‘No Apartments, No Compromise’: Baltimore-Area Developers Navigate Neighborhood Pushback
When developer Mark Renbaum first proposed a roughly $225M overhaul of the Lutherville Station retail center in Baltimore County, he said he thought he was pursuing a plan benefiting all the area’s stakeholders. His plans for the site call for 400 apartment units and office space next to a light rail station. It is a dense development near a mass transit hub that doesn’t add to suburban sprawl, precisely the kind of building Maryland and Baltimore County’s planning and transportation agencies encourage. “Anything less than a redevelopment on this scale would be a missed opportunity forever regretted — and felt by the Greater Baltimore region,” Renbaum, who is leading the project through the entity Lutherville Station LLC, said in a statement.
Gov. Larry Hogan promised to change Maryland. As he leaves office, did he deliver?
With fat white snowflakes falling on Annapolis, Gov. Larry Hogan stood on the steps of the State House and declared that things would be different in Maryland. It was 2015, and Hogan had just been sworn into office, a rare Republican governor in a Democrat-dominated state. In his first speech as governor, Hogan promised to move Maryland’s government in a more bipartisan direction and to be friendlier to businesses and easier on the wallets of state residents. “One hundred years from now, I want Marylanders to say: ‘This was when Maryland’s renaissance began,’” Hogan declared to thousands gathered below him on Lawyers Mall, bundled up against the cold.
Commentary: Wes Moore seized this moment in history to become governor
On the weekend before Wes Moore was sworn in as governor of Maryland, “CBS Sunday Morning” aired a profile and interview. “I’d never run for public office before,” Moore said, “but I’ve been a public servant all my life.” Moore also said he understood from the start of his candidacy that a life of achievements in other fields would in no way ensure a successful run for office. “Politics is a very humbling business. When we first got into this race, I was polling at 1%.” When Moore spoke during the interview with correspondent Kelefa Sanneh about how he intends to govern, he returned to the broad themes and inspirational language heard often during his campaign.
Wes Moore’s wait-and-see approach
THE RECAST: Maryland voters passed a referendum legalizing recreational weed, and your administration will be responsible for creating this apparatus where the state will be ready for business later this year. How will this work?
MOORE: That is something that we will be [working with] the legislature during this session and something that we are going to have to lay out when we look at our budgetary agenda. That is how we’re making sure that the process of the rollout of cannabis is going to be equitable, it’s going to be transparent and it’s going to be quick.
Rep. Mfume asks USPS to issue commemorative stamp to honor Rep. Elijah Cummings
U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume has introduced a congressional resolution asking that the U.S. Postal Service issue a commemorative stamp for Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, he announced Tuesday. The stamp would honor Cummings’ “life and legacy,” according to the release. “I wanted to make sure that Elijah would be remembered and his work would not be forgotten. I am encouraged by the vast amount of support this effort has already received from those who knew Elijah or appreciate his legacy,” Mfume said in the statement. The two had been friends for over 40 years.
Baltimore Deputy Mayor Faith Leach, who spearheaded squeegee collaborative, named city administrator
Baltimore Deputy Mayor Faith Leach has been named city administrator, the second person to hold the newly created post in the city. Leach, the deputy mayor of equity, health and human services, joined the administration in 2021. She has been a visible representative for Democratic Mayor Brandon Scott, leading the city’s outreach programs to squeegee workers and working on the city’s guaranteed income pilot program. The appointment announced Tuesday requires confirmation from the Baltimore City Council. Scott said in a news release that Leach has proved herself as a “transformational leader.”
Mohler: Leaders make the same mistake every time. Here’s a playbook to flip the script
When crooning about love, The Everly Brothers (under 50, it’s Google time again) reminded us that, “She always breaks my heart in two. It happens every time.” With apologies to Phil and Don, when it comes to crisis management, we could write our own song about those in power, “They always screw it up, they do. It happens every time.” The latest news that classified documents have been located at a number of private Biden locations is simply the latest reminder that our esteemed leaders get it wrong over, and over, and over again. And folks, it just ain’t that hard to get it right. Here are the facts: President Trump had classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. President Biden evidently stored documents at the Penn Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania and in his garage next to his Corvette at his home in Wilmington, Del. That one would have been a great Beach Boys song.
Department of Health to provide free COVID tests at Wednesday’s inauguration
As well-wishers gather in Annapolis on Wednesday for the inauguration of Gov.-elect Wes Moore and Lt. Gov.-elect Aruna Miller, the Maryland Department of Health will have more than 14,000 at-home COVID-19 tests on hand “to encourage Marylanders attending the event to stay COVIDReady through the winter,” the department said Friday. The historic inauguration of Moore, soon-to-be Maryland’s first Black governor, and Miller, who will be the first woman of color as lieutenant governor, will occur at the State House on Wednesday. Maryland Health Secretary Dennis R. Schrader emphasized the importance of the capitol’s COVID testing site, calling it “an essential continuity of government service offering legislators and the general public convenient access to both rapid and PCR testing.”
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