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Are giant walls enough to shield Curtis Bay from coal dust? The neighborhood says no.
Curtis Bay residents want more protections from CSX’s coal facility, but state officials expect the company may file a lawsuit.
Views of CSX facilities scene from the Curtis Bay neighborhood in Baltimore.
Tradepoint abandons dredging plan for Hart-Miller Island, taking $40M with it
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.
An aerial view of Coke Point, the proposed site of the Sparrows Point Container Terminal.
Will your vote on the redevelopment of Harborplace matter? A court will decide.
The fate of a nearly $1 billion plan to reimagine Baltimore’s downtown waterfront now rests in the hands of judges.
Harborplace renderings show massive residential units envisioned by the developer.
How Baltimore’s legal wins over ballot questions were turned against Harborplace
Baltimore’s City Hall may have fumbled a chance to put its highest priority issue before voters.
In a demanding job, a fifth of Baltimore garbage workers don’t have health insurance
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.
An inspector general report has highlighted difficulties getting DPW employees enrolled in health insurance.
How a promising idea to fight Baltimore vacants with a ‘land bank’ fizzled out
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.
A row of dilapidated, boarded up vacant homes in Baltimore. A city councilwoman has pulled a measure that would have used a "land bank" to target such properties, citing a lack of council support.
Why does the ground beneath North Charles Street keep catching fire?
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.
The underground fire was extinguished Sunday, but the cause is still under investigation.
Baltimore approved to recoup $6 million in federal homelessness funds
The city appealed to the federal housing agency earlier this year to get back part of that lost funding.
There is a rotating homeless encampment in Wyman Park Dell, most live in makeshift tents.
In quest to shrink Baltimore City Council, it’s David Smith, not politics, on the ballot
Not only are ballot measure efforts relatively cheap compared to electoral politics, they’re effective. Baltimore City voters rarely reject charter amendments.
A Baltimore employee was caught in a bribery scheme. Were more involved?
Does the “girl” in “water” still work for the Baltimore City Department of Public Works? City officials aren’t saying.
Photo collage of Baltimore row house in front of stack of hundred dollar bills and blurry image of Baltimore City hall in far background.
Vignarajah returned $200K in public funding after dropping out of mayor’s race
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.
Thiru Vignarajah announces that he’s dropping out of the Baltimore mayoral race and endorsing Sheila Dixon on May 1, 2024.
State permit for CSX in South Baltimore would have a catch — barriers to block coal dust
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.
Coal piles at the CSX terminal in Curtis Bay can be seen around the neighborhood, and residents often complain of a fine layer of coal dust coating their homes.
Baltimore property tax cut, ‘Baby Bonus’ barred from November ballot
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.
The Robert C. Murphy Courts of Appeal Building in Annapolis hosts the Court of Special Appeals and the Court of Appeals. A state constitutional amendment on the ballot in 2022 would rename the courts to the Appeals Court of Maryland and the Supreme Court of Maryland.
Flush with cash from opioid settlements, Scott reveals Baltimore’s overdose playbook
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 Brandon Scott at a press conference in Baltimore City Hall's rotunda on Aug. 29 laid out his plans for managing the money won from pharmaceutical companies as part of ongoing opioid litigation.
Warren Branch, former inspector who represented East Baltimore on City Council, dies at 63
Warren M. Branch, a former city inspector who represented East Baltimore on City Council from 2007 to 2016, died last week at age 63.
Warren M. Branch
Fire unions backed the mayor’s reelection. Now he wants to boost their pension.
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.
A proposal by Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott to reinstate some pension benefits for police and firefighters would cost an estimated $7 million to $9 million annually.
Baltimore reaches 3rd settlement in opioid lawsuit, bringing total to $243M
Ohio-based pharmaceutical company Cardinal Health has been the third-largest distributor of opioids in Baltimore, according to the mayor’s office
Members of the BRIDGES Coalition hold a demonstration in front of City Hall in Baltimore in July.
Hopkins officials to advise Mayor Scott as Baltimore seeks new health commissioner
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.
The exterior of Baltimore City Hall as seen on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023.
City Council to hold hearing probing heat-related death of DPW worker
The hearing, scheduled for Aug. 22, comes as the Department of Public Works is facing new scrutiny over the conditions of its workplace.
The children of Ronald Silver II, the DPW worker who died of hyperthermia Aug. 2, wear shirts reading “We Love You Dad,” coupled with family photos, at a press conference outside City Hall.
Family of DPW worker who died of heatstroke says it was ‘completely preventable’
After a Baltimore sanitation worker died on the job from overheating 10 days ago, his family spoke publicly for the first time Monday.
The children of Ronald Silver II, a solid waste worker who died of hyperthermia, wear shirts that read  “We Love You Dad” printed on family photos at a press conference held outside City Hall on Monday.
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