Author Archives: Sean Yoes

Last month’s opening of Baltimore’s new, splashy Horseshoe Casino has attracted droves of gamblers from around the state, the region and the nation hoping against all odds to strike pay dirt. But, some organizations created to help those who abuse gambling focus much of their energy on the people who live within a 10-mile radius […]

Russell A. Neverdon, Sr. According to the director of the Baltimore City Board of Elections, the first draft of the 2014 general election ballot (Nov. 4) was due Aug. 22, and Russell A. Neverdon Sr. is still fighting to have his name included on it as a candidate for Baltimore City State’s Attorney. On Aug. […]

Baltimore’s expanded curfew law, which is being described by some as one of the strictest in the nation officially went into effect last weekend on August 8 and the new measure is already dramatically influencing the decisions of some parents. “My kids…worked summer jobs saved their money, did chores around the house in order to […]

Robert Mills says his work as an autopsy technician is more a calling than a job. On a rainy Tuesday morning, Aug. 12, just after 7 a.m., the lifeless, contorted bodies of seven men of assorted ages and races lie separately on steel carts within the autopsy suite at the Office of the Chief Medical […]

Autopsy technicians in the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, are fighting for increased wages and better treatment. Six of the 12 technicians are: Amanda McGinnis, left, Mario Alston, Chelsea Scott, Robert Mills, Mozzelle Osborne and Jessica Logan. For decades, Baltimore has been infamously known as one of the, “murder capitals of America.” And […]

Residents of the 300 block of N. Freemont Avenue say the proposed Red Line will greatly disrupt their lives. Sylvia McFail, left, Cornelia Kearney, Theresa Smith, Lorraine Ledbetter. Back: Rev. Ernest Miller, Jonathan Carroll, Vernon Smith. After 25 years of nursing, among other occupations over her lifetime, Lorraine Ledbetter sought the solace of retirement in […]

Harbor East developer Michael Beatty broke ground on his new project Harbor Point last month. After months of consternation by some in the city the Harbor Point project broke ground between Harbor East and historic Fells Point in June. Yet, despite his detractors and the tribalism within the state’s development community Michael Beatty, the developer […]

Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Despite recent reports to the contrary, Morgan State University’s largest research contract in school history is not in any imminent danger of being revoked or restricted. “From the tone and specificity of the issues outlined in the USRA letter, it appears Morgan is confronting a raft of federal complaints regarding […]

A little after five o’clock Tuesday afternoon it was clear to me former Baltimore City assistant prosecutor Marilyn Mosby was going to defeat incumbent state’s attorney Gregg Bernstein, her old boss. Because it was right around that time I descended the steps of Mosby’s humid basement election headquarters at the corner of North and Eutaw […]

Marilyn Mosby’s candidacy for Baltimore State’s Attorney has generated a phalanx of support from several of Baltimore’s Black leaders including: former Baltimore Mayor and State’s Attorney Kurt Schmoke, former State’s Attorney Patricia Jessamy, law professor Larry Gibson, defense attorney A. Dwight Petit and former judge William “Billy” Murphy, among others. (Courtesy photo) With less than […]

The acrimony between Del. Jon Cardin, D-District 11, and Sen. Brian Frosh, D-District 16, escalated during the June 9 attorney general’s debate at the University of Baltimore, while Del. Aisha Braveboy, D-District 25, mostly stayed above the fray and focused on the issues. From the opening moments of the forum at the school’s John and […]