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#Baltimore teachers whose classrooms were frigid today - in the 30s & 40s - were online & angry: "Things we only ask of black and brown children."
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Someone took a sledgehammer to Baltimore's 200-yr-old monument to Christopher Columbus early this morning
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After @MayorPugh50 told fed'l agents her personal phone was in Philadelphia, they dialed the # and there was "a vibrating sound emanating from her bed." She dove for it. An agent "yelled for her to stop & show her hands." Pugh grabbed it from under the pillow, still vibrating.
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BREAKING: In a victory for Poppleton residents, @MayorBMScott to announce the Eaddys can keep their home. And the Sarah Ann houses will be saved - and rehabbed by Black Women Build Baltimore. "The little guy won."
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Wow, Baltimore’s Inner Harbor is really swollen tonight amid this heavy rain. The water at Harborplace is deep and getting deeper!
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Takeaway from yesterday's huge turnout at a #CovidVaccine clinic in West Baltimore that administered 2,200 doses in a single day: "This proves my point that African-American older adults are not 'hesitant,'" an organizer says.
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On Friday at church, a Baltimore Catholic priest and school officials demanded that a girl take off her gay pride shirt. Today, her classmates - and many adults - showed up at St. Francis of Assisi Church to support her.
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Some cheer as Martin O'Malley addresses crowd. Others: "go home, you locked up half my zip code"!"
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BREAKING- Error by the Baltimore Elections Board - thousands of improperly registered voters - is discovered after a District 43A voter is sent a Dist. 45 absentee ballot. "If I hadn't questioned it, we may not have discovered the error til Election Day,”
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BREAKING: STILL MORE questions for @Nick_Mosby , Bmore's likely next CC President. House he co-owns in W. Balto. is not registered as a rental unit and is not lead-certified. His bus partner asserts Mosby "probably doesn't know where property is any more."
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. @Blklivesmatter activist @deray lands $165K/yr job with @BaltCitySchools .
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. @BaltimorePolice officer, stripped of police powers after fatally shooting an unarmed teen, kept on payroll for 28 years Report by @OIG_Baltimore faults BPD for keeping him on w/ full pay/benefits & generous OT. @BaltimoreBrew confirms his identity.
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TIMELINE of scanner transmissions that shows - hours before 30 were shot, 2 fatally - @BaltimorePolice were getting calls for help and knew Brooklyn Day was out of control, but stayed back. "Foxtrot is overhead. We're not going in the crowd."
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UPDATE - Some reports of Dali's past troubles: In 2016 it crashed into its berth in the Port of Antwerp. And according to the NY Times, an inspection last year in Chile reported the vessel had a deficiency "related to propulsion and auxiliary machinery."
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EXCLUSIVE: Marilyn Mosby and @Nick_Mosby haven't paid their city water bill in a year - and owe $907.63 according to the city's @BaltimoreDPW website
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The first skatepark in a Black community in Baltimore has been put on hold. Here's why skkateboarders and others are protesting this decision at a City Hall rally at 4:30 today. .
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In Baltimore, Spider Sis, doing her ( #SpottedLanternFly ) part! 🙏
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Baltimore today approves $41 million for new helicopters and cars for @BaltimorePolice - with no debate and minimal public disclosure. [They're a kind of copter made famous when one of them landed on the summit of Mt. Everest.]
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Nick Mosby isn't paying his city water bills - AGAIN. The City Council Pres, who votes on water rate hikes and makes $138,000 a yr, hasn't paid anything for the last 15 months, city records show.
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Pull! Pull! Protesters cried. And within seconds Baltimore’s #Columbus statue came crashing down. Video by @louiskraussnews for @BaltimoreBrew .
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Protesters just took down the Christopher Columbus statue in Baltimore’s Little Italy.
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83-year-old Mimi Bodow was among those in Baltimore's #BreonnaTaylor protest last night. “I was arrested 5 times in Georgia during the civil rights movement,” the Catholic sister told @jmgpix . "I think these kids are wonderful, I think we have a movement"
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Baltimore renters would have the right to a lawyer in eviction cases, under a bill introduced last night by @CouncilPresBMS . The goal: prevent homelessness and balance the landlord-tenant power dynamic.
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Seismic shift in the Baltimore media landscape: @baltimoresun discloses it's been acquired by David Smith, exec chair of ultra-conservative, Hunt Valley-based TV station owner @WeAreSinclair Shocked staffers on X: "I don't even really have words."
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RE the 7th congressional race, let's not forget the ex-beauty contestant who sparked @realDonaldTrump 's twitterstorm against #ElijahCummimgs and #baltimoretrash :
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Ahead of the cryptosporidium finding in Druid Lake, Baltimore was told repeatedly, for years, to end open-air drinking water storage there. Testing for the parasite only started at that reservoir in late July because @EPA ordered @BaltimoreDPW to do it.
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One of the last pictures of the Francis Scott Key Bridge before its collapse. Seen from Bear Creek at 4:30 p.m. on March 25. The Brew was out in the harbor on another assignment. More pics of the bridge here:
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Giving from the grave? Marilyn Mosby's grandfather contributed to her and her husband’s campaigns - but the contributions came AFTER Prescott Thompson's death in 2015, records indicate.
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. @CouncilPresBMS , squeaks out a come-from-behind win in the Democratic mayoral primary over @SheilaDixonBalt , leading the way for a younger, more reform-minded set of leaders to step into City Hall at a time of great challenge for #Baltimore .
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In an unprecedented move, the Baltimore Bd of Ethics rules today that @Nick_Mosby violated ethics rules by soliciting $$ to defray legal costs incurred by him and his wife @MarilynMosbyEsq . (Story to come)
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The goats are here!
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Release the goats! Here at Wyman Park Dell where community members fundraised to use goats as an eco-friendly way to munch through the weeds on the hill next to BMA. @BaltimoreBrew
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Activists made good on their promise tonight. Chanting "Hey hey, ho ho, this racist guy has got to go" they pulled Baltimore's Columbus statue down and dumped it in the water.
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WHO OWNS THE VACANTS IN BALTIMORE'S BROOKLYN AND CURTIS BAY NEIGHBORHOODS? Students at Ben Franklin High School chart the locations of the owners of 517 vacant buildings with outstanding housing code violations.
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EXCLUSIVE: @MarilynMosbyEsq dipped into her campaign coffers to pay nearly $50,000 to criminal defense lawyers, despite Maryland law prohibiting such expenditures, @BaltimoreBrew 's review of her campaign report shows.
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EXCLUSIVE: @MarilynMosbyEsq purchased a $476,000 condominium in Florida last month, just weeks before news broke that she and husband @Nick_Mosby are under investigation by federal prosecutors.
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Discovered by archaeologists in a Baltimore park: Native American artifacts 5,000-9,000 years old. Projectile points and pottery this old have been found in Maryland. . . but not in the city for a very long time. "It's a shocker, for Baltimore!"
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JUST IN - Verdict in the Marilyn Mosby trial: Convicted on both counts of perjury.
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Not only are goats coming to chomp weeds at Wyman Park Dell at noon tomorrow, Friday 10/14 (not today because of the rain) but now we learn that on Saturday at 3 p.m., area jazz musicians will be on hand to serenade them, via @odetteramos #GoatJazz
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.⁦ @JohnsHopkins ⁩ students furious with ⁦ @BaltimorePolice ⁩ for not putting trans student in women’s van. “Your friend is a man!” An officer says, sparking outrage. ⁦ @TheGarlandSitIn
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A company owned by the husband of Deputy Mayor Letitia Dzirasa got a no bid contract to overhaul the city's website that has doubled in price. Today the Board of Estimates is set to OK another $250,000 to address "unforeseen complexities."
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No City Hall invitee came, but the Save Our Block rally in Poppleton drew a crowd of supporters with strong words: Displacing a Black community for a project stalled for years is wrong and “done without any thought for the people who have lived here.”
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At #Baltimore 's Federal Hill, activists have just replaced the American flag with the #BlackLivesMatter and #TransLivesMatter flags, @jmgpix reports
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. @BaltimorePolice allows officers to take paid leave and OT simultaneously - even if the hours overlap. The practice “could be perceived as wasteful,” @OIG_Baltimore says, in a new report, noting this has been permitted for years under agreements w/ @FOP3
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. @baltimoresun reports @FBI investigating @MarilynMosbyEsq & @Nick_Mosby no mention that much of what they're investigating was 1st reported by @BaltimoreBrew . Read Mark Reutter's stories here. (Note also that @fox45 first reported the $45,000 tax lien.)
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The deaf and hard of hearing community says @MayorBMScott has stopped using interpreters at many mayoral and other events. By ignoring their pleas that he resume, they said, his administration is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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After we broke stories about @MarilynMosbyEsq 's travel and Mahogany Elite and her other private business, her use of campaign funds and more, @FBI , as @baltimoresun just reported, has opened an investigation. Here's the first of those stories.
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ELECTION SURPRISE: Thanks to mail-in ballots, U.S. Rep. David Trone has defeated Republican challenger Neil Parrott in MD's far western 6th District. Means 7 of 8 Congressional seats are in Democratic hands.
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Someone took a sledgehammer to 225-yr-old Columbus statue in #Baltimore and posted video
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After saying E. coli contamination was limited to 3 city buildings, @BaltimoreDPW has now issued a boil-water advisory for a 50+square-block area in West Baltimore and outlined a "precautionary" zone that includes parts of Anne Arundel & Baltimore counties
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The big magnolia trees - that @JohnsHopkins promised to protect - were badly damaged by its demolition of the 29th St. rowhouses, the Baltimore City Forestry Board Chair says. "It's pretty much irreversible."
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BREAKING: $115,000 requested by @BaltimorePolice to buy AT308 Remington SNIPER RIFLES from a Denver, CO., supplier was JUST WITHDRAWN by Bd of Estimates. BREW wrote about the request on Monday:
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Can @FrancaMullerPaz win a seat on the #Baltimore city council as -gasp!- a non-Democrat? She's challenging Robert Stokes and launched her campaign yesterday w/ speeches, bikes, jazz, cumbia, ranchera, union songs & hip-hop @mdgreens @baltimoregreens
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.⁦ @BaltimorePolice ⁩ moving to tackle and taze Alonso Foley after he pours gas around his tent and lights his lighter.
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Cab Calloway house is being demolished RIGHT NOW.
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EXCLUSIVE - Guns, cash and drugs confiscated by @BaltimorePolice haven't been properly tracked for years, a state audit finds. Of 47 seizures sampled, involving $580,701 in cash, BPD cd provide a receipt for only one seizure totaling $6,460, auditors found
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Local activist group @BmoreBloc , giving @mayorbcyoung a deadline, warn that they will tear down #Baltimore 's Columbus statues if he doesn't remove them.
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. @Nick_Mosby pays his delinquent water bills after Brew story is posted today. Just a quick electronic transfer - and no late fees - for the City Council Prez, who will be lecturing schoolkids on the importance of personal finance this Saturday.
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BREAKING - In a very rare move, after @BaltimoreBrew reports a request to send ex-finance director Henry Raymond to a private company's 5-day conference in Orlando using City funds -Raymond retired last month- @MayorBMScott today withdraws the request.
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. @AntonioHayes40 mocked backers of a West Baltimore skatepark saying, given 24 hours, they couldn't find even 10 people in the neighborhood who support the idea. The group's comeback: In 2 hours they got 243 pro-skatepark signatures.
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The cheeky live-tweeting of scanner transmissions by the new group @scanthepolice has held a harsh mirror up to the @BaltimorePolice - who are now proposing to encrypt scanner transmissions - "a gigantic step backwards" for transparency says @ACLU_MD .
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My artsy shot simultaneously depicting ⁦ @MayorPugh50 ⁩’s house, the media scrum and the donut holes in the FBI agent’s car.
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Two different Baltimore neighborhoods (Woodberry in 2019, Poppleton yesterday) but the same demoralizing experience: Surprise demolition of 1840s buildings they were trying hard to save and city leaders doing nothing to stop it.
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NO SHOW AGAIN - Baltimore Sheriff John Anderson was supposed to appear this morning before the City Council after he skipped last week’s budget hearing without explanation. Again, today he was a no-show. The 75-yr-old is seeking a 9th term in next month’s Democratic primary.
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BREAKING - MARILYN MOSBY FILES FOR DIVORCE. Ex-Baltimore state's attorney seeks child custody and limited divorce from her husband of 17 years, Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby. A BREW EXCLUSIVE:
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In July 2020, @MarilynMosbyEsq wrote a letter to @OIG_Baltimore demanding an investigation into @BaltimoreBrew reporting . . . that, as Mosby said yesterday, eventually "snowballed" into "ultimately, a federal indictment" of herself.
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Massive protest in #Baltimore shuts down I-83, as they pass by marchers shout to people in the prison: "We love you!" #GeorgeFloydProtests
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We have a "rainy day fund" - well, the rainy day has arrived, say advocates, calling on @mayorbcyoung & others to approve emergency housing & food protection to help renters, the homeless & all who are struggling in #Baltimore OPEN LETTER/OP-ED #COVID19
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After munching though a Wyman Park Dell hillside in 2020, the goats are returning - at noon on Thursday - to supply Baltimore with more sustainable weed control ... and cuteness.
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Two Johns Hopkins experts get an earful for appearing to talk down to a #Baltimore City Councilman who objected to @BaltCitySchools ' plan to return to in-person learning this week. @Zeke_Cohen @ggronvall @JenniferNuzzo @JHSPH_CHS
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Baltimore closing Druid Hill Park for a $10-a-car drive-thru holiday light show feels really wrong when so many residents don't have cars, or access to well-kept parks/ playgrounds/functioning city pools [OP-ED] #BikersAndWalkersEachGetOneDayAndPayMore
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People have been standing outside @BaltCitySchools HQ in the blasting heat to get computer tablets and hotspot devices for their children's distance learning. On Thursday there were about 100 people in line. #NoWaterShadeTentsOrChairs #KidsAndElders
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Ed the goat had been returned!!!
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Stolen Goat Returned  On May 19, 2020, at about 9:52 p.m., Southern District was notified that the baby goat stolen earlier that morning from the 1300 block of Filbert Street was anonymously returned. The owners are overjoyed and thankful that Ed is home safe and unharmed.
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BREAKING - Deputy Mayor Ted Carter has been temporarily suspended following an internal investigation, @BaltimoreBrew has learned. Spokeswoman for @MayorBMScott says the mayor’s office will not comment on personnel matters.
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Hiding in plain sight in public docs: @MarilynMosbyEsq accepted more in travel reimbursements than any other elected official in Maryland. She was gone 85 days in 2018/19. Hats off to @BaltimoreBrew 's diligent @raniound for finding this.
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Those @BaltimorePolice misconduct gag orders are a policy choice @mayorbcyoung could reverse any time. Responding to today's Appeals Court ruling that they're unconstitutional, City Solicitor Davis says . . . he'll seek a re-hearing.
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Hats off to the team un-clogging the Jones Falls today!
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At this year's @MDDCPress awards, @BaltimoreBrew won the top prize for Investigative Reporting (for coverage of the Mosbys) and the James S. Keat Freedom of Information Award (for inspectors general reporting) And @jmgpix won for powerful photos like this
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. @BaltimorePolice didn't intervene - and the two hired security guards were quickly overwhelmed - as #Baltimore 's Columbus statue was yanked down and thrown in the Jones Falls last night
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Amid pressure from @BTUBaltimore and others, @BaltCitySchools delays reopening
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UPDATE: @odetteramos will vote to sustain @MayorBMScott 's veto of the Security Deposit bill. Link to her statement can be found here. [Others who have said they will vote to sustain include: @ElectRyanDorsey @Zeke_Cohen @docbullock @PhyliciaPorter_ ]
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BREAKING: @MayorBMScott **will** veto the Security Deposit Alternatives bill. [Our earlier story from this morning ]
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A Judge has ordered the city to pay Ashley Underwood, who won her gag order challenge against @BaltimorePolice , the $31,500 she’s owed + interest. Documents show even at the end, city was pushing to pay her only $1 @ACLU_MD @mayorbcyoung
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Local media's missteps are hurting Baltimore, @Serps writes. Two recent examples show how bad information and spin, accepted unquestioningly from law enforcement, reinforce racist narratives about our city [OP-ED]
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One way @GovLarryHogan is failing on #Covid_19 - not advising Marylanders against travel to hot-spot states and not issuing an order advising those who do go, to quarantine upon return. [OP-ED]
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She's doing it - @SenMaryW43 is running for #Baltimore mayor, taking on @mayorbcyoung , @CouncilPresBMS and the others. She's kicking off her campaign tomorrow with a multi-stop tour of the city.
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TV Hill residents are alarmed: Workers have been blasting paint off the big TV tower, causing flakes of red paint to rain down on yards and streets. At least one person tested a paint chip and it came back positive for lead No response yet from 3 stations
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Beyond Healthy Holly; What's UNhealthy at Baltimore's once-public hospitals: how their executives pay themselves millions, strip employees of rights and sue impoverished patients. OP-ED
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“Liar liar gentrifier!” The crowd chants, walking through Little Italy after throwing #Baltimore ’s Columbus statue into the water. “Black people used to live here!”
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Baltimore razes the Wyman Park Dell homeless encampment and hauls off people's belongings - two days *before* the City's posted sign said they would. "It hurts," a woman who'd been living there said tearfully. "We could have saved that stuff."
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Amid blistering Baltimore heat, families are asking @MayorBMScott administration: how can it be that two city pools are closed for the season and a third has yet to open?? The Brew's @laurafayy gets to @RecNParks . "Broken motors," they say.
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The line to vote at Baltimore’s Edmondson High School? It’s looooooooonnngggg!
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Baltimore, can you help Nathaniel's mom find Dinosaur, a faithful friend he's had by his side for 15 years? After the plastic brachiosaurus was left behind at a restaurant, she's pondering, fingers crossed, all he's meant to Nate.
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It was disappointing that @FOXBaltimore re-reported our story on @MarilynMosbyEsq 's travels & odd LLC w/o crediting us. But we're glad to have other media follow-up on scoops like this and add some reporting- as long as they credit us, which they have now
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Told by the City to move out of homes they love to make way for a NY developer's 16-year-old, trouble-plagued project - that mostly never happened - the residents of Poppleton say: NO Rally planned Saturday. So far no help from @Nick_Mosby @MayorBMScott
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@BaltimoreBrew
Baltimore Brew
3 years
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@ron_cassie
Ron Cassie
3 years
Nice to see Baltimore Sun finally acknowledging @BaltimoreBrew for breaking this and linking their story. It's not just about giving credit where due, but good journalism that shares valuable sources for further reading when possible. Kudos @PDavis_LLC
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@BaltimoreBrew
Baltimore Brew
5 years
A new analysis of investment patterns shows how decades-old housing policy that divided #Baltimore by race still has the city locked in a landscape of “haves” and “have nots.” @urbaninstitute
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@BaltimoreBrew
Baltimore Brew
4 years
WHAT THE HECK? Baltimore's retired deputy comptroller Harriette Taylor (pictured on right), returned to City Hall last week & shredded city documents. @OIG_Baltimore found & removed shredded papers. Comptroller Joan Pratt confirms incident to The BREW.
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@BaltimoreBrew
Baltimore Brew
2 years
Clubowners say developers and others are behind The Block crackdown. We found $177,000 in contributions from Scott Plank, Caves Valley Partners, @Atlas__Group 's Alex Smith and others No connection, say @SenBillFerg & @BrookeELierman A "conspiracy theory"
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Baltimore Brew
4 years
Congrats to @BaltSchoolArts senior Zoe Jackson, @jmgpix 's student. This photo by her in @BaltimoreBrew was just chosen by @LewisMuseum for their permanent collection. Now she's off to @mica and more great things.
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Baltimore Brew
3 years
With no help from the City, the people of Poppleton kicked out the drug dealers, created a park and made their rainbow-colored street and spiffed-up homes into a W. Baltimore showplace. Now, for a long-stalled development, @bmoredhcd is making them leave
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Baltimore Brew
4 years
A $6M no-bid contract to a just-formed company, run by two educators who faced ethics complaints, is withdrawn from the #Baltimore school bd agenda after parent @melissa_schober voiced concern @BaltCitySchools spox said she didn't know why it was pulled
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