Mayor Brandon Scott outlined an array of targeted policy reforms as well as several funding requests for addressing vacancy, supporting the Baltimore Police Department and bolstering public safety.
Mayor Brandon Scott is expected to lay out his goals and priorities for the legislative session Thursday afternoon, and Baltimore’s top lobbyist said City Hall will focus on painting the Moore administration an “overall picture of what Baltimore’s holistic need is.”
20 months after Mayor Brandon Scott first announced the city’s intent to buy two hotels to provide permanent and temporary housing for people experiencing homelessness — a flagship piece of the homeless services strategy — city officials say they have yet to close the deal.
Part of Rosaryville State Park in Prince George’s County has been named the “Rutherford Area,” an honor that Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford did not know was in the works when he visited the park this week.
Baltimore's transportation department has installed more speed humps in 2022 than in any prior year. But the agency is running up against a shortage of the poles it needs to put up new signs.
The pension bill passed 8-5 despite opposition from the city’s retirement system and finance department, which each advised against a rushed decision in a hearing earlier this month.
Baltimore’s short-staffed public works department still has no timeline for resuming weekly curbside recycling pickup since scaling back the service at the start of this year.
Chemicals needed to purify the city’s drinking water fell to “a critical level” at two treatment plants in Northeast Baltimore after a vendor temporarily stopped supplying the city in June, according to an inspector general report.
The incumbent Democrat has invested more than $12 million of his personal fortune into reclaiming the 6th District, which may be Maryland's most — and only — competitive congressional district.
The initiative, which pays residents to clean their communities, comes as the city’s Department of Public Works has struggled to return to pre-pandemic staffing levels.