Marcel Muise, a marine casualty investigator who served in the U.S. Coast Guard and captained the Deepwater Horizon oil rig before joining the NTSB, has a wealth of experience.
The Mayor’s Office of Recovery Programs has recommended terminating a $500,000 grant to the state’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing resources to the LGBTQ community, Pride Center of Maryland. The grant would affect programming to address violence within the LGBTQ community.
The money for the programs would come from the state’s Rainy Day Fund, and there’s no estimated total price tag, but it's possible federal aid could pay for them.
The image, taken by amateur photographer and plumber-by-day David Sites, contains clues of bridge vulnerabilities that experts say could have been addressed.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge might be more iconic, the Golden Gate might be prettier, but there was something so Baltimore about the Key Bridge. It wasn’t flashy, could be genuinely stunning, and did its job without attracting much attention until the day it collapsed.
Baltimore’s anger is not just out of the helplessness we feel over what happened to the Key Bridge, but at the absolute asinine response across the media — social, televised and otherwise.
The deaths of Edward Bentley and Stephon Martin are putting a spotlight on the state’s ongoing challenges with providing adequate medical and mental health services in the jail system in Baltimore.
The Limitation of Liability Act of 1851 allows ship owners to try to limit their liability to the value of the vessel and its freight at the end of the voyage.