Wednesday’s approval for Worley’s contract followed a dramatic City Council meeting Monday in which police reform activists interrupted proceedings with opposition and demanded a say.

The twin feelings of city residents — that Baltimore is headed in the wrong direction, but also that its future is bright — are shared by a majority of respondents, a new survey from Goucher College Poll in partnership with The Baltimore Banner shows.

Though Councilman Zeke Cohen holds an early lead over the incumbent Council President Nick Mosby, many respondents to The Banner poll — more than supported either council member — said they would vote for someone else entirely.

City Council President Nick Mosby had maintained at a hearing earlier in the day Friday that the council’s hands are tied if it wants to avoid an outcome that could allow the mayor to bypass its say in the mapmaking process.

The city has until the end of 2024 to earmark all of its American Rescue Plan Act funding. So far, it has obligated less than 40%.

Both the Housing Authority of Baltimore City and the Police Department have stressed a need for stronger relationships between their agencies and community members to stay ahead of potentially dangerous events.

City Council President Nick Mosby raised concerns Tuesday that the body will have to vote through new district lines by next week in order to avoid an outcome that could allow Mayor Scott to bypass its say in the process.

Baltimore and neighboring counties are under flood watch through Sunday morning

Organizers decided to suspend events scheduled for Saturday over concerns about potentially dangerous wind.

Acting Fire Chief James Wallace, a 33-year veteran of the department, is expected to get a vote before the full council next month.

The City Council is slated to hold back-to-back confirmation hearings Thursday night for Mayor Brandon Scott’s nominees, acting Police Commissioner Richard Worley and acting Fire Chief James Wallace.

The proposed map redrawing council district lines across the city is required ahead of next year’s election. With the mayor’s draft in hand, the City Council has 60 days to adopt it or submit its own alternative.

For some, the decision to bring the hearing to a close reflected sensitivity and humanity. For others, it exposed a blind spot of local government.

The wrenching testimony from the mother of a victim halted the hearing, which had been focused on a breakdown in police-community relations.

The report highlights many problems agencies had already been dinged for in previous years, with numerous issues surfacing in audits dating back as far as 2017.

This massive bill has accrued because, while the housing authority has been paying some of its water bill to the city it has not been paying them in full, staff from both the housing authority and the Department of Public Works told the inspector general’s office.

A federal jury found this week that two Anne Arundel County politicians owe a former worker at a gym they co-own nearly $5,000 after she said she was improperly fired.

Baltimore’s spending board considered more than $9 million worth of urgent requests or retroactive emergency items on Wednesday, an unusual pileup that comes as government operations remain frequently stymied by a dysfunctional purchasing system.

A 2017 federal consent decree required the Baltimore Police Department to install an advanced “early intervention system” that will track its officers.

Because utilities are not typically able to earn a return on investment from assets like the conduit that they don’t own, David Lapp with the Office of the People’s Counsel called the arrangement a “monopoly company’s gambit” to benefit its investors at the expense of its customers.