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Covering Maryland politics for @baltimorebanner . Alum of @baltimoresun , @capgaznews , @thedbk . Also a gymnast. she/her. Tips: pamela.wood @thebaltimorebanner .com

Annapolis, Bmore & in-between
Joined May 2009
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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The @BaltimoreBanner voters guide is up for the 2024 primaries. This is your cheat sheet for the candidates for mayor, city council president, city council, Congress, Senate and some suburban school boards. (It's also pretty)
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Protesters got a lieutenant to read the names of police brutality victims.
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For anyone watching gymnastics tonight, I can 100% assure you that the commentators are not overselling Simone Biles’ greatness. Her technique and power are absolutely unmatched. The most extraordinary gymnast I have ever seen. And I watch A LOT of gymnastics.
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As demonstrators prepare to move on from police HQ, a few shake hands with the officers. The lieutenant who read the names was Lt. Peter Heron. He encouraged protesters to be safe.
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This is not funny, cute or fashionable, @Forever21 . Why are you selling this product?
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Turns out, all you need to express your hatred for journalists in clothing form is $9.90, to be given to @Forever21 ! Wow, so affordable!
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Maryland @GovLarryHogan : “I think there’s no question that America would be better off if the President would resign or be removed from office." Pence should lead the nation until Jan. 20.
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More support for @capgaznews in Annapolis parade.
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The Baltimore Sun’s health reporter is furloughed in the middle of a pandemic. If you think that’s nuts, consider emailing our CEO Terry Jimenez (terry.jimenez @tribpub .com). Our company should support quality journalism, not impede it. @SaveOurSun
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@Tim_Prudente I, too, am furloughed. No coronavirus stories from this health reporter until next week.
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@Bloomingdales @akadennews Hi, @bloomingdales . Apologizing "for any offense we may have caused" is not a sincere apology. This is not about journalists' hurt feelings. This is about damage done to our democracy when your brand joins in perpetuating and celebrating the idea of "fake news." Please try again.
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Look who came to Baltimore today: @chefjoseandres of @WCKitchen . They’re distributing thousands of meals on Wednesdays and Fridays. One of many efforts to address food insecurity during the coronavirus pandemic. 🎥: @y00lz
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Light applause as a male demonstrator convinced a female officer to give him a hug.
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Harbor East drivers are on board. Holy heck, it’s so loud with all of these cars honking their horns. Some drivers have fists raised or are filming.
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@sunjeffbarker Statement from Maryland @GovLarryHogan on the death of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Baltimore:
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Hey @WSJ , let me fix this tweet for you: Among the victims was Rob Hiaasen, a gifted writer and mentor to young journalists.
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The Wall Street Journal
6 years
Among the victims was Rob Hiaasen, the brother of author and Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiassen
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3 years
BREAKING: On his first full day on the job, @MayorBMScott shuts down all in-person dining in Baltimore City in hopes of slowing the surging coronavirus pandemic. Carryout still allowed. More details at this story, which will be updated:
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Sun Latest News
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Baltimore to shut down indoor and outdoor dining as coronavirus surge continues
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This motorist agrees with the protesters.
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For my @capgaznews brothers and sisters.
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Protesters block President/Lombard for a bit before moving on.
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. @GovLarryHogan is promo'ing his book at Harvard University online chat. Students are firing tough questions at him, including @ruthatruth on long gun background checks & @davidhogg111 on Red Line cancellation/attacking Baltimore structural problems.
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Protestors loudly chanting names outside the Loch Bar in Harbor East, whew people are having dinner.
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Today is SUNDAY, June 28 -- Freedom of the Press Day in Maryland. The day was created after five of my colleagues at @capgaznews were murdered on 6/28/2008. Please remember them: Gerald Fischman. Rob Hiaasen. John McNamara. Rebecca Smith. Wendi Winters.
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“Power to the people!” Outside the Four Seasons. And the group is on the move again.
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Cleaning out files, I found a letter I sent to @baltimoresun looking for a job in May 2011. I wasn't hired until nearly 2 yrs later. I kept applying each time someone left. Finally they hired me. Now I have my dream job as State House reporter. Moral of the story: Stick with it.
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@mtomasky @VetteLewis French media are in forced blackout period just before/during election day.
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Crowd is amped up, outside the Four Seasons Hotel. For those who don’t know Baltimore, this is Harbor East, one of the poshest developments in our city.
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6 years
Two students, one male one female, are in the hospital. School resource officer not injured. Incident happened at about 7:45 am in hallway at start of school day.
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I’m going to Annapolis today. I’m going to help put the damn paper out. #PressOn
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I can tell you this: We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow.
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Today’s car protest has reached Penn/North. This woman is playing drums in the bed of a truck.
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Rob was great. I cried in his office on my last day at The Capital. He once called me a “steely-eyed missile man,” a compliment that I forever treasured. This should not have happened.
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Capital Gazette editor Rob Hiaasen identified as victim of shooting at newspaper
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I helped my friends put out the paper. ✊
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Capital Gazette
6 years
Check out today's edition of the Capital Gazette. The eNewspaper is included with a print subscription or part of our digital subscription platform. Try it at:
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Flags lowered in Annapolis.
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My people. @capgaznews
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Jury awards tens of millions In Korryn Gaines lawsuit.
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Very Baltimore moment: A cover band is playing in a bar and when they get to “My Girl,” half the bar sings along, but substituting “Bob Turk!” in the chorus. @wjz @TurkWJZ
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I don’t think Loch Bar’s tables are all six feet apart.
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Some protesters remain at police headquarters, while I’m following a group headed south down President Street.
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Businessman Stewart Bainum Jr. has a deal to buy Baltimore Sun Media Group and operate us under a new nonprofit. Unfortunately, the rest of Tribune Publishing is being sold to hedge fund Alden Global Capital, which is truly awful.
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Demonstrators are now outside the Charleston, probably the most expensive restaurant in Baltimore. Definitely one of the fanciest. (Twitter, correct me if I’m wrong.)
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. @GovLarryHogan has had nothing to say about the president trashing the state’s largest city on Twitter. We got this statement from his spokesman.
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The Baltimore Sun
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@realDonaldTrump @RepCummings A spokesman for @GovLarryHogan said, “Baltimore City is truly the very heart of our state, and more attacks between politicians aren’t going to get us anywhere.”
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Maryland’s @RepRaskin has been named the lead manager of the House impeachment proceedings by @SpeakerPelosi .
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In Baltimore, @DrTishCommish says we shouldn't be planning Thanksgiving gatherings. AT ALL. This is the strongest public health advice against gatherings that I've seen since Easter.
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Outside police headquarters, a crowd is chanting the names of victims of police brutality.
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No no no no please no. “Alden Global Capital, the hedge fund that has amassed a newspaper empire, said on Thursday that it is bidding for full control of Tribune Publishing, the parent of publications like The Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun.”
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Dem presidential candidate @PeteButtigieg wrote an op-ed about Maryland's lawsuit over funding of historically black colleges and universities & his plans for HBCUs. Meanwhile, there was a rally in Annapolis today urging the state to settle the lawsuit.
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You guys, I've made it. Thank you, @ratemyskyperoom ! That is indeed a tiny succulent. No comment on the light saber. Watch my full interview about the latest in Maryland Politics on @mptnews at 7 pm Eastern or on YouTube:
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Lamp. Orchid. Possible tiny succulent and maybe a light saber. 8/10 @pwoodreporter
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5 years
Today’s @baltimoresun front page: A strong voice stilled.
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3 years
I would like to read a story about some of the truck drivers driving those first trailers of the Pfizer vaccine. What a responsibility! We often forget how crucial truck drivers are in our life. They really don’t get their due.
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6 years
$32M+ to Kodi Gaines. $4.5M+ to Karsyn, who is Korryn’s daughter. $307K to Korryn’s mom. $300K to Korryn’s dad. $300K to Korryn’s estate.
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1/90. It’s a beautiful winter morning in Annapolis. With so much of the General Assembly session happening remotely, I won’t have as many pictures as usual. But I’ll still bring you some scenes from Annapolis from now through Sine Die.
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NEW: A top-ranking Maryland lawmaker ( @Willcsmithjr ) is proposing a sweeping set of police reforms, including banning violent police tactics, making disciplinary records public and ending the purchase of military equipment for officers.
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A lot of people have been waiting three years to see this.
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Before complaining about paying for news, remember this: Reporters at community newspapers such as @capgaznews — where 5 of my colleagues were murdered — have a starting salary of $30K. Name me another college-degree job that pays so little. I’ll wait.
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With everyone talking about Sinclair, it's a good time to re-up this one: Sinclair is getting $1.43M in taxpayer assistance to keep/expand its headquarters in Hunt Valley, MD. ($1.3M from state of Maryland, $130K from Baltimore County)
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A federal cancer research bill inspired by the late Henrietta Lacks of Turner Station -- whose cells were taken without consent at Hopkins for medical research -- won final approval.
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Is going out on St. Patrick's Day a smart idea? cc: @justin_fenton
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Tronc is hiring for a corporate labor relations exec whose job description literally includes fighting off unionization efforts: “maintaining the non-union status of the unorganized employee population”
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Holy moly
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Congratulations to @baltimoresun . #Pulitzer
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Trump at Boulevard Diner in Dundalk. Crowd cheers Trump! Trump! Trump!
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Happy Labor Day. I’m joining my @baltsunguild colleagues in withholding my byline for one week, beginning today, to call attention to our contract negotiations with @tribpub management. We go back to the negotiating table on Sept. 10. (thread, 1/6)
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For fans of Lawyers Mall, it’s finally open. And Justice Marshall is no longer under wraps.
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There’s some ... not sure what’s going on here ... words exchanged? Crowd chants: “Stay focused! Stay focused!” This is in Fells Point.
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@OmarJimenez My husband played Overwatch (and still plays) with a person in Canada and now we are great friends and have traveled back and forth multiple times. (Before coronavirus, of course.) Online gaming FTW.
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Capital-Gazette runs multiple papers out of the Annapolis office: - The Capital (daily, Annapolis) - Md Gazette (2x/wk, northern Anne Arundel) - Bowie Blade-News (weekly) - Crofton-West County News (weekly) - Capital Style (magazine)
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. @GovLarryHogan : “In two weeks around Easter, we are going to be looking more like New York. It’s continuing to grow at really frightening paces, and we think it’s going to be worse in two weeks, not better.”
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President Trump said he would like to “have the country opened up” by Easter. But governors, including Hogan, and medical professionals have indicated Maryland and other states would continue to see increases, and distancing measures would likely continue.
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My niece (2nd grade) gave me this card and I am dying, she totally gets 2020.
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Wendi was a true salt of the earth person. She was so proud of her children. She was passionate about covering her community. How many “teen of the week” and “home of the week” stories are in people’s scrapbooks? And her epic holiday letters were the best. This is all so unfair.
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The Baltimore Sun
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Capital Gazette shooting victim Wendi Winters: A prolific writer who chronicled her community.
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Hogan: Executive order shuts down all bars, restaurants, movies and gyms at 5 pm. Drive thru and carry out OK.
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Scene at Baltimore City Hall. “Hey hey, ho ho! Racist cops have got to go!”
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The shooter who fired at Great Mills HS used a handgun, the sheriff says.
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Hey, @dog_rates , please meet Lily. She is a very good dog who helps child victims testify in court. I think she's worth 14/10, would let her comfort me any time.
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Lily, a 5-year-old labradoodle, was the first of her Comfort Canine colleagues to take the witness stand in a Maryland court Nov. 7, comforting a child while she testified as a rape survivor in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court.
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New year, new beat: I’m now covering Maryland state politics alongside @lukebroadwater in @baltimoresun ’s State House bureau in Annapolis. I welcome your news tips and story suggestions: pwood @baltsun .com.
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Annapolis High School graduate declines Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Trump.
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Bill Wagner
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Legendary @Patriots head coach Bill Belichick has declined to accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Donald Trump in light of last week's "tragic events."
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Maryland ordered $12.5M worth of masks and ventilators. When they didn't come after 30 days, the state canceled the deal and sought an investigation of the politically-connected company. My follow to @WSJ 's scoop.
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@TrueFactsStated Claude Taylor also brought a sign that he put up on a pole that makes it look like President Street is also named “Barack Obama Way.” It’s been up for several hours and it hasn’t been taken down yet.
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This just in: Maryland is in line to get 49,600 doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine this week. Will go to mass vax sites, hospitals, health departements, community health centers. We do not yet know the numbers of how many are going where.
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Among those paying their respects to Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul.
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OK, Maryland, did everyone just get the alert?
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Three cheers for @lizbowie , who has been the indefatigable champion of getting @baltimoresun sold. I am cautiously optimistic about the new future for The Sun, thanks in large part to Liz's efforts.
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YAAAAY. That's all I can say right now. The Baltimore Sun to be acquired by nonprofit from Tribune Publishing
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I’m about to be furloughed (again) by @tribpub , so you won’t be hearing from me for the next week. I’m the only State House reporter at @baltimoresun right now. What stories won’t get covered while I’m gone? Take a look at what I covered this past week:
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As night starts to fall, I'm starting to get worried for the press on the ground in D.C. Especially the TV crews who are broadcasting live. I would not feel safe out there tonight.
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I worked at The Capital for ten years. These folks are the best. Trying to hold together.
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The Baltimore Sun
6 years
Shooting reported at Capital-Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, staff say.
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On the move in Fells.
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“We’re here. They see us,” she says. No need to interrupt their dinner.
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The Maryland governor’s mansion is lit purple for the @Ravens . #mdga20
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6 years
Ahem, @tronc : We need investments in our newsrooms. We can’t put out quality news if we don’t have sufficient staff.
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When you're in person covering a school mtg & are also streaming a gov't mtg b/c you're the only reporter on staff and are literally trying to be in 2 places at once
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Diners at Bar Vasquez applauded as the protesters passed by.
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Protest is wrapping up. @ElectPastorWest says last night, protesters demanded to talk to the commissioner. That led to a 1.5-hr meeting today. Says that resulted in the officer who punched the woman being fired. (*we were only told he was pulled from the street, I believe)
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