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Mayor Brandon Scott is seen ahead of a community walk around the Four by Four neighborhood on May 7, 2024.
Brandon Scott gets a second term and a chance at a legacy
Baltimore gets four more years of Scott and his progressive, if not incremental, agenda.
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.
The ballot measure would have reduced Baltimore the City Council’s size by six members.
Baltimore rejects smaller City Council — and Sinclair’s David Smith
City officials had made a late push against Question H, warning residents that approving the measure, which sought to cut the City Council to eight members from 14, would reduce representation and mean poorer constituent services.
A view of the Baltimore City Council chamber where the president conducts business inside Baltimore City Hall on September 11, 2024.
Who signed the petition to shrink Baltimore City Council? It’s not who you think
Critics have said the ballot measure to shrink the Baltimore City Council will disenfranchise majority-Black neighborhoods. A Banner analysis found the vast majority of signers live in those neighborhoods and are Democrats. But why did they sign?
Albert Nickerson, a county commissioner in Kent County is pictured on his in-law's farm on October 18, 2024.
In Maryland’s smallest county, the politics of change take center stage
High property values and relative population density have given the town an outsized importance in the county’s economic picture.
The Dali cargo ship begins to move from the Key Bridge wreckage site on the morning of May 20, 2024, in Baltimore.
Owner, operator of ship that hit Key Bridge settle with DOJ for $100 million
The owner and the manager of the container ship that caused the Key Bridge collapse, killing six bridge workers, have agreed to pay more than $100 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the Justice Department. DOJ blamed the Singapore-based companies for a “cascading series of failures.”
The interior of Viva Books in downtown Baltimore was badly damaged in a fire that officials say started underground.
City still searching for cause of underground fires: ‘Can’t guarantee safety’
“We don’t have a sense of when it may happen again, we don’t have a sense of what to do differently,” Councilman Mark Conway said.
A Half Marathon runner sports a crab hat during the Baltimore Running Festival on October 19th, 2024 in Baltimore, MD. Eric Thompson for The Baltimore Banner.
‘I finished.’ The pain and joy of the Baltimore Marathon
Willy Fink and Sara Kenefick were the winners in the Baltimore Running Festival event.
Baltimore Police, Fire and the City Office of Emergency Management on the scene of a collision near the intersection of Cathedral and Centre Streets in Baltimore on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024.
Runaway garbage truck rolls downhill, kills its driver
A 41-year-old garbage worker was outside of the garbage truck he was operating when it began to roll.
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.
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.
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