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Independent reporting and informed commentary about greater Baltimore. News tips [email protected]
Baltimore, MD
Joined August 2009
New @JohnsHopkinsSPH study strengthens link between @CSX activities at its Curtis Bay coal terminal and air pollution (particulates, black carbon) levels in the neighborhood. This as permit with @MDEnvironment is pending.
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Still Going Strong. The water main break on Smith Ave. in Mt. Washington that's lifted up the manhole cover and gushes out gallons & gallons of city water per minute. Been doing this for at least 2 weeks. Here's how it looked tonight. So what's up @BaltimoreDPW?
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Rally in support of Kelly Madigan is planned next week, as @BaltCoExec mulls choice for Baltimore County inspector general.
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Baltimore County Exec. Klausmeier's handling of the Inspector General selection process is marred by conflict of interest, failure to follow law. So says the Association of Inspectors General, a national anti-corruption watchdog group, in letter out today.
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Replying to @BaltimoreBrew.Page Two of recent Association of Inspectors General letter criticizing Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier's handling of the IG selection process . which appears headed toward pushing IG Kelly Madigan out. 2/2
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National corruption watchdog group joins chorus of criticism over @BaltCoExec's handling of Inspector General selection process. [More to come from @BaltimoreBrew on their letter, just released this morning.]
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Sediment-laden runoff from @JohnsHopkins construction site above Stony Run during recent heavy rains raises questions about the environmental impact of Hopkins' Agora building and its planned Data Science and AI Institute.
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If it seems like senior staff are always coming (Letitia Dzirasa) and going (Kamau Marshall) under @MayorBMScott, consider the turnover in the days of Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. From The Brew archives:
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Neighbors call on @JohnsHopkins to control construction site’s river of runoff. After we inquired, workers were seen today, along Wyman Park Drive, installing new runoff prevention structures.
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How long has it been? .Two weeks - more - that drinking water has spewed out of a manhole cover on Smith Ave. just north of Mt. Washington? All that waste comes as city water rates jumped up again on July 1.
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Is Baltimore City's website vulnerable to another ransomware attack? It still runs on unsupported, unprotected Drupal 7. (Document show the lagging website upgrade project - led by a politically connected company - is now slated to cost $3.9 million.)
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Repeated delays and soaring costs: Baltimore’s website redesign is now pegged at $3.9 million and it will still be out-of-date, @BaltimoreBrew has learned.
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What ever happened to @MayorBMScott's pledge to raise solid waste worker wages? Nothing. So far, all they're getting is a small one-time summer stipend, to be approved tomorrow. "You have the most important job in Baltimore," he said in April.
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Kathy Klausmeier "appears determined to engineer a process that produces an inspector general who bows to political pressure," says Peta Richkus, who organized a petition drive calling on KK to reappoint Kelly Madigan. KK never responded.
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The California nonprofit (G.L.O.M.) that hired Nick and Marilyn Mosby touts, on its website, a glitzy "Palisades Project" coming on West North Avenue - on land owned by @MCBInvests. An MCB spox tonight disavowed any affiliation with the project.
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Baltimore County has confirmed Brew reporting that @BaltCoExec Kathy Klausmeier will take over from her selection panel and make her pick for Inspector General - together with Arthur Elkins, who was not present at interviews w/ Kelly Madigan & others.
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.@Nick_Mosby takes a job with his ex-wife’s employer, a California nonprofit seeking to build in Baltimore. Former City Council president is VP for G.L.O.M. Global, a nonprofit with grandiose expansion plans for West North Avenue and elsewhere.
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Blessed with empathy and a healthy sense of humor, Ray Bennett helped WBAL tell a fuller story about Baltimore and its people. An appreciation of the former features reporter, who died on July 5.
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As for Judge Griggsby’s instructions, he said they were taken “almost verbatim from model federal jury instructions,” and that if there was any error, “the error was harmless.” 2/2.
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The dissenting judge in 2-1 decision criticizes the majority for ignoring a well-established rule governing the venue where criminal conduct takes place.
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Strong dissent in 2-1 ruling overturning Marilyn Mosby's mortgage fraud conviction “There was ample evidence for the jury to conclude Mosby prepared and transmitted the false gift letter in Maryland and that venue in that forum was therefore proper." 1/2
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