At least 17 people were shot over the weekend, two fatally, in separate incidents, including an Ashland Avenue cookout in which 12 were shot. Among the injured at the backyard party was a pregnant woman and a two-year-old girl. Quoting sources, the Baltimore Sun says the cook-out was to mark the one-year anniversary of a gang-related killing. Police had one piece of evidence drive up to Johns Hopkins Hospital: a bullet riddled Lexus.
May 20, 2012
Sparrows Point blast furnace idled again
Production at the Sparrows Point blast furnace was halted Friday due to a shortage of raw materials. Jerry Nelson, general manager of commercial sales for RG Steel, and Bette Kovach, company spokesperson, did not respond to The Brew’s request for comment. Chris McLarion, vice president of Sparrows Point Local 9477 USW, reached this evening, said, [...]
May 18, 2012
RG Steel said to be in talks with Brazil’s CSN
May 19 UPDATE: RG Steel’s Jerry Nelson says “everything’s on the table” and “people have expressed interest” in buying RG Steel plants, according to Wheeling, W.Va., newspaper. Also, scrap dealers reluctant to sell to Sparrows Point and Warren, says American Metal Market. [See AMM story below in Comments.] Industry newsletter Steel Market Update reports that [...]
May 16, 2012
Delaporte, Stokes call for city audits on Steiner Show
The idea of pushing Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to regularly audit the books of Baltimore city departments got a (literal) airing yesterday on the Marc Steiner Show, as former city Recreation and Parks Department Director Chris Delaporte and three City Councilmen came on the program to discuss it. (Podcast here.) Listeners calling in provided perhaps the [...]
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BOE awards Grand Prix contract to Race On
As expected, the Board of Estimates this morning approved Race On LLC as the latest organizer of the Baltimore Grand Prix. The agreement gives the newly-formed company, headed by James “J.P.” Grant and Gregory K. O’Neill, the right to conduct an annual Indy Car and/or American Le Mans Series event on downtown streets over the [...]
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Below the Fold
May 18, 2012
What Makes the Mayor Smile?
_________________________________________________________________________ BIKING!! That’s at least the takeaway message we got from the photos that were snapped of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake this morning during Bike To Work Day. Rawlings-Blake was beaming in pretty much all the shots we got of her from Meredith Mitchell of Baltimore Bicycle Works, where the mayor and city bike czar Nate [...]
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