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Voters cast their ballots for the 2024 general election at Wise High School in Upper Marlboro.
4 things we learned from election night results in Maryland
Being popular doesn’t guarantee victory, and other lessons from Tuesdays election results.
Mondawmin is one of 120 neighborhoods where buyers can use an expanded Live Baltimore grant program to help pay for a home.
Hey, Baltimore renters: You could get up to $20,000 to buy a home
Two grants are offered: up to $10,000 to purchase a home or up to $20,000 to purchase and renovate a home.
Phyllis Wert, a former owner Chesapeake Wine Company, urges voters to reject the MCB Real Estate ballot measure to add residences to Harborplace at the Inner Harbor.
Harborplace developer’s former tenants urge vote against ballot question
The tenants said MCB Real Estate was a subpar landlord that drove down the shopping center’s value.
Angela Alsobrooks (center), Maryland’s Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, is endorsed by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at a gun violence prevention event at the Kentland Community Center in June.
The Harris and Alsobrooks friendship may matter now more than ever
As the general election draws near, Kamala Harris and Angela Alsobrooks are experiencing a different kind of intimacy as their friendship may matter now more than ever.
City Council is moving after state lawmakers earlier this year approved a law allowing higher tax rates on vacant properties.
Baltimore could begin taxing vacant properties more by July 2026
Owners of vacant properties would eventually pay a tax rate four times that of typical properties.
Cora Williams returns to her apartment in the Bellevieu Manchester apartments. She is one of several city tenants suing their landlord and property manager over their failure to procure a rental license, arguing that it was intentional fraud.
Tenants ask court if unlicensed landlords, property managers are committing fraud
A win on fraud and deceit would be a "huge win" for tenants, attorneys for the case said.
A man on a bike wearing a helmet waits outside of a glass shelter at an above ground train station.
Maryland’s transportation, housing agencies teaming up to incentivize new homes
The state wants to build fewer parking lots and more mixed-use developments on the 300 acres it owns within a half-mile of transit stations.
BOPA’s board voted Wednesday to lay off an undisclosed number of staff.
Baltimore cancels contract with BOPA after weeks of turmoil
BOPA CEO Rachel Graham said the arts council is still planning to put on a fireworks display for New Year’s Eve and to organize a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade.
Mayor Brandon Scott speaks outside of vacant homes on West Saratoga street during a press conference hosted by Build One Baltimore on February 16, 2023.
9 Baltimore groups to team up on vacant housing with $4M from JPMorgan Chase
Nine Baltimore nonprofits will receive a cut of a $4 million commitment from JPMorgan Chase.
Artscape, BOPA’s marquee event, could be farmed out to another organization, according to a plan put forward by senior City Hall officials last year.
Confidential 2023 memo outlines how Baltimore could cut ties with BOPA
The detailed plan would redirect all money the city gives the nonprofit to a wing of the mayor’s office and other organizations to put on BOPA’s signature events.
People enjoy downtown Detroit, Mich. on Sept. 19, 2024.
JPMorgan Chase helped revive Detroit. Now they’re betting big on Baltimore.
Those familiar with the bank’s work said JPMorgan Chase can help Baltimore fill its empty storefronts, reduce its vacant housing surplus and bring more good-paying jobs to city residents — all crucial to its financial sustainability.
The view from the third floor of one of Rising Housing’s properties in West Baltimore that will become a commercialized space called Java and Joists, as seen on Tuesday, April 9, 2024.
Gov. Moore wants to eliminate 5,000 vacant Baltimore homes in 5 years
The executive order comes about 10 months after Mayor Brandon Scott and community partners rolled out a comprehensive strategy designed to abate the city’s vacant housing epidemic
Temperatures in the 90s didn't deter crowds at ArtScape, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. Thunderstorms washed out the festival's scheduled concerts on Friday night.
A fight over $1.5M could cause Baltimore to break-up with BOPA
BOPA says the money was meant for the organization; the mayor’s office said it was a restricted grant that was always meant for the city.
One Calvert Plaza, once home of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. offices, was to be the site of 173 new apartments.
Chasen Cos. faces foreclosure filing on historic One Calvert Plaza building
Facing lien petitions, contract disputes and a foreclosure, the Baltimore real estate company has reached a tipping point.
Baltimore County purchased the wooded area on Cuckold Point Road for a park. The property is less than a mile from County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.’s house on Millers Island.
Park purchase near Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.’s home raises questions
Baltimore County is buying land for a waterfront park less than a mile from County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.’s Millers Island home. Some have questioned whether the county followed the protocol that it used for other proposed park acquisitions.
Perhaps the City Council’s biggest advocate for Baltimore restaurants, Zeke Cohen often feeds his volunteers from DiPasquale’s deli.
Power hungry: The restaurants that fuel Baltimore politics
How campaign finance records reveal the palates of Baltimore’s politicos.
Artscape
BOPA runs out of money, calls ‘emergency’ board meeting
Troubled Artscape host plans to vote on ‘personnel and business location’ Thursday
A Baltimore resident casts their vote on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022, at Margaret Brent Elementary/Middle School. Polling locations for the general election remain open until 8 p.m.
Nearly two-thirds of Maryland 18-year-olds are registered to cast a crucial vote
The rate of 18-year-old voters registered in Maryland exceeds that of neighboring Pennsylvania, according to the study, and Ohio, Georgia and Arizona.
There is a rotating homeless encampment in Wyman Park Dell, most live in makeshift tents.
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.
The commission hasn’t met since before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the new seven-member panel would be composed of volunteers.
Baltimore City Council moves to revive anti-animal abuse commission
Advocates warned that without more support from the mayor’s office, the revived commission would serve as an “exercise in futility.”
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