A native of Atlanta, Michael Hill came to Baltimore in 1968 as a freshman at Johns Hopkins and basically never left. He spent 35 years working for The Evening Sun and The Sun, covering everything from Carroll County government to Nelson Mandela's election as the Sun's bureau chief in Johannesburg. For 14 years he was the Evening Sun's television critic. He left The Sun in 2008 now works in the communications department of Catholic Relief Services whose world headquarters at in the old Stewart's building at Lexington and Howard Streets. He is the father of two grown sons who graduated from the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.
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 [...]
