The Sparrows Point logistics hub and community leaders were considering an agreement to trade $40 million for a dredging site on the little island that houses a state park, but plans fell through after forceful community pushback.
More than 136 employees in the solid waste division don’t receive health insurance from the city, the inspector general found, and many of them didn’t even realize they were uninsured.
Councilwoman Odette Ramos championed legislation to establish a “land bank,” but she pulled back the legislation when it came time for the city council to vote.
Underground fires have broken out three times in a stretch of Baltimore’s North Charles Street, raising questions about safety and the cause of the subterranean blazes.
Not only are ballot measure efforts relatively cheap compared to electoral politics, they’re effective. Baltimore City voters rarely reject charter amendments.
Vignarajah was one of a handful of candidates to participate in Baltimore's new public financing system for small-dollar campaigns this year, but ended his bid for mayor weeks before Election Day and endorsed Sheila Dixon.
The Maryland State Department of the Environment published a draft permit Thursday morning that would allow CSX Transportation to continue operating its coal terminal in South Baltimore.
Together, the court’s decisions about the two proposals showcased the limits of Maryland’s ballot initiative process and affirmed the sole power of legislative branches to make specific policy — a hallmark of representative democracies.
Mayor Brandon Scott laid the groundwork for the city to begin spending money, with designs on slowing the death toll in a city where in recent years an average of three people have died from overdoses every day.
Mayor Scott's plan to expand benefits for police and firefighters comes as a hole in the pension fund has widened, falling $1.2 billion short of what’s needed to meet the needs of its future retirees.
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein and Michelle Spencer, both with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, will advise the Scott administration in a part-time capacity, effective immediately, while retaining their roles at the university.