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Baltimore is proposing a double-digit increase in regional water and sewer rates, starting July 1, and an overall 42% rise over the next two years. And this increase does NOT include new stormwater fees set to become part of your quarterly water bill.
Slumlords, vacants, jobs, rail transit, the Inner Harbor, City Hall contracting – our readers comment on some of the core issues facing Baltimore and the region. Plus heartfelt salutes to a dearly departed pirate.
Baltimore County’s executive is championing hard-hat occupations, like longshoremen, and “advanced” manufacturing as the best way to redevelop the site of the former steel mill. A far cry from the city’s strategy of turning its waterfront into tourist destinations and marinas.
Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said he will announce on Friday the findings of a committee that has looked into future uses of the 3,000-acre peninsula. Kamenetz formed the Sparrows Point Partnership Business Advisory Board last May, just days before RG Steel, the parent of the steel facility, went into bankruptcy. The committee’s charge was [...]
Sure, he’s a big, tall and rocket-armed Superbowl-winning quarterback, but is Joe Flacco worth 450 times more than the person who teaches your kid? Just for comparison we came up with some salaries of people who live back here on Planet Earth.
Good gracious: a smarty-pants reporter from D.C. comes to Baltimore, disses the place and gets a reception about as warm and fuzzy as a hearing organized by the International USW! Baltimore is changing, but where is it going? Read what our readers have to say.
“I was a dues-paying member for 35 years and all of a sudden they don’t want to talk to me anymore?” said a former Sparrows Point union official who was turned away yesterday from a Steelworkers’ hearing to take over and dissolve the Baltimore local.
More intrigue at Sparrows Point: The International USW has removed the elected union officers at the defunct steel mill in anticipation of liquidating the union’s property and assets. Local President Joe Rosel is escorted out of the union hall by city police. A BREW EXCLUSIVE.
Everything from office furniture to giant 32-wheel, 200-ton “torpedo” cars are up for grabs. Starting this morning, the company that purchased the Sparrows Point steel mill is holding an auction to sell off specialized equipment as part of the wholesale scrapping of the one-time largest steel facility on the globe. Hilco Industrial has put up [...]
He would emerge from the dugout in a rage, throwing his cap, hurling expletives, kicking dirt on home plate and unleashing a profanity-laced tirade at the umpire who wronged them. Memories of the legendary O’s manager, who died Saturday.
The director of the Maryland Mental Hygiene Administration, Brian Hepburn, and Dave Goldman, chief of the Baltimore County Bureau of Behavioral Health, asked us to publish this information in the wake of our story on a steelworker suicide. “We are saddened by the death of Mr. Jennings. We would like to express our sympathy to [...]
Steelworkers struggling with the loss of their jobs – and to many, a way of life – mourn the passing of a well-liked union member who committed suicide over the weekend. “The end result of corporate greed runs deep,” writes a laid-off Sparrows Point employee on Facebook. (UPDATE: Daughter speaks out.)
Tears for the Sparrows Point steel mill, now officially kaput? Yes and anger toward the union and owner. Tears for more children lost to gun violence? Yes and cheers for a gun giveback program sending 449 of them to be melted down. Our readers’ weeping, whooping and wisecracking from this busy week.
The spate of obituaries coming out in the media and the Baltimore County Executive’s office this week are just a bit out-of-date. The Sparrows Point steel mill has been a goner for the last seven months. It wasn’t happy news to ferret out and report, but it was news The Brew nonetheless published.
Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz released this statement following the sale of the Sparrows Point cold mill (first reported locally by The Brew last night). “Today we face the difficult reality that more than a century of steelmaking as we know it has come to an end in Baltimore County. We all have fought hard [...]
The purchase of the cold mill complex at Sparrows Point is a huge blow to attempts by the local union to restart operations. The equipment is expected to be dismantled and shipped to Nucor Corp.’s southern steel operations.
Farewell, Fells Point! So long, Port of Baltimore! Just a couple of the casualties of a 12-foot sea level rise – the change that Baltimore, and the planet, can expect in about 288 years if climate change continues, according to estimates by two climate experts published in The New York Times. “Now we are in [...]
The United Steelworkers union admits that the fund it set up last summer with bankrupt RG Steel to pay medical benefits for steelworkers who lost their jobs at Sparrows Point was not enough to cover the claims. Some families are now facing big medical bills and potential financial ruin.
Is City Hall rolling the dice by moving ahead with a South Baltimore casino without a completed traffic study? Some readers think so. And how good will the casino jobs be – a question others debate as the NLRB accuses the Inner Harbor Hyatt Regency of unfair labor practices.
Sparrows Point, once the world’s largest steel mill, has been idle since June. Whether there is any possibility the mill might return to some level of production is still unclear, as a deadline for “indications of interest” by potential buyers passes without comment by Hilco, the current owner.
Advocates ponder how to seek millions to fix crumbing schools when latest audit shows North Avenue wasting millions. Big street art project on west side – uplifting or self-aggrandizing? Along with reflections on a City Hall lunch with casino execs, all fodder for our commenters.
Hilco Industrial made good on its promise and today offered prospective buyers of the closed Sparrows Point steel mill several purchase options. Dubbing its offer as a “Rare Opportunity to Purchase and Operate a Steel Mill,” the Chicago-based company said it will entertain bids for “one or more independent steel production lines” as well as [...]
Scorn and sarcasm ruled this week: Why not pave all of Patterson Park? Call it Harbor East Northeast! Long-stalled Superblock project? “Brodie’s Folly!” And what’s at the Inner Harbor for New Yorkers? Bupkes and cream cheese!
Readers speculate about the real reasons for shutdowns that put artists (in the Load of Fun building) and Sparrows Point steelworkers on the street. Condo conversion? An expanded Port? Plus, kvelling over the O’s and Baltimore’s Mayberry-ish side and much more.
Chicago liquidator Hilco Trading and St. Louis property redeveloper Environmental Liability Transfer announced today the completion of their $72.5 million purchase of the Sparrows Point steel mill – and strongly suggested that only a sliver of the present mill will ever be used for steel manufacturing. Today’s sale marks both the end of RG Steel [...]
