“The Pulitzer Prize Board would like to recognize the tireless efforts of student journalists across our nation’s college campuses, who are covering protests and unrest in the face of great personal and academic risk.”

Between 2015 and 2023, unaccompanied migrant children were sent to Maryland at the highest rate in the U.S. No other state was even close.

Data obtained and made available by The New York Times thebaltimorebanner.com/maryland/maryl…

Booking a bath for my dog and realized we have the same health issues

Here's Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb's memo to faculty. 'We believe that journalists have a fundamental right to cover the news. Your efforts turned those sentiments into reality.'

Maryland officials approved a $3+ million payout in compensation and housing for man who spent decades in prison for a killing he says he didn't commit.

'I'm sorry for the failure of the justice system,' Moore said. By Dylan Segelbaum & me.

Thiru drops out, endorses Sheila Dixon for mayor in a move that may dramatically impact May 14 primary thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

New: A Maryland prisoner waited 15 months for eye surgery after complaining of a detached retina. When he was returned from the hospital, he lost his vision anyway due to a lack of post-surgical care. He gets $200K, $15K from the state.
w/ Brenda Wintrode
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April in Baltimore concluded with 10 homicide victims, the second-fewest ever recorded here in the month of April. Homicides are down 33% from this time last year and 47% from this time in 2022

Congrats to CJS student journalists and school leadership for their admirable coverage of campus protests.

Protesters are being cleared out. Police are escorting remaining students out of campus or into the dorms.

More police storming Hamilton Hall ⁦Columbia University⁩. Students being arrested.

Just posted: Baltimore badly needs methadone clinics, but no one wants them nearby. “I don’t want people coming from there, falling on my mother’s lawn.”

This is one neighborhood's story.
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Story: Sheriff Cogen outlined problems he's having with the city, and the city pushed back. thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

Sun owner Armstrong Williams, in a piece saying Scott administration is misleading about crime numbers, makes a factual misstatement about crime numbers. Homicides are down 33% and shootings down 25%, so how would the city not be on pace to see a 15% reduction this year?

Congrats to the @miamiherald team that produced 'Shakedown City,' winner of a National Headliners Award for public service and Best In Show award.

Witnesses are saying the beach this morning had the highest concentration of Tasmanian Devil 'Back off!' spare tire covers seen in the domestic United States since the 1990s

What a fascinating read. And yet another Baltimore location apparently embattled by nesting birds

An island overrun by rats. A hotspot for teen foolery and adventure. A symbol of peace.

Fort Carroll may be abandoned, but lore and wonder haven’t gone anywhere.

My latest The Baltimore Banner.

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