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Photo illustration shows David Bramble with view of Harborplace pavilions in background.
Who’s behind those pro-Harborplace ads?
Baltimore for a New Harborplace reported receiving no donations while owing more than $100,000 to political strategy firms for “field expenses” and “media.”
Spectator holds a sign opposing the bill that would reduce the size of City Council during a press conference in Zeke’s Coffee Shop on September 15, 2024.
Labor unions donate $150K to stop effort to reduce Baltimore City Council size
Stop Sinclair has $155,952 on hand, a sizable advantage over Baltimore County media executive David Smith’s group, which has just over $5,100 in its account.
Votes on “Question F” to allow redevelopment at Harborplace will count, the Maryland Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Harborplace redevelopment ballot measure will count, Maryland’s Supreme Court rules
Thursday’s ruling means voters will cast ballots on a charter amendment which would allow MCB Real Estate, a private company, to redevelop the site of the existing Harborplace pavilions.
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.
Owners of vacant properties would pay higher tax rates if Baltimore City Council approves legislation introduced Monday.
Baltimore City Council wants to raise property tax rates on vacant homes
The plan would set the property tax rate on vacant properties at triple the current level for the first year it is in effect and then quadruple the current rate in subsequent years.
Harborplace renderings show massive residential units envisioned by the developer.
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.
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.
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.
This rat doesn’t live in Baltimore, but city officials are considering birth control for its relatives.
Baltimore could give birth control to rats, but there’s one big catch
The typical female brown rat has about five litters a year, with up to 12 “pups” a litter.
A structural pier of the Francis Scott Key Bridge remains in the Patapsco River six months after the container ship Dali lost power and hit a pier causing a catastrophic collapse.
What’s next for the Key Bridge: Rebuilding, lawsuits, investigations
What we know six months after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse — and what will surface in the years to come.
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.
“I encourage all City voters to vote the entire ballot,” the state’s election administrator advised on social media.
State election board seeks to count Harborplace votes while appeal waits
Maryland Elections Administrator Jared DeMarinis wrote on social media that his agency made the request in an effort to prevent “potential disenfranchisement” or “undervoting” while an appeal is ongoing.
Festival goers at ArtScape headed for cover Friday night after a thunderstorm blew through Baltimore. The weather forced the cancellation of musical acts, including Grammy winner Chaka Khan.
Broke BOPA wants a $1.8M bailout. The mayor wants a forensic audit first.
At the same time the city’s top arts organization was struggling to make payroll, its CEO went ahead with plans for Artscape, BOPA’s premier event, without consulting anyone.
Artscape
BOPA runs out of money, calls ‘emergency’ board meeting
Troubled Artscape host plans to vote on ‘personnel and business location’ Thursday
The Dali, a massive container ship from Singapore,  still sits in the wreckage and collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the Baltimore port on April 1, 2024. It has been a week since it lost power and struck the bridge , causing it to topple in seconds, taking several roadway workers and their cars with it. The once giant frame of the bridge now sits in the water and large cranes have arrived to untangle the mess.
Dali ‘jury-rigged’ and unseaworthy when it slammed into Key Bridge, feds say
The U.S. Justice Department accused the operators of Dali, the container ship that brought down the Francis Scott Key Bridge, of negligence and mismanagement.
The Baltimore skyline is seen above the Harborplace pavilions and the Inner Harbor.
Election board will appeal Harborplace ballot ruling to state Supreme Court
With the election less than two months away, it’s expected the state Supreme Court will decide whether to take up the case and rule expeditiously.
A state judge has ruled against a November ballot question allowing for this proposed redevelopment of Harborplace.
Judge blocks ballot question to allow Inner Harbor redevelopment
An Anne Arundel County judge ruled Monday to invalidate a ballot question asking Baltimore City voters to rezone the Inner Harbor for development on the grounds that it’s not proper charter material.
Mayor Brandon Scott and his wife pose side-by-side while on vacation.
In a late-night post, Mayor Brandon Scott says he and his wife are expecting second child
In a late-night Instagram post, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott announces his family is expecting a second child.
In the last six years, nearly 6,000 people have died in Baltimore from opioid overdoses — the worst drug crisis ever seen in an American city.
Baltimore’s opioid case could head to court next week. Here’s how we got here.
On Monday, Baltimore will begin a much-anticipated trial against drug companies to assign blame for the city’s opioid overdose death crisis.
Baltimore is poised to ban noisy, polluting gas-powered leaf blowers, with offenders subject to fines.
Gas-powered leaf blowers of Baltimore, your days are numbered
“Gas-powered leaf blowers are effectively pollution generation machines,” said Councilman Ryan Dorsey.
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