DSAI) project have targeted the request on today’s Board of Estimates agenda.
https://tinyurl.com/mwsb759v
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City asked to approve stormwater upgrades for Johns Hopkins planned data science and AI buildings that will require tree cutting.
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Neighborhood critics of the DSAI project have targeted two items on today's Board of Estimates agenda.
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City asked to approve stormwater upgrades for Johns Hopkins data center that will require tree cutting | Baltimore Brew
North Baltimore residents who have been critical of Johns Hopkins University’s Data Science and AI Institute (DSAI) project have targeted the request on today’s Board of Estimates agenda.
https://tinyurl.com/mwsb759v
15 days ago
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Outgoing Inspector General Kelly Madigan calls for more transparency and higher standards in Baltimore County, as she heads out the door.
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We recap some of her investigations that ruffled feathers ... and the harsh attack from two council members that she survived.
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IG Kelly Madigan calls for more transparency and higher standards in Baltimore County | Baltimore Brew
The County Council ignores recommendations by the outgoing inspector general to improve the office’s ability to root out waste and fraud.
https://tinyurl.com/5enjrkr4
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BREAKING - The Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC) cancels plans to sell Sisson Street Drop-Off Center to a private developer.
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"We cancelled the RFP," @OtisRolley told the Task Force last night.
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BDC cancels plans to sell Sisson Street Drop-Off Center to a private developer | Baltimore Brew
The Baltimore Development Corporation says it has cancelled the RFP that led to the Scott administration’s effort to relocate the trash facility in the Jones Falls Valley.
https://tinyurl.com/muhyptuj
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There's actually no authority in Baltimore County law for anyone to appoint an “acting” Inspector General.
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Ironically, Kelly Madigan’s resignation sets up
#worstcasescenario
for proponents of a strong IG: Kathy Klausmeier will appoint someone for a 4-year term [OP-ED]
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Up in the Air: No authority in Baltimore County law to appoint an “acting” Inspector General | Baltimore Brew
Ironically, Kelly Madigan’s resignation sets up the worst case scenario for proponents of a strong IG: Appointment by Klausmeier of an inspector general to a four-year term.
https://tinyurl.com/4a8jaypc
16 days ago
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Now it looks like the
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parking garage - undergoing $11 million (so far) in repairs - won't reopen until 2027.
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(They're going to have to update that sign 👇 that says "Completion: Spring 2025.")
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Undergoing $11 million in repairs, Police Department parking garage won’t reopen until 2027 | Baltimore Brew
As the price for fixing the building escalates, the mayor blames his predecessors and the agency in charge hopes for the best.
https://tinyurl.com/53cydcbu
19 days ago
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In his zeal for the zoning bills going thru his committee,
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is skirting the rules and suppressing community voices, say critics.
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Including residents who have filed complaints with the state about his conduct of last week's hearing.
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's handling of controversial zoning bills is sparking protests.
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There's a complaint to the state about him disallowing virtual testimony. Recently a councilman asked
@zekecohen.bsky.social
to stop zoning bills from going through his committee.
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Councilman Ryan Dorsey’s handling of controversial zoning legislation is sparking protests | Baltimore Brew
The assertive architect of Mayor Scott’s bill package, also sitting as committee chair, he’s the lightning rod as residents in many Baltimore neighborhoods say their voices are going unheard.
https://tinyurl.com/rd6deeav
20 days ago
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The TV tower-painting company that showered TV Hill with lead paint chips in 2022 pleads guilty and is fined $100,000
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Still pending, civil suits against tower owner TTI - managed by three Baltimore-area TV stations: @wbaltv11 , @wjz , and @WMAR2News.
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Company that sent lead paint chips down on TV Hill pleads guilty, is fined $100,000 | Baltimore Brew
Skyline Tower Painting’s botched repainting of the iconic broadcast tower “exposed children to dangerous lead paint chips, contaminating Baltimore playgrounds, yards and even a daycare center,” Attorn...
https://tinyurl.com/y95zh8wk
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Last-minute no-show by @BDCBaltimore last night angered Sisson Street Task Force chair
@odetteramos.bsky.social
who noted it was the BDC that initiated legislation to sell the land to a private developer in the first place
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"They are not transparent.This is a huge problem!"
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BDC bows out of Sisson Street Task Force meeting, prompting an outburst by its chair | Baltimore Brew
“They are not transparent,” Councilwoman Odette Ramos said of the Baltimore Development Corporation, noting the quasi-governmental agency initiated the legislation to sell the land in the first place.
https://tinyurl.com/46ca2a73
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In do-over election, sanitation worker Stancil McNair wins Local 44 presidency – beating Trevor Taylor by an even greater margin than last time.
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"We got work to do and now we're finally on our way," he said today outside the
@afscmemd.org
union hall.
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In do-over election, sanitation worker Stancil McNair wins Local 44 presidency – again | Baltimore Brew
After his surprise victory in August was challenged and thrown out, McNair tried unsuccessfully in court to halt the second election. Today he again beat AFSCME officials’ favored candidate, outgoing ...
https://tinyurl.com/kxjpwwhf
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Local 44 election to be held tomorrow, after judge rejects sanitation worker’s bid to halt it.
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Judge Abelson said an
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judicial panel’s decision to throw out the August election - that swept an insurgent slate into office - would likely be upheld.
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Local 44 election to be held tomorrow after judge rejects sanitation worker’s bid to halt it | Baltimore Brew
An AFSCME judicial panel’s decision to throw out the August election that swept an insurgent slate into office would likely be upheld, he says, denying request for a temporary restraining order.
https://tinyurl.com/msdws5u8
26 days ago
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A locksmith contract, set to rise by millions of dollars, is deferred by
@zekecohen.bsky.social
. Baltimore's spending board backs away from a 400% increase for locksmith services.
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Questions remain . . . but documents show who okayed the previous expenditures.
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A locksmith contract, set to rise by millions of dollars, deferred by Baltimore Board of Estimates | Baltimore Brew
At the request of Zeke Cohen, the spending board backed away from approving a 400% increase for locksmith services. Questions remain, but documents show who okayed the previous expenditures.
https://tinyurl.com/ya7tky5w
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Baltimore sanitation workers’ emergency motion to halt the rerun of the Local 44 election will be heard in federal court.
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Stancil McNair, and other winners of the August leadership vote, are seeking a court injunction to stop a new election on December 6.
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Workers’ emergency motion to halt rerun of Local 44 election to be heard in federal court | Baltimore Brew
McNair, other winners of the August leadership vote are seeking a court injunction to stop a new election on December 6.
https://tinyurl.com/3scef5db
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Sensing the public mood, a City Council committee pumps the brakes on
@mayorbmscott.bsky.social
high-priority zoning bill, 25-0066.
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It was the culmination of community opposition and organizing, simmering for months, but ramping up sharply in recent weeks.
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Sensing the public mood, a City Council committee pumps the brakes on Mayor Scott’s zoning bill | Baltimore Brew
Lawmakers who previously supported the centerpiece of the mayor’s legislative package are now expressing doubts. Amendments are in the works, but no new hearing date is scheduled.
https://tinyurl.com/yvx32f9a
29 days ago
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Winners of Local 44 election file injunction to block election do-over
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Stancil McNair and his slate say 2nd election is “unjustified and unlawful.”
@afscmemd.org
aryland concedes judge could find the union “breached its Constitution by ordering a new election.”
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Winners of Local 44 election file an injunction to block election do-over | Baltimore Brew
Stancil McNair and his insurgent slate say a second election is “unjustified and unlawful.” AFSCME concedes that a judge could determine that the union “has breached its Constitution by ordering a new...
https://tinyurl.com/mrfj3tz7
about 1 month ago
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Pondering some Black Friday shopping with one of those quick-cash apps?
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A look at how Baltimore sued one for being predatory- meanwhile MD lawmakers earlier this year passed an industry bill that made it easier for them to operate. By
@maddioneill.bsky.social
Neill for The Brew
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While Baltimore sues a money-lending app for preying on the poor, Maryland makes it easier for such apps to do so | Baltimore Brew
https://tinyurl.com/53wm65a9
about 1 month ago
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.
@mayorbmscott.bsky.social
denies trying to influence the hotly-contested Local 44 sanitation workers election. Today one candidate stood next to the mayor at City Hall while his opponent, the current union president, was out on his trash pickup route.
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Mayor Scott denies trying to influence the upcoming Local 44 election | Baltimore Brew
The City Hall ceremony took place when Local 44 President Stancil McNair was at work on his trash route.
https://tinyurl.com/yfhs57hu
about 1 month ago
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Baltimore residents rally to say: bills removing zoning guardrails will worsen racial disparities, not heal them
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“We have heard every justification possible, every fallacy used to advance this bill."
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Residents rally to say: removing zoning guardrails will worsen racial disparities, not heal them | Baltimore Brew
“We have heard every justification possible, every fallacy used to advance this bill,” protesters against Brandon Scott’s Baltimore upzoning measure said outside City Hall yesterday.
https://tinyurl.com/yc6vu3ft
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IT'S OUT - The Sisson Street Task force takes the Falls Road site for a trash drop-off center - the one beside the Jones Falls - off the table.
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The chair now says the group’s work won’t be done by
@mayorbmscott.bsky.social
's December deadline.
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Sisson Street Task Force rejects Falls Road as site for trash drop-off center | Baltimore Brew
With a location beside the Jones Falls taken off the table, the chair says the group’s work won’t be done by Mayor Scott’s December deadline.
https://tinyurl.com/2nkwnudd
about 1 month ago
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No official announcement yet, but Local 44 re-vote is reportedly happening on December 6. Trevor Taylor, the losing candidate who triggered the election re-run, is out campaigning on social media. Xx
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No official announcement yet, but Local 44 re-vote is reportedly happening on December 6 | Baltimore Brew
Trevor Taylor, the losing candidate who triggered the election re-run, is out campaigning on social media.
https://tinyurl.com/6p8f649f
about 1 month ago
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"Why I lost faith in zoning."
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Baltimore’s former zoning board executive director, on why she supports
@mayorbmscott.bsky.social
bills to promote more density and multi-family housing in the city. [OP-ED]
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Baltimore’s former zoning board director explains why she lost faith in zoning | Baltimore Brew
The mayor’s “Housing Options and Opportunity” legislation – including Bill 25-0066 – will go a long way toward fixing an unfair system. [OP-ED]
https://tinyurl.com/5n8sh428
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Tensions flare as Council VP Middleton denounces
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's upzoning bill 0066 and supporters push back. Both sides point to issues of race, as a sweeping bill to spur more multi-family housing in Baltimore is debated.
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Tensions flare as Middleton denounces Scott’s upzoning bill and supporters push back | Baltimore Brew
Both sides point to issues of race as a sweeping bill to spur more multi-family housing in Baltimore is debated
https://tinyurl.com/yc3k7d52
about 1 month ago
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The taxpayer-funded Baltimore Children & Youth Fund has spent tens of millions of dollars and, in its latest IRS filing, discloses 36% went to administration and staffing costs.
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Striking details from an IG report and other sources on an org that gets little City Hall oversight.
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Baltimore Children and Youth Fund spends freely with little oversight from City Hall, inspector general finds | Baltimore Brew
Taxpayer-funded BCYF has spent tens of millions of dollars and, in its latest IRS filing, discloses that 36% went to administration and staffing costs. Striking details from an IG report and other sou...
https://tinyurl.com/mu4yuvd9
about 1 month ago
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Supporters and opponents gear up for tomorrow’s hearing on a zoning bill aimed at promoting multi-unit housing and density, Bill 25-0066.
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Supporters and opponents gear up for tomorrow’s hearing on a major Baltimore zoning change | Baltimore Brew
Mayor Brandon Scott’s widely debated bill aimed at promoting housing options and density moves to Councilman Ryan Dorsey’s committee.
https://tinyurl.com/yx6nwtxz
about 1 month ago
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By enabling “gentle density,”
@mayorbmscott.bsky.social
zoning legislation will support real people with real needs in my neighborhood. Anxieties about it, while sincere, are misplaced.
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[OP-ED]
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Scott’s zoning bills will support real people with real needs by enabling “gentle density” | Baltimore Brew
The changes will make Baltimore a city that welcomes new residents and gives longtime neighbors more options to stay. [OP-ED]
https://tinyurl.com/29z4wv3f
about 1 month ago
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Baltimore residents, including Black residents, favor zoning that promotes home ownership as a way to build wealth and have a good quality of life. Why dismantle that with the
@mayorbmscott.bsky.social
administration's Bill 25-0066? [OP-ED]
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Eroding the bedrock of single-family-zoned neighborhoods in Baltimore doesn’t make sense | Baltimore Brew
Residents, including Black residents, favor zoning that promotes home ownership as a way to build wealth and have a good quality of life. So why dismantle that with Bill 25-0066? [OP-ED]
https://tinyurl.com/43psx9tb
about 1 month ago
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The Baltimore County Council may have violated the law when it held a closed session on the appointment of a new county exec. But neither Kelly Madigan, the county's "watchdog" inspector general, nor the county attorney appears ready to call them out.
#passingthebuck
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[OP-ED]
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A frustrating game of hot potato in Baltimore County | Baltimore Brew
The County Council may have violated the law when it went into closed session to discuss the appointment of a new county executive. But neither the inspector general nor the county attorney appears re...
https://tinyurl.com/3dwkcuvr
about 2 months ago
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No progress for Baltimore if it allows neighborhoods to cater only to "the people who own."
tinyurl.com/yuwennva
So said
@electryandorsey.bsky.social
at the 10/30/25 Planning Commission mtg. As part of our coverage of the pending zoning bill (0066), we publish a transcript of his remarks.
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No progress for Baltimore if it allows neighborhoods to cater only to “the people who own” | Baltimore Brew
The city cannot thrive “if our housing is a one-size-fits-all solution,” the councilman said at a hearing on pending legislation to allow multi-unit housing in single-family-zoned neighborhoods [TRANS...
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about 2 months ago
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Warning from Marble Hill: Zoning bill will reverse our historic Black neighborhood’s progress.
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By stripping away zoning safeguards, Bill 25-0066 encourages speculative buyers to divide up properties and exploit communities, this West Baltimore resident says [OP-ED]
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A warning from Marble Hill: Zoning bill will reverse our historic Black neighborhood’s progress | Baltimore Brew
By stripping away zoning safeguards, Bill 25-0066 encourages speculative buyers to divide up properties and exploit communities, this West Baltimore resident says. [OP-ED]
https://tinyurl.com/3chfhjrc
about 2 months ago
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Those Confederate monuments - long off their granite pedestals in Baltimore - are now in a Los Angeles museum, paint spatters and all.
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“They're a crystalline symbol of a white supremacist ideology," the curators say
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Baltimore’s Confederate monuments: Now in an LA museum, they’re decidedly off their pedestals | Baltimore Brew
Curators call the four bronze sculptures, still owned by Baltimore City, “a crystalline symbol of a white supremacist ideology.”
https://tinyurl.com/yc52x8wn
about 2 months ago
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Two workplace deaths preceded the big wage increase just ratified by Baltimore Local 44 sanitation workers. Still unsettled - the legal battle at AFSCME Maryland over the election of grassroots activist Stancil McNair.
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Baltimore sanitation and other municipal workers ratify new contract | Baltimore Brew
Offering a generous wage package, the contract is an outgrowth of public pressure regarding hazardous conditions and low wages faced by sanitation workers. Still unresolved: who will become president ...
http://tinyurl.com/yjnzbnrm
about 2 months ago
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Martha S. Jones
about 2 months ago
Have you seen it?! Romare Bearden’s mural “Baltimore Uproar” in the Upton Metro Station.
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Baltimore officials came under fire for homeless shelter conditions and adverse impacts on the community at an at-times contentious City Council hearing this week.
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Baltimore officials under fire for homeless shelter conditions and adverse impacts on the community | Baltimore Brew
Homelessness is on the rise but Mayor Scott’s homeless services director isn’t doing enough to protect clients and the community, City Council members and others say.
https://tinyurl.com/mxjpcmt9
about 2 months ago
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UPDATE - CAO Faith Leach reached out to The Brew to note that the executive coaching contract we reported on this week describes the payments as “$1,800/month” and that in addition to the 10 monthly one-hour sessions, it covers "unlimited check-ins."
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CAO Faith Leach arranges for 10 one-hour executive coaching sessions plus check-ins at $1,800 per month | Baltimore Brew
The Board of Estimates approved the spending as part of a larger contract awarded to a small D.C. consulting firm.
https://tinyurl.com/3ac525wk
about 2 months ago
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Baltimore's Chief Administrative Officer Faith Leach arranges for ten $1,800-an-hour executive coaching sessions with her ex-D.C. boss.
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The city's Board of Estimates – including Leach herself, filling in for
@mayorbmscott.bsky.social
– voted to approve the spending today.
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CAO Faith Leach arranges for ten $1,800-an-hour executive coaching sessions with her ex-D.C. boss | Baltimore Brew
The Board of Estimates – including Leach herself, filling in for Mayor Scott – approved the spending as part of a larger contract awarded to a small D.C. consulting firm.
https://tinyurl.com/3ac525wk
about 2 months ago
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A nice alphabetically organized Baltimore neighborhood saddled with a not-so-nice name.
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Folks love living in "The A to K" but why's it also sometimes called “Joseph Lee?” Who was he? A white-hot bigot, it turns out. No wonder they rebranded as "Bayview."
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A nice alphabetically organized Baltimore neighborhood oddly saddled with a not-so-nice name | Baltimore Brew
Residents love living in “The A to K,” but why is the neighborhood also sometimes called “Joseph Lee?” Who was this guy? When I tracked down the answer, it became clear why they rebranded it as Bayvie...
https://tinyurl.com/2sm5m4x3
about 2 months ago
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Werewolves of Hampden . . . and other creatures spotted last night. Ahoo!
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Did photographer Jennifer Bishop snap a shot of you at Hampden Halloweenfest?
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Werewolves of Hampden . . . and other creatures spotted last night | Baltimore Brew
Costumed trick-or-treaters flocked to the always-spooktastic Hampden Halloweenfest and came away with candy, trinkets and possibly a few recurring nightmares.
https://tinyurl.com/mtefubdr
2 months ago
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Acknowledging it’s a leap into the unknown, Planning Commission signs off on
@mayorbmscott.bsky.social
's sweeping re-zoning bill. "We need to grow...the solution is to try more stuff, do more things, listen to people from other places and see what happens."
www.baltimorebrew.com/2025/10/31/a...
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Acknowledging it’s a leap into the unknown, Planning Commission signs off on Scott’s sweeping re-zoning bill | Baltimore Brew
“We need to grow . . . the solution is to try more stuff, to do more things, to listen to people from other places and see what happens,” Planning chair says.
https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2025/10/31/acknowledging-its-a-leap-into-the-unknown-planning-commission-signs-off-on-scotts-sweeping-re-zoning-bill/
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Behind the plans for relocating the Sisson Street trash drop-off center: Two politically powerful players.
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Seawall Development and MCB Real Estate own possible alternative sites, but you’d never know it listening to Baltimore city officials Monday night.
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Behind the plans for relocating the Sisson Street trash drop-off center: Two politically powerful players | Baltimore Brew
Seawall Development and MCB own possible alternative drop-off sites, but you’d never know it listening to city officials.
https://tinyurl.com/5n8pncjc
2 months ago
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City Council seeks crackdown on smoke and vape shops modeled on recent “dollar store” legislation.
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Lately, 13 smoke shops have popped up in a 3-block area of his East Baltimore district, says Councilman Antonio Glover, some selling fentanyl-laced marijuana products.
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City Council seeks crackdown on smoke and vape shops modeled on recent “dollar store” legislation | Baltimore Brew
Thirteen smoke shops have popped up in a three-block area of his East Baltimore district, says Councilman Antonio Glover, some selling fentanyl-laced marijuana products, threatening to “create the nex...
https://tinyurl.com/2yhd955b
2 months ago
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Defending ending parking requirements for new apartments, Councilman Jermaine Jones said residents deserve better kinds of protections.
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Councilwoman Phylicia Porter said they've been "the only lever" for communities oversaturated w/ substance abuse and mental health clinics.
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W/ little change from last week, Council approves
@mayorbmscott.bsky.social
' s zoning bills tonight.
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Councilman Torrence said Black citizens were being ignored and ppl waved “Democracy over Developers” signs, but the rule-relaxing, density-promoting bills passed as expected.
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With little change from last week’s vote, Council gives final approval to two of Scott’s zoning bills | Baltimore Brew
Audience members waved “Democracy over Developers” and “Neighborhoods Matter” signs. But as expected, the mayor’s rule-relaxing, density-promoting legislation passed.
https://tinyurl.com/5fk2yaxk
2 months ago
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There’s a better way to craft bills that will change the rules for Baltimore housing. It starts with fairness and honesty – elements missing from the dialogue around zoning and housing legislation now being pushed through the City Council [OP-ED]
www.baltimorebrew.com/2025/10/27/t...
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There’s a better way to craft legislation that will change the rules for Baltimore housing | Baltimore Brew
It starts with fairness and honesty – elements missing from the zoning and housing legislation now being pushed through the City Council. [OP-ED]
https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2025/10/27/theres-a-better-way-to-craft-legislation-that-will-change-the-rules-for-baltimore-housing/
2 months ago
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A look at the last minute grassroots persuasion campaign mounted ahead of tonight's critical vote on controversial zoning bills backed by
@mayorbmscott.bsky.social
and
@electryandorsey.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/4vyj4a9c
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Lobbying intensifies ahead of vote on controversial Baltimore zoning bills | Baltimore Brew
Opponents of two key bills in the mayor’s housing package – narrowly approved in a preliminary vote by the City Council – seek to flip votes at tomorrow’s meeting.
https://tinyurl.com/4vyj4a9c
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Lobbying intensifies ahead of vote on
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controversial Baltimore zoning legislation.
tinyurl.com/4vyj4a9c
Opponents of two key bills – narrowly approved in a preliminary vote by the City Council – seek to flip votes at tomorrow’s meeting.
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Lobbying intensifies ahead of vote on controversial Baltimore zoning bills | Baltimore Brew
Opponents of two key bills in the mayor’s housing package – narrowly approved in a preliminary vote by the City Council – seek to flip votes at tomorrow’s meeting.
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