The Scott administration’s efforts to limit OIG investigations into waste, fraud and abuse, he says, are legally untenable and detrimental to good government.

The state allowed a North Baltimore facility to begin incineration operations without stack and opacity tests; the York Road facility had a second release after the first was reported.

Belair-Edison residents sent emails, made 311 complaints and watched as violations and fines piled up, but still the garbage remained. Finally, they gave up on city government and took matters into their own hands.

A chronology of the dispute between IG Isabel Cumming and Mayor Brandon Scott that could cripple her office’s ability to investigate corruption in city government. [OP-ED]