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Kathy Klausmeier set to replace Johnny Olszewski as Baltimore …
1 day ago · The Baltimore County Council has settled on state Senator Katherine A. Klausmeier to be interim county executive, making the Council vote later today among five finalists a mere formality, multiple sources tell The Brew.. One of the longest serving legislators in Annapolis, Klausmeier was considered the favorite of Johnny Olszewski to fill out the remainder of his term.
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Kamala Harris campaign aide becomes Mayor …
1 day ago · Mayor Brandon Scott has hired a new head of communications, a Washington-based publicist who served as a senior advisor to the 2024 Harris-Walz presidential campaign. Kamau M. Marshall started yesterday at the $185,000-a-year post, replacing Bryan Doherty, Scott’s former spokesman, who will stay ...
Maryland shuts down under a heavy snowstorm | Baltimore Brew
2 days ago · Governor Wes Moore has declared a state of emergency as Maryland and the Baltimore region brace for the biggest snowfall in years, with predicted accumulations of five inches in the city and more elsewhere. Area schools, colleges, government offices, MARC commuter trains and many bus lines are ...
Code Blue and winter shelter activation in Baltimore
2 days ago · The City Health Department has extended its Code Blue Extreme Cold Declaration for the entire week (through Saturday, January 11) and calls on residents to stay indoors whenever possible and to check on vulnerable neighbors and loved ones. More information on Code Blue can be found at https://health ...
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Dec 21, 2024 · Baltimore Brew is a daily online journal featuring independent reporting and informed commentary about greater Baltimore.
Baltimore County Council postpones vote on next county executive
2 days ago · The Baltimore County Council has delayed a vote on naming an interim county executive until Tuesday afternoon due to today’s snowstorm. Council members had planned to vote this evening, but weather conditions led to the closure of Baltimore County government today. The council must name a ...
Baltimore’s water and sewer rates are set to rise sharply in 2025
Dec 11, 2024 · After bragging three years ago about imposing the lowest increase in water and sewer rates since 1998, the Scott administration will raise rates by the highest margin in a decade.. Starting on February 1, 2025, sewer rates will jump 15% and water rates 3% (for an overall average of 10%) for the 200,000 residential and business customers in Baltimore City.
On last day of term, Baltimore City Council is poised to pass some ...
Dec 2, 2024 · Part of Larger Plan. The TIF allocation is a part of Scott’s much broader vision, announced last December, to use a mix of $3 billion in public and private financing to eradicate the estimated 35,000-40,000 vacant and “at risk” houses in Baltimore. The plan depends heavily on so-far-uncommitted state and private aid as well as a change in state law that would give Baltimore a share of ...
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Dec 31, 2024 · BALTIMORE BREW is an independent daily news website, staffed by veteran journalists committed to providing fresh, fair, insightful and reliable reporting about Baltimore.. Reporting that uncovers cronyism, mismanagement, waste and abuse . . . Analysis that cuts through the bureaucratic blah-blah and spin. . .