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Baltimore health commissioner fired after 7 months on the job
Before her promotion to commissioner, Dr. Ihuoma Emenuga worked as the health department’s Youth Wellness and Community Health Division, where she oversaw clinical services in schools.
Dr. Ihuoma Emenuga after being sworn in as Health Commissioner by Mayor Brandon Scott at Baltimore City Hall on March 20, 2024.
Effort to block Harborplace redevelopment misses deadline to make November ballot
The anti-Harborplace redevelopment coalition, organized by attorney Thiru Vignarajah, faced a 4:30 deadline Monday to submit 10,000 signatures to Baltimore elections officials.
Harborplace renderings show massive residential units envisioned by the developer.
Group seeking to cut Baltimore property taxes hires David Smith’s attorneys
Renew Baltimore recently hired attorneys from the Thomas & Libowitz firm to sue after the city’s election board director rejected their petition to put the tax cut on the November ballot.
Renew Baltimore has enlisted a new slate of attorneys, those with another high-profile client who seeks to remake the city: Sinclair Broadcast Group executive and Baltimore Sun owner David Smith.
Baltimore leaders pass on chance to negate ballot measure on City Council size
The proposal would reduce the council to eight members from 14, plus a president elected citywide. City attorneys have made clear that if two successful charter amendments are completely contradictory, both will be thrown out.
The exterior of Baltimore City Hall as seen on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023.
A councilman wanted to hold a hearing about overdoses. He got shut down.
A hearing to examine Baltimore’s opioid overdose crisis was abruptly canceled Wednesday morning as a dispute between Mayor Brandon Scott and the City Council member who’d called the meeting boiled over and became public.
Members of the BRIDGES Coalition hold a demonstration in front of City Hall in Baltimore, Wednesday, July 10, 2024.
$20M to pay lawyers: Where money from Baltimore’s opioid settlement will go
Questions abound about how the money will be used to combat overdoses.
Discarded Narcan nasal spray sits on Retreat Street in Baltimore on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023.
Referendum to slash Baltimore property tax rate rejected from November ballot
The proposal to slash Baltimore’s property tax rate nearly in half has stoked fears of cratering finances in City Hall. Organizers behind the initiative said Tuesday that they disagreed with the decision and plan to challenge it in court.
The exterior of Baltimore City Hall as seen on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023.
Bill would increase Baltimore’s minimum wage for service workers to $15 an hour
The proposal follows action by Maryland leaders last year to raise the floor pay for most other workers, and comes on the heels of a contentious fight over the minimum wage for tipped workers down the road in Washington, D.C.
Wait staff, bartenders and other service workers would be paid a higher minimum wage if a bill introduced by Baltimore City Councilman John Bullock is approved.
Property tax cut looks likely for ballot despite Mayor Scott’s fears of bankruptcy
Petitioners filed more than 23,000 signatures on Thursday, far more than the proposal needs to appear on November’s ballot.
The exterior of Baltimore City Hall as seen on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023.
Baltimore council passes $4B spending plan, wrapping budget with few fireworks
The City Council didn’t introduce a single amendment to the mayor’s proposed budget.
Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby, center, conducts a budget hearing on Wednesday, June 14, 2023. The Baltimore City Council unanimously voted to shift about $12 million within Mayor Brandon Scott’s 2024 budget proposal on Wednesday, marking the first time in more than a century that council members used such financial authority.
A state-backed report found coal dust across Curtis Bay. CSX isn’t convinced.
CSX argues that many of the methods deployed by the community’s researchers, including low-cost air quality monitors, tape strips and statistical models, were flawed.
Views of CSX facilities scene from the Curtis Bay neighborhood in Baltimore on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023.
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.
Residents of Curtis Bay will have to file a claim to receive any payout.
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.
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.
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 large pile of coal can be seen from the surrounding neighborhood outside of the CSX facility in Curtis Bay on Aug. 4, 2023.
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.
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.
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.
The exterior of Baltimore City Hall as seen on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023.
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.
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.
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.
A compilation photo of councilman Robert Stokes Sr.  on the left and Jermaine Jones on the right.
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.
The exterior of Baltimore City Hall as seen on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023.
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.
St. Ann’s Catholic Church will close under a plan announced Wednesday by the Archbishop of Baltimore. It will merge with St. Francis Xavier.
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