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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The dominant house type of so many Baltimore neighborhoods is the familiar row house.

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It’s the start of a new decade, and, you may have noticed: We’re getting older. That’s true in the Baltimore region and in most parts of the country. The baby boomer generation, those born between 1946 and 1964, now consists ...

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Ben Seigel has had a busy 2019. Just a little over one year into his position as Baltimore City’s opportunity zone coordinator, he has been tracking down potential investors to deploy funds into one or more of the city’s 42 ...

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In the course of my consulting career, I came increasingly to see the impacts that immigrants and refugees were having on our cities and metropolitan areas. I became immersed in that understanding in the prior decade when, in the course ...

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If you are concerned with this region’s long-term economic development prospects, you should be paying attention to the recommendations of the Kirwan Commission. If you think that Maryland should be preparing young scholars for college and careers that will require ...

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The Greater Baltimore Committee’s recent transportation summit once again placed a spotlight on the need for the Baltimore area to invest in infrastructure critical to the region’s economic progress. The program featured a panel of speakers providing national, state and ...

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