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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Not only are ballot measure efforts relatively cheap compared to electoral politics, they’re effective. Baltimore City voters rarely reject charter amendments.
Pharmacy giant Walgreens will pay Baltimore $80 million to settle a lawsuit the city brought against it and other drug companies as part of an overdose epidemic that’s plagued the city for years, Mayor Brandon Scott’s office said Tuesday.
Baltimore has won $322.5 million in settlement monies from opioid manufacturers and distributors, which the city plans to use to address the overdose rate.