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Trump's anti-DEI agenda attacks BLACK ECONOMIC POWER! Dia Harris built a 30-year career, only to be fired, publicly blacklisted and left earning $16 an hour. This isn't about ending discrimination. It's about stripping Black Americans of the economic power generations built! wapo.st/4zVn6Mt
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Dubious resolution passed by the Baltimore County Council benefits a major developer tinyurl.com/4shvy7j2
A county program intended to help owners of properties in distressed commercial areas is quickly and quietly applied to an upscale project in Catonsville [OP-ED]
ALT A benefactor of the County Council’s latest land-use gambit: Stephen Whalen’s proposed Promenade development in Catonsville. (whalenproperties.com)
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Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates and Mayor Brandon Scott announce indictments of Tyree Reynolds & Montray McCray.
Reynolds is accused of killing 12 y/o Khloe Ishway.
McCray is accused of killing 76 y/o Claudia Bismark.
Bates says his office will seek life sentences.
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WATCH: Baltimore City is saddled up with $3 billion in debt, but that hasn't kept city leaders from asking to borrow millions of dollars more.
The city is asking voters to approve four separate bond issues, which would allow the city to borrow $280 million.
Most of the money would go toward public infrastructure, but tonight accountants are asking why.
Tune into FOX45 at 10 p.m. to learn more: bit.ly/4grwJt0
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Baltimore to pay $11 million to settle claims against its unconstitutional eviction law. tinyurl.com/336n4r2e A 2007 “abandonment ordinance” allowed landlords to lock out evicted renters and keep their clothes, furniture, family photos and other possessions.
ALT Thomas Rudis lost his plants, some of his artwork and other personal belongings when he was evicted last July. (Fern Shen)
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A city-commissioned review of improper payments and oversight failures in Baltimore’s SideStep youth diversion program has missed Mayor Brandon Scott’s promised deadline, while the city has declined to disclose how much taxpayers are paying for the examination. bit.ly/4klSajW
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🚨 Retired Navy captain and Florida congressional candidate Bale Dalton on the Iran war:
“We have such a clown show in the Pentagon right now.”
“We're in a war with no strategic end state... that's sinking our economy and putting our servicemen and women in harm's way with no stated goal.”
WATCH.
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An unlicensed cab driver is charged with kidnapping a 15-year-old girl and forcing her into his basement apartment on Garrison Boulevard in Northwest Baltimore.
Police say he stabbed her at least 5 times, leaving her with a collapsed lung.
She fought back and hit him with a fire extinguisher then ran down the street naked and bloody where she eventually got help. @wjz
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Behind the Scenes: How did Maryland lure defense tech company Anduril Industries to Tradepoint Atlantic?
It involved a key text to the governor, a secret trip to California, crabs at Costas Inn.
@HayesGardner, @rkobell and I have all the details:
thebanner.com/economy/growth…
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Senior Balto City official accused of bank fraud during the Covid pandemic pleads not guilty today. Despite federal indictment, Kara DiPietro apparently remains on city's payroll. Scott admin refuses to comment on her status, but cancels her trip to Texas. tinyurl.com/et3kctft
ALT Kara DiPietro was arraigned today at the U.S. courthouse on West Lombard Street.
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Historic lawsuit challenging government over climate inaction begins trial hearings | CBC News cbc.ca/news/science/climate-…
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Baltimore’s plan to send mental health clinicians and other nonpolice responders to thousands of 911 calls a year is drawing new warnings from fire unions and city lawmakers, who question whether the proposed system can be funded for the long haul without compromising emergency response. Read more: bit.ly/4zUgTk1
📸: Kevin Richardson, @baltimoresun
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Texas Continued Permitting Data Centers After Abbott’s Pause, Report Finds - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/1…
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Corporate landlords have been using AI to secretly inflate your rent. They call it innovation, I call it collusion.
That's why the Council just unanimously passed my bill, the Anti-Algorithmic Price Fixing Act (Bill 8-26), to ban this practice outright.
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Franklin Square residents wanted a stop sign at Calhoun & Fayette for decades. Three weeks ago, 60 residents/allies shared why. After meetings with @MayorBMScott @BmoreCityDOT and BUILD’s action, there’s a new stop sign! Grateful for this big step forward. #MakeFreedomConcrete
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Up to 2,600 Maryland residents, including 1,500 households, could lose federal housing aid as the Department of Housing and Urban Development shifts funding from permanent supportive housing; grants expire Jan. 31, with awards due Dec. 1. Lower Shore nonprofits say they lack capacity — Diakonia’s Ken Argot warns: “There is nowhere for them to go.” Maryland and other states are challenging HUD's funding changes in court, with the outcome potentially determining which programs retain federal support.
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The Baltimore Children and Youth Fund awarded $250,000 in taxpayer funds this year to a nonprofit that hasn't had a publicly available tax form since 2023, raising transparency concerns about how it spends tax dollars. bit.ly/3VYixCE
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Many thanks to the Columbia Journalism Review for the nice write-up about the recent piece in @BaltimoreBrew by @MaddiONeill about ICE. tinyurl.com/23xmk64b
Nayeli remains in @ICEgov detention more than a week after this story ran. #wegotalaurel @CJR
ALT It’s easy to get inured to the haphazard absurdity and tragedy of so many ICE arrests, but every now and then, you read about one that sets a new low. A few weeks ago, an asylum-seeker named Nayeli showed up at a Maryland courthouse to resolve a $12.08 McDonald’s debt to her former employer. She had left the company, but had apparently forgotten to delete the firm’s credit card from the McDonald’s app; in any case, Nayeli’s mother had already paid the debt back. No matter. Her old boss took her to court, and once she was there, four plainclothes law enforcement officers took her away; she was then shuttled off to a detention center in Virginia, where she awaits a hearing. This brief laurel describes only the gist; for the full details, read Madeleine O’Neill’s excellent piece in the Baltimore Brew.