Category: Baltimore News

Being forced to live in areas of concentrated poverty and far from work are just some of the consequences many Marylanders face because of the state’s lack of source of income (SOI) protection laws, which require landlords to accept any legal form of income for the purpose of renting their properties.  New, if limited, protections […]

Baltimoreans United In Leadership Development (BUILD) more than tripled its goal of reaching 2,000 city voters between Election Eve and the close of polls on Nov. 4 with an eye to making sure Baltimore made a difference in Maryland’s elections. Sen. Barbara Mikulski encouraged BUILD workers in their outreach plan. “Those running for office right now […]

Get-out-the-vote rally for gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown with Elijah Cummings. First lady Michelle Obama was the show at a get-out-the-vote rally for gubernatorial candidate Anthony Brown on Election Day eve in Baltimore.  Brown promised to be a partner to the city, then let Obama take over the stage to what was, hands down, the evening’s […]

Two members of the “UDH” drug organization have been sentenced to 10 years in prison each for their roles in distributing crack cocaine and heroin in Baltimore’s Cherry Hill neighborhood. Tony Johnson, also known as “Tony Mack,” 27, and Russell Lumpkins, 25, were sentenced to 10 years with five years of supervised release for conspiracy […]

Baltimoreans gather outside City Hall to protest what they see as a first-step in an effort to privatize city water services. (Photo by Stacey Mink/Maryland Working Families) Water price increases, diminution of services, and a loss of jobs are all at stake if Baltimore City goes through with a proposed consulting plan for its water […]

Two-hundred and fifty persons will canvas northeast Baltimore on Nov. 3 in an effort to get voters to the polls and to remind Annapolis that not only does Baltimore matter, it votes. This aggressive get out the vote effort was organized by Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD), an affiliate of the Industrial Area Foundation […]

Rapper Biz Markie. (Photo Courtesy of Twitter) “When I say Rock! You say Vote!” emcee Regina Clay chanted to a crowd, who thundered back “Vote,” as they huddled in light jackets and sweaters amid cool weather on Oct. 30 at the Symphony Woods, in Columbia, Md. With rapper and Howard County resident Biz Markie on […]

Nearly 70,000 people have signed up for the waiting list for Baltimore’s Housing Choice Voucher Program, formerly known as Section 8 housing, but authorities said they will soon trim that number to 25,000. Housing Authority of Baltimore City officials further warned that the number of people from that 25,000-person waiting list who will actually receive […]

Baltimore’s largest homeless shelter is set to break ground on a project which will expand its capacity by nearly 75 percent, adding 55 new beds to its current number of 75. The new expansion will allow the Sarah’s Hope, Mount Street shelter to provide family rather than dorm-style units, and for the first time be […]

First lady Michelle Obama speaks to supporters during a rally for Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, in New Haven, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) The Anthony Brown-Ken Ulman gubernatorial campaign is bringing serious star power to Baltimore on Nov. 3 to host a “get out the vote” event in support of Brown […]

The NAACP family will return home to Charm City for its 108th Annual National Convention July 22- 26, 2017, the organization announced Oct. 29. The NAACP’s national headquarters is located in Northwest Baltimore. The city last hosted the convention in 2000. “We are indeed coming Home to Baltimore in 2017,” said Roslyn M. Brock, chairman of the […]

Baltimore prosecutors have decided not to press charges against a police officer who used a taser to restrain a patient at Good Samaritan hospital, despite the patient later suffering a fatal seizure. 19-year old George Von King Jr. The Baltimore City State Attorney’s office announced on Oct. 28 that an extensive investigation, which included interviews […]