Joan Jacobson is the co-author of "Wised Up," the 2004 memoir of FBI informant Charlie Wilhelm, and the first book about Baltimore organized crime. She also has written and edited for The Urbanite Magazine and wrote two research studies for The Abell Foundation about the dismantling of Baltimore public housing and the loss of millions in tax revenue from an underground video gambling industry. Previously, for 28 years, she reported for The Evening Sun and The Baltimore Sun, covering everything from cops and obits to investigative stories about misused poverty and housing funds, as well as millions of dollars in unpaid loans and tax breaks given by City Hall to politically-connected developers. She was also a longtime leader of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild’s Sun Unit.
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
January 30, 2012
Dumping of hot metal caused Sparrows Point fire, state told
RG Steel told Maryland environmental officials today that the weekend fire that lit up the skies around Sparrows Point was caused by the disposal of hot metal from the mill’s blast furnace. “We were told that conditions relating to the idling and subsequent restart of the blast furnace led to the need to dispose of [...]
