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New GBC leader plans to mobilize business community to tackle Baltimore’s vacant housing crisis
The pro-business group wants to lead the business community in solving the city’s vacant house crisis, which CEO Mark Anthony Thomas views as an existential threat to the region’s economic vitality.
Mark Anthony Thomas is an urbanist and economic development official, who began his career as a creative and poet.  Thomas hails from Pittsburgh with a mission of reshaping the Greater Baltimore Committee (GBC), Baltimore's pro-business advocacy group.
Baltimore housing authority dismisses 200 eviction cases after tenants allege violations
The Housing Authority of Baltimore City dismissed dozens of cases Wednesday May 24, 2023 after tenants alleged mistreatment and violations during the eviction process.
Outside Baltimore City District Court, a small group of advocates urged the city’s housing authority to halt evictions against public housing tenants. A short while later, all the day’s cases were dismissed.
Maryland schools are teaching kids to talk through conflict. Does it work?
A reader asked The Baltimore Banner to investigative what techniques schools are using to diffuse violence.
Peer mediators act out a role play exercise at City Springs Elementary and Middle School in Baltimore, Wednesday, May 10, 2023.
Baltimore isn’t accessible for people with disabilities. Fixing it would cost over $650 million.
The scope of the problem in Baltimore is enormous, city documents show.
Ross Dolloff poses for a portrait in the courtyard of his home in downtown Baltimore, Monday, May 1, 2023.
Change is coming to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. But when?
Harborplace has a new developer, but noticeable progress could be years away.
A view of Baltimore's Inner Harbor taken with a drone on Friday, March 17. Several property and business owners say they have concerns about the low levels of foot traffic in the district, which they need to stay in business.
High hopes as next phase of Perkins Homes redevelopment gets underway
The ambitious undertaking promises to replace a vestige of the city’s aging public housing infrastructure with over 2,000 new mixed-income housing units.
Mayor Brandon Scott controls an excavator during the demolition of one of the remaining former Perkins Homes buildings, paving the way to start the construction of Perkins Phase III, Wednesday, April 26, 2023.
University of Maryland Medical System nursing program ramps up to address labor shortage
The Academy of Clinical Essentials initiative, which started at the University of Maryland Medical System, could be adopted by health systems across the country.
Nursing student Katie Strine, left, reads a patient's chart with clinical instructor Kerstin Koorey in the Surgical Acute Care unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center. April 18, 2023
Beat down by crime, disinvestment and a pandemic, can downtown Baltimore recover?
Investors, residents and business owners say crime concerns and a lack of vision are hurting the Central Business District in the wake of the pandemic.
How is downtown Baltimore doing?
From plastic to paper: Is yard waste collection working in Baltimore County?
The volume of twigs, leaves and weeds collected has dropped since the county required them to be in paper bags. But the move away from plastic bags had other benefits, officials say.
Freshly screened composted soil sits in the Eastern Sanitary Landfill Solid Waste Management Facility  plant in White Marsh, MD., April 14, 2023.
Archdiocese of Baltimore investigation reveals some new details
The filings kept on a handful of priests were known as “The Bad Boy Files,” 32 names were not to include on the church's credibly accused list, and colluding with the Archdiocese of Washington were revealed in the investigation.
The Attorney General’s office released the Catholic Church Investigation papers.  List of names.
Church report reveals new allegations against Father Maskell of ‘The Keepers’
Maskell is accused of abusing at least 39 people and doing nothing about colleagues who also abused children.
The Attorney General’s office released the Catholic Church Investigation papers.  Jean Hargadon (glasses) Teresa Lancaster,  holds a redacted copy of the release.
A day with Baltimore animal control — and how a change could affect its ability to help
“I don’t want to leave anybody behind," said Sharon Colburn, who directs animal services in Baltimore.
A tiny newborn puppy is handed off between two people.
Howard County reveals plan for lakefront Columbia library
The new library — at 100,000 square feet — will be at least twice the size of any other facility in the county library system and include an auditorium, a literacy classroom, flexible community space and a digital lab. The building was designed by English architect Thomas Heatherwick, and construction is expected to begin as soon as 2026.
The Governor, County Executive, and others take a photo after announcing a new Library will be built on the Columbia Waterfront, in Columbia, MD., on March 30, 2023.
Southwest Baltimore’s Steuart Hill academy will close
Steuart Hill Academic Academy will close at the end of the academy year, following an impassioned appeal process waged by parents and community advocates.
Members of the Steuart Academic Academy community gather around a table. Forms and documents about efforts to keep the school open are spread across the table.
Struggling to make health care appointments in Maryland? You’re not alone
Securing an appointment with health providers in Maryland has become a monumental task for patients, who say they have hit barrier after barrier in the search for care.
Alina Anthony, left, checks Braziah Murphy’s blood pressure at the Healthcare in the Library station inside the Enoch Pratt Library’s central branch on Friday, March 10. Anthony is a second semester nursing student at the University of Maryland School of Nursing.
Maryland is rapidly adding community schools. But are they working?
The community school model has grown exponentially in Maryland. But even some of the strongest supporters acknowledge that the rapid growth comes with some downsides.
James Matamoros teaches his fifth grade class at Berkshire Elementary School on March 3, 2023.
How institutions like the Catholic Church weaponize bankruptcy
Across the United States, various institutions that have faced sexual abuse allegations ranging from the Boy Scouts of America to USA Gymnastics have filed for bankruptcy. Could the Archdiocese of Baltimore follow?
The sanctuary of the Baltimore Basilica on December 2, 2022. The actual name of the Basilica is The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
MICA’s financial woes aren’t unique, but they could be tough to fix
The Baltimore arts college is among a number of small institutions finding themselves at a painful crossroads as the dust from the pandemic settles.
Photo collage showing Maryland Institute College of Art building cut into four segments, with rightmost piece falling to the right, layered over background of drawing marks and paint spatters.
More layoffs expected at MICA as financial pressure builds
More job layoffs are expected at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, where administrators say plunging undergraduate enrollment has effectively made the historic city arts institution a smaller college.
Fred Lazarus IV Center, 131 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD 21201
A sitdown with Mark Anthony Thomas, Greater Baltimore Committee’s new CEO
Thomas says decades of experience in economic development and public affairs has lent him the right mix of skills to shake up the nearly 70-year-old institution.
Mark Anthony Thomas is an urbanist and economic development official, who began his career as a creative and poet.  Thomas hails from Pittsburgh with a mission of reshaping the Greater Baltimore Committee (GBC), Baltimore's pro-business advocacy group.
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