Baltimore Brew will be pouring forth . . . from your radio this week, as Brew contributor Mark Reutter goes on “Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast” to discuss our continuing coverage of air and water pollution issues at the Sparrows Point steel mill. Citizens and environmental groups are assembling two separate lawsuits targeting the Baltimore county facility, which they say is continuing to emit contaminate nearby creeks and Chesapeake Bay with toxic chemicals. The show may be aired on Tuesday or Wednesday, we’re told, between 9 and 10 am at 88.1 FM. Watch for schedule announcement at http://www.wypr.org/MD_MORNING.html.
Baltimore Brew
Stirring up News and Views in Baltimore Maryland
Wednesday, February, 8th, 2012
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February 7, 2012
February 6, 2012
Mount Royal bike lane statements
People involved in the Mount Royal Avenue bike lane issue have asked for the full text of the statements issued by Maryland Institute College of Art and the Baltimore Department of Transportation so here’s a link to a page where we’ve pasted up both. In addition, MICA has put Lazarus’ statement up on its website [...]
February 3, 2012
February 1, 2012
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Baltimore’s guerrilla crosswalk artists
Transportation officials don’t like it, but Hampden residents are apparently fed up – they want cross-walks repainted on The Avenue and if the city’s not going to maintain the crosswalks on this busy north Baltimore street, they’re doing it themselves. Deborah Patterson, a former OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow who runs ArtBlocks, is one of the ringleaders. [...]
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January 31, 2012
Below the Fold
January 27, 2012
Your Baltimore Weekend
Catching up on a slew of interesting things to do and read this weekend that we almost lost track of in the Kickstarter hub-bub. Here are just a few: SATURDAY (1/28/12) New Mercury Non-fiction Reading – Check out tell-it-like-it-is education blogger Edit Barry (see below) and a pack of other feisty non-fictional characters from the [...]
