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CSX reaches $1.75 million settlement with Curtis Bay residents over coal explosion
CSX Transportation and Curtis Bay residents who sued the company following a December 2021 explosion at its South Baltimore facility have reached a $1.75 million settlement in a class action lawsuit.
Baltimore City Councilman Mark Conway listens during a hearing with members of the Baltimore City Council’s Public Safety and Government Operations Committee inside Baltimore City Hall on Wednesday, Aug. 23.
City Council to examine city’s overdose response after Banner/Times report
Councilman Mark Conway plans to introduce legislation on Monday to convene a hearing in late June.
A large pile of coal can be seen from the surrounding neighborhood outside of the CSX facility in Curtis Bay on Aug. 4, 2023.
The world wants American coal. Curtis Bay residents say they pay the price.
Greenhouse gas emissions are coming down in Maryland. But record levels of coal leaving Baltimore are driving emissions overseas.
A memorial site to honor the construction workers who lost their lives in the collapse of the Key Bridge sits on the side of the road right before the blockade to Fort Armistead Park. Roberto Marquez, an artist from Dallas, TX, painted a mural in their honor as well as painted their names on several crosses dotting the perimeter of flowers, candles, and othe mementos of remembrance. Members of the community honored the victims through prayer and song on April 6, 2024.
Baltimore fundraising for Key Bridge victims raised over $800K, donation deadline extended
The city’s fund, one of several collecting donations for the survivors and victims of the Key Bridge disaster, was originally slated to close on Friday, but the mayor’s office said it planned to keep it open because of continued support.
The exterior of Baltimore City Hall as seen on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023.
Meet the younger, bright-eyed and (maybe) more progressive Baltimore City Council
Is a progressive bloc about to take hold of City Hall? The four newcomers don’t uniformly embrace the label.
Attorney Taylor Lilley of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, center, speaks during a press conference announcing a civil rights complaint filed to the EPA about the WIN Waste incinerator on May 29, 2024.
Advocates file civil rights complaint over Baltimore’s use of trash incinerator
The complaint, submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, argues that the city's department of public works has failed to adequately chart a course that would end Baltimore's reliance on incineration for its trash.
A compilation photo of councilman Robert Stokes Sr.  on the left and Jermaine Jones on the right.
With final votes counted, Jones upsets Stokes in East Baltimore council race
A longtime union leader, Jones ran a progressive campaign to unseat a two-term East Baltimore stalwart. He joins a wave of young, progressive-leaning candidates set to join the council.
The exterior of Baltimore City Hall as seen on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023.
Baltimore redirects nearly $70 million in pandemic aid to new priorities
While Baltimore has been slow to spend much of its American Rescue Plan Act funding, a change in oversight requirements has left the city nearly in compliance with an end-of-2024 federal deadline.
St. Ann’s Catholic Church will close under a plan announced Wednesday by the Archbishop of Baltimore. It will merge with St. Francis Xavier.
Archdiocese of Baltimore to close half of Catholic churches in city, nearby suburbs
Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori on Wednesday announced a final church consolidation plan that would reduce the number of worship sites from 59 to 30. Many churches would get folded into merged parishes.
Nick and Marilyn Mosby walk into a federal courthouse for a hearing.
The rise and fall of the House of Mosby
Nick Mosby’s last campaign looked a lot like that of his ex-wife, Marilyn Mosby. What happens next for the onetime Baltimore power couple is anyone’s guess.
Zeke Cohen embraces his wife Reena at his election night party on May 14, 2024.
Cohen wins Baltimore council president race, toppling Mosby
Zeke Cohen jumped out to an early lead Tuesday in the Democratic primary for Baltimore City Council president, as initial returns showed the 1st District councilman a few thousand votes ahead both incumbent Nick Mosby and Shannon Sneed.
Former Baltimore City Councilwoman Shannon Sneed announces her candidacy for City Council President outside of the Baltimore City Public Schools headquarters on E. North Ave. on Friday, October 20. Sneed represented the city's 13th District, and most recently ran for Lt. Gov. for the State of Maryland alongside gubernatorial candidate Tom Perez.
Shannon Sneed says she’s the progressive choice for City Council president
When Sneed jumped into the race last October, she entered as an underdog in a contest that already pitted an embattled incumbent against a formidably financed council colleague.
Zeke Cohen has dramatically outraised both of his opponents, reporting more money in the bank at the April filing deadline than Nick Mosby and Shannon Sneed combined, despite heavier spending.
To take on a vulnerable incumbent, Zeke Cohen built a full-throttle campaign
Cohen has not masked his ambitions for higher office, even publicly flirting with a run for mayor this year.
Nick J. Mosby, President of the Baltimore City Council, speaks during the Peace and Remembrance Day, in Baltimore, Thursday, May 25, 2023.
Nick Mosby was a rising star. Will voters give him a chance at redemption?
Victory could offer four years to reset his political career. Losing would close, at least for now, a decade-long chapter in which the Mosbys have commanded the political spotlight in Baltimore.
From left, Baltimore City Council presidential candidate Shannon Sneed, incumbent Nick Mosby and candidate Zeke Cohen participate in a televised debate April 17.
Sneed holds cash lead, Cohen spending big in City Council president race
Incumbent Council President Mosby also amped up his spending in April while bringing in a modest $13,500.
Thiru Vignarajah announces that he’s dropping out of the Baltimore mayoral race and endorsing Sheila Dixon on May 1, 2024.
Taxpayers funded Vignarajah’s abandoned mayor bid. Does he need to pay it back?
Backers of the city’s public financing system, including the City Council member who introduced the legislation to establish the program, called on Vignarajah Thursday to return the money.
The Baltimore Fire Department and BGE responded to a gas explosion in the 1500 block of Ridgley Street in south Baltimore on Nov. 18, 2023.
After union nod, Scott grants $10M in pandemic aid to Baltimore Fire Department
After taking heat for declining to send any of Baltimore’s windfall in federal pandemic aid to the city’s strapped fire department, Mayor Brandon Scott on Wednesday announced that he was setting $10 million aside for the agency.
The campaign manager for City Council President Nick Mosby (right, during a televised debate this month) did not respond Thursday to questions about inconsistencies in the amended campaign finance report.
Errors in Nick Mosby’s latest fundraising report raise even more questions
Among the biggest discrepancies in an amended campaign finance report is a more than $9,000 donation from BGE's PAC that the Mosby campaign now says was only $450.
Thiru jumped into the harbor on March 15, 2024 after announcing his environmental policy platform. If he gets elected and doesn’t fulfill the platform in 60 days, he’ll jump in again.
How publicly financed campaigns are working in Baltimore
In the first cycle using Baltimore’s new Fair Election Fund, the handful of candidates who have opted to publicly finance their campaigns are finding that the approach can pay dividends.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott listens as a team of crime analysts from the University of Pennsylvania presents findings from a new anti-violence report at a press conference on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. The report showed the impact of the city’s group violence reduction strategy throughout a 2022 pilot program run in Baltimore’s Western District.
Baltimore expands anti-gun-violence strategy into Eastern District
The long-awaited move comes as violent crime has continued to recede in Baltimore following last year’s record drop in homicides — a trend Scott has credited in part to the success of his group violence reduction strategy.
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