Baltimore is effectively stuck pumping millions of dollars into the Inner Harbor hotel and praying that its tourism industry takes off.

Homicides dropped 20% last year compared to 2022, bringing Baltimore below 300 total killings for the first time since Freddie Gray’s 2015 death.

Though blockchain is often considered the domain of Bitcoin bros and mega-rich fraudsters in the Bahamas, Baltimore thinks it can use the technology to put a dent in its inventory of thousands of vacant homes.

Completion of massive underground tanks at Northwest Baltimore’s Lake Ashburton and Druid Lake reservoirs brings the city into line with federal regulations first enacted in 2006.

The two cameras along the Jones Falls Expressway seem to have dissuaded reckless driving, though that’s also meant less revenue from speeding tickets for the city.

By backing the findings about the proliferation of coal dust in Curtis Bay, the Maryland Department of the Environment could face heightened pressure to tighten regulations on CSX.

Unlike other lean times of recent history, Baltimore's financial problems today are a result of climbing expenses, not falling revenues.

The suspension of light rail service has raised questions about why the state did not overhaul its older railcars sooner.

The resolution calling for a ceasefire comes days after the council rejected a separate, last-minute measure condemning the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.

Whether selling the city-owned Inner Harbor Hilton hotel is even an option, though, isn’t clear. If Baltimore were able to find a buyer, the sale would likely saddle the city with tremendous debt.

The Baltimore City Council on Monday night approved an inclusionary housing bill that would compel all major developments to reserve a portion of the units to be rented at reduced prices.

The resolution, which did not appear on Monday night’s agenda, failed with four members abstaining from the vote. Just minutes earlier, a large group of pro-Palestine protestors had been escorted out of the building after interrupting the council proceedings.

“She understands what our city needs better than any other candidate in this race,” Mayor Brandon Scott said of Alsobrooks on Tuesday at at the Zeta Center in Northwest Baltimore’s Park Heights neighborhood.

Three days after state regulators ruled that a confidential memo shedding light on the deal between Mayor Brandon Scott and Baltimore’s dominant utility provider should be public, the company released the document. For all the public outcry, though, the document is complex and its implications are not obvious.

The EPA had imposed a Nov. 30 deadline for the city to get massive underground water tanks at Lake Ashburton into operation. The city said it was nearing completion and should have the tanks ready within two weeks.

What exactly the memo might reveal remains unclear, but it could prove consequential to an impending decision from the Maryland Public Service Commission on the utility’s plans to finance investments in the Baltimore conduit system.

Repping religious origins, eccentric architecture and the legacies of Vietnam War dissenters and Civil Rights pioneers, these spires serve as soaring landmarks in both the geography and history of Baltimore.

“I’m always concerned when we have budget deficits like that,” said Mayor Brandon Scott. “But I’ve been around for ones a lot larger than one hundred million. So I know what we can do.”

With gun violence abating this year but car theft skyrocketing, most Baltimore residents say they don’t feel any safer. That could prove consequential in the contest between Mayor Brandon Scott and former Mayor Sheila Dixon.

The Maryland Office of the People’s Counsel, which has estimated the conduit deal could cost BGE ratepayers upwards of $860 million over 50 years, is calling on state regulators to publicize an internal accounting memo about the deal.