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Mayor Brandon Scott holds a Squeegee press conference.
Mayor Scott lays out Baltimore legislative priorities ahead of General Assembly
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 speaks during a year-end press conference in City Hall on Wednesday, December 21.
Baltimore leaders set high expectations for legislative goals ahead of Gov.-elect Moore’s first session
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.”
Mark Council, right, is accompanied by an ASL interpreter as he welcomes attendees to the 2nd annual Homeless Persons' Memorial Day service at McKeldin Square in Downtown Baltimore. Council is on the Healthcare for the Homeless board of directors.
Baltimore promised hotels for homeless housing. There’s little progress as winter arrives again.
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.
Phillip Blackwell Director of Middle Branch Fitness and Wellness Center cuts a ribbon alongside Mayor Brandon Scott and other Parks and Rec employees during the ribbon cutting ceremony for Middle Branch Fitness and Wellness Center, in Baltimore, Wednesday, November 9, 2022.
Baltimore parks department is falling short of 2018 city equity law, audit finds
The four-year-old equity legislation was introduced and championed by Mayor Brandon Scott when he was a City Councilman.
Photo collage of broken handshake between two women with map of Baltimore’s Western Police District in background.
Key partner could be left out of push to expand city’s flagship anti-gun-violence program
A rift has been growing between the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement and Roca Maryland.
Maryland, Baltimore City, Baltimore County politics
Banner Political Notes: A parting gift for the Lt. Gov.; Mosby honors Mosby; a new job for John King
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.
The exterior of Baltimore City Hall on August 17, 2022.
Baltimore nonprofits routinely wait over a year for city to approve contracts, report finds
The delays can often leave city partners to begin work without a contract and without approved funding.
Baltimore Police commissioner Michael Harrison speaks during a city announcement for plans tp expand the Group Violence Reduction Strategy from the west policing districts into one or more additional policing precinct by early next year.
Baltimore outlines plan to take flagship anti-violence strategy citywide within two years
Some, however, express skepticism that the Baltimore Police Department has the manpower to support the expansion.
Damaged traffic signs on Druid Park Lake Dr. and Brookfield Dr., Baltimore, Md., on November 23, 2022.
Baltimore is short on poles, complicating installations of new stop signs and speed humps
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 exterior of Baltimore City Hall on August 17, 2022.
Divided City Council cuts time needed for elected officials to qualify for pensions in wake of voter-approved term limits
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.
Maryland, Baltimore City, Baltimore County politics
Banner political notes: Gopher pride in the State House; Ben Jealous’ new gig; Midterm scoreboard
At Gov.-elect Wes Moore’s announcement of his first hires, the essential Baltimore question followed: Where’d you go to school?
Supporters greet Congressman David Trone and his wife, June Trone (right), at his election night event at Gabriel Mt. Food Co. in Frederick on Tuesday, November 8, 2022.
Mail-in ballots push Trone past Parrott in nail-biter rematch for Western Maryland congressional seat
Trone's victory in the hotly-contested race denied the GOP an opportunity to flip the seat with redrawn state political maps.
DPW Director Jason Mitchell speaks at a press conference out front of the Office of Emergency Management addressing the concerns about the e.coli outbreak in West Baltimore.
Baltimore’s plans to resume weekly curbside recycling remain on hold
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.
Congressman David Trone greets supporters Karen Natelli (left) and Tom Natelli (right) at his election night event at Gabriel Mt. Food Co. in Frederick on Tuesday, November 8, 2022.
Incumbent Trone trails Parrott in tight race for Western Maryland Congressional seat
The contest remains too close to call with many mail-in ballots still uncounted.
Stormy clouds over Baltimore's Inner Harbor Monday Oct. 31, 2022.
Baltimore sues companies over ‘forever chemical’ pollution in waterways and water system
The city joins a wave of governments pursuing legal action over decades-long accumulation of the so-called "forever chemicals."
The Baltimore City Board of Estimates meets inside City Hall on 10/5/22.
Baltimore spending board extends contract for lame-duck sheriff’s office; audit finds that Comcast underpaid Baltimore
Just months before the end of his decadeslong tenure, Sheriff John Anderson asked for a contract boost for a former city employee-turned-consultant.
The dome of Baltimore City Hall on August 17, 2022.
Lapsed payments nearly compromised Baltimore drinking water supply in June, report finds
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.
Congressman Andy Harris and Heather Mizeur, 1st District Democratic Congressional candidate..
Mizeur seeking upset in Eastern Shore district long dominated by Harris
In Maryland’s only reliably red congressional district, Mizeur has tried to make the case that Harris is too right-wing even for conservative voters.
(left) Rep. David Trone, (right) Del. Neil Parrott
New Western Maryland district puts Trone in the hot seat in congressional rematch with Parrott
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.
Illustration of three workers removing trash from street in front of townhomes, with cityscape in the background
New $15M ‘Clean Corps’ to take on Baltimore’s stubborn trash problems
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.
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