We know it has been a tough year, but as 2020 comes to an end and we enter the new year, we have been receiving a flurry of announcements of major development projects suggesting that we may be coming out ...

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Gov. Larry Hogan’s recent announcement of grants totaling $19.3 million for eviction prevention benefiting communities around the state is a welcome recognition of a looming crisis. The funds include $2 million for Baltimore city, $3 million for Baltimore County and ...

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If you were to take a look at the map of the United States through the lens of our current political polarization, you would notice some unmistakable patterns in blue and red. Whether you were to view a map showing ...

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Back in the early 1970s, while a relatively new member of the staff of the Regional Planning Council (a predecessor to today’s Baltimore Metropolitan Council), I had occasional interaction with the chairman of the council, Milton H. “Mickey” Miller. The ...

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If you were to have accessed the website of Baltimore City’s Department of Housing and Community Development in late August you would have seen a number of notable images – the welcome page with the smiling face of the housing ...

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ack the 1960s, at another time when the nation was reckoning with issues of race and racism, a series of landmark laws were passed: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ending segregation in places of public accommodation and barring discrimination ...

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The May jobs report for the nation provided the slightest glimmer of hope for the country’s economy, now suffering the deepest job losses in nearly a century. There were almost 21 million unemployed persons (an unemployment rate of 13.3 percent) ...

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Back in the late 1970s, I was working with Baltimore city on the Community Economic Development Program. Among a number of priorities associated with CEDP was augmenting an already existing program, the city’s Commercial Revitalization initiative. This was an effort ...

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Contemplating matters after adhering to several weeks of required stay-at-home restrictions, I thought it may not be too soon to speculate about the impacts of life in cities and regions as we deal with the immediate impacts and the aftermath ...

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I started the Regional Perspectives column on a celebratory note. It was March 2001. In the previous month, the Ravens had won their first Super Bowl. As I noted, “From Aberdeen to Annapolis, from Randallstown to Roland Park, they were ...

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