Baltimore Brew

23/07/2025

Union representing 600 nurses at Ascension St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore plan a 1-day strike tomorrow (7/24) to protest understaffing they say is hurting patient care at the SW Baltimore hospital. tinyurl.com/32ys8dmk.

Strike targets understaffing and other issues that organizers say endanger patients at the southwest Baltimore hospital.

21/07/2025

Rally in support of Kelly Madigan is planned next week, as Baltimore County Executive Klausmeier mulls choice for Baltimore County inspector general.

The rally will coincide with next work session of the County Council, which must vote on Klausmeier’s so-far-unannounced nominee.

21/07/2025

Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier's handling of the Inspector General selection process is marred by conflict of interest, failure to follow law. So says the Association of Inspectors General, a national anti-corruption watchdog group, in a letter out today.

The Association of Inspectors General says process set up by Baltimore County Executive Kathy Klausmeier is full of conflicts of interest.

19/07/2025

Sediment-laden runoff during recent heavy rains from a Johns Hopkins University construction site above Stony Run raises questions about the environmental impact of Hopkins' Agora building and its planned Data Science and AI Institute. https://tinyurl.com/4ftjpv8n

18/07/2025

Neighbors call on Johns Hopkins to control construction site’s river of runoff.

After we inquired, workers were seen today along Wyman Park Drive, near the SNF Agora building, installing new runoff prevention structures.

Workers were seen today installing new prevention structures.

17/07/2025

Repeated delays and soaring costs: Baltimore’s website redesign is now pegged at $3.9 million and it will still be out-of-date, The Brew has learned.

Below: the City website's "splash page."

The upgrade, assigned to a politically connected software company, will utilize Drupal operating software that will reach end-of-life next year. A BREW EXCLUSIVE.

15/07/2025

What ever happened to Mayor Scott's pledge to raise solid waste worker wages? Nothing.

So far, all they're getting is a small one-time summer stipend, to be approved tomorrow. "You have the most important job in Baltimore," he said in his State of the City address in April.

Residential pick-up crews will temporarily get $50 more a week in return for starting their shifts at 5 a.m. As for permanent wage increases – nothing.

14/07/2025

The California nonprofit (G.L.O.M.) that hired Nick and Marilyn Mosby touts, on one of its websites, a glitzy "Palisades Project" coming on West North Avenue - on land owned by Real Estate.

An MCB spokeswoman tonight disavowed any affiliation with the project. tinyurl.com/3khppcjt

14/07/2025

Baltimore County has confirmed Brew reporting that County Executive Kathy Klausmeier will take over from her selection panel and make her pick for Inspector General - together with Arthur Elkins, who was not present at interviews with Kelly Madigan & others.

Basically, the panel was cut out of the process after the first round of interviews.

The second round of candidate interviews is to be conducted not by the full panel, but by a single panel member and Klausmeier herself, Baltimore County confirmed. UPDATED.

14/07/2025

Nick Mosby takes a job ….. with his ex-wife Marilyn Mosby’s employer, a California nonprofit seeking to build in Baltimore.

The former City Council president is vice president of operations for G.L.O.M. Global, a nonprofit with grandiose expansion plans for West North Avenue and elsewhere.

G.L.O.M entities also appear to be getting into the behavioral health treatment facility business.

As for G.L.O.M.'s real estate plans, a striking connection pops up:

G.L.O.M. claims on its website to be breaking ground next year on a luxury retail, restaurant and office complex on the 600 block of West North Avenue – land recently acquired by MCB Real Estate, developer of the adjacent Reservoir Square property. (As well as the plan to demolish Harborplace to build waterfront appartment towers.)

UPDATE - A spokeswoman for MCB tonite said the company disavows any affiliationwith the project.
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The former City Council president says he is vice president of operations for G.L.O.M. Global, a nonprofit with grandiose plans for West North Avenue and elsewhere.

13/07/2025

Blessed with empathy and a healthy sense of humor, Ray Bennett helped WBAL-TV tell a fuller story about Baltimore and its people.

An appreciation of the former features reporter, who died on July 5.

Blessed with empathy and a healthy sense of humor, Ray Bennett helped WBAL-TV tell a fuller story about Baltimore and its people. An appreciation of the former features reporter, who died on July 5.