Commentary: Here are solutions for Baltimore’s overdose crisis
City leaders, health care providers and law enforcement can work together to provide treatment, prevention and other strategies to confront Baltimore’s drug overdose crisis, directors of health and public innovation efforts at Johns Hopkins University say.
Renovated, expanded Tuerk House in Baltimore aims to help assist people struggling with addiction and mental illness.
Police say they didn’t spray a chemical agent at Pride. Why don’t those who attended believe it?
A Baltimore spokesperson said that Mace was released after two groups of people got into an altercation, but people who attended think something else happened.
A parade participant is photographed clutching on to a rainbow flag at Baltimore’s Pride Parade held on June 15, 2024.
Baltimore County’s overcrowding bill is in jeopardy. The school system has other plans.
Baltimore County Public Schools announced it is redistricting for the sixth time in two years.
Scotts Branch Elementary School in Windsor Mill was part of two Baltimore County Public Schools boundary studies this year.
Glen Burnie gets burned during Baltimore County Council meeting
Baltimore County Councilman Izzy Patoka said he immediately regretted dissing Glen Burnie and he apologized.
Israel “Izzy” Patoka speaks, framed to the left of a person’s shadowed and blurry head.
Half a million immigrants could eventually get citizenship under Biden’s new plan
The White House announced Tuesday that the Biden administration will, in the coming months, allow certain spouses of U.S. citizens without legal status to apply for permanent residency and eventually, citizenship.
The new policy would give protections to thousands of spouses of U.S. citizens without legal status in the country and provide a pathway to citizenship.
Baltimore council passes $4B spending plan, wrapping budget with few fireworks
The City Council didn’t introduce a single amendment to the mayor’s proposed budget.
Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby, center, conducts a budget hearing on Wednesday, June 14, 2023. The Baltimore City Council unanimously voted to shift about $12 million within Mayor Brandon Scott’s 2024 budget proposal on Wednesday, marking the first time in more than a century that council members used such financial authority.
Maryland House Republican leader charged with DUI
Buckel was charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol, driving while impaired by alcohol, driving on a suspended license, negligent driving and failure to display vehicle registration to a law enforcement officer.
House Minority Leader Del. Jason Buckel speaks during floor debate in the House Chamber in the Maryland State House on March 15, 2024.
Maryland has pardoned some cannabis convictions. Here’s how to clear your record.
Court officials are preparing for a possible increase in applications for expungements to follow the pardons.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signs paperwork pardoning more than 175,000 cannabis-related convictions during a ceremony at the State House in Annapolis on Monday, June 17, 2024.
Gov. Moore absolves 175,000+ cannabis convictions, largest pardon in U.S. history
Nearly one-quarter of the convictions are from Baltimore, making it the part of the state most affected by the action.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore holds up paperwork pardoning more than 175,000 cannabis-related convictions during a ceremony at the State House in Annapolis on Monday, June 17, 2024.. Alongside him is Secretary of State Susan Lee, and standing, from left, are: Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller; Attorney General Anthony Brown; Shiloh Jordan, who will have a charge pardoned; Jason Ortiz of the Last Prisoner Project; and Heather Warnken, executive director of the Center for Criminal Justice Reform at the University of Baltimore. (Brenda Wintrode / The Baltimore Banner)
Those thinking of not voting in November are putting the country at risk
Baltimore voters who might've passed up the opportunity to cast their ballots during the primaries must fully participate in November because of what's at stake nationally, journalist and professor E.R. Shipp says.
Former Governor Larry Hogan faces Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, who would be Maryland’s first Black U.S. senator.
Commentary: I needed to learn English, but my Spanish sustained me
Morelys Urbano, a Morgan State University student and fellow who advocates for language justice, relates how her native language sustained her as she navigated the necessity of learning English.
Morelys Urbano
Why Larry Hogan isn’t celebrating his lukewarm endorsement from Trump
Trump’s statement did not appear to be planned — or particularly enthusiastic.
Donald Trump, left (photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Larry Hogan, right (photo by Ulysses Muñoz/The Baltimore Banner)
Vignarajah launches ballot measure campaign challenging Harborplace redevelopment
The proposed charter amendment would ban residential development, buildings taller than 100 feet and other “private use inconsistent with the parks’ public nature” in the Inner Harbor and 19 other city parks.
MCB Real Estate released renderings of a redeveloped Harborplace on Oct. 30, 2023 that show new buildings with residential units and new park spaces.
Anne Arundel County adopts budget, raises fees, increases police and schools funding
The Anne Arundel County Council has adopted a $2.31 billion budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
The Anne Arundel County council voted Friday to adopt a budget for the fiscal year 2025.
This part of Annapolis stinks. These neighborhood activists used an app to prove it.
The stench can be overpowering. A rotten egg cloud so sour it causes headaches and watery eyes. Residents weep as they describe the feelings of nausea and helplessness, sick with the frustration of suffering this miasma.
Sharon Hockenberry starting working with neighbors to resolve smell complaints when she stumbled across the app, Smell My City.
Commentary: It’s not just opioids. New drugs make it harder to fight Baltimore’s overdose crisis.
Continued harm-reduction efforts and improved prevention strategies are needed to address Baltimore's drug overdose crisis, professors with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health say.
Candy Jovan demonstrates how an overdose prevention site would work at a mock setup at The Charles Theatre before the screening of a Canadian film about fentanyl on January 24, 2023.
A state-backed report found coal dust across Curtis Bay. CSX isn’t convinced.
CSX argues that many of the methods deployed by the community’s researchers, including low-cost air quality monitors, tape strips and statistical models, were flawed.
Views of CSX facilities scene from the Curtis Bay neighborhood in Baltimore on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023.
Trump backs Republican nominee Larry Hogan in Maryland’s US Senate race
“I’m about the party and I’m about the country. And I would like to see him win,” Trump told a Fox News reporter.
According to reports, former President Donald Trump, right, is backing the U.S. Senate campaign of former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan.
Olszewski vetoes contentious Baltimore County school overcrowding bill
Baltimore County Executive says he stands ready to compromise on a better bill.
Johnny Olszewski, Baltimore County Executive, speaks at a press conference announcing a package of foundational legislative reforms to expand access to new housing opportunities as well as address community concerns in Baltimore County.
Sen. John Fetterman at fault in Maryland car crash, police say
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was at fault for a crash that sent he and two others to the hospital, police said.
Sen. John Fetterman and his wife Gisele were in a car crash on their 16th wedding anniversary, the couple said.
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