Greg Morton
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BREAKING FROM DANIEL ZAWODNY: Maryland's Transit Administrator is STEPPING DOWN after 14 years at the agency, including five as its leader. Story 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 www.thebanner.com/community/tr...
MTA Administrator Holly Arnold stepping down after 5 years leading agency
Maryland Transit Administration chief Holly Arnold is stepping down, the agency confirmed to The Banner Tuesday morning.
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Commodore John Rodgers leaders spent all year telling immigrant families that as ICE cracked down in Southeast Baltimore, they were still safe at school. It took federal agents mere minutes and 2 detainments to unravel that promise. Where does CJR go from here? www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
For this Baltimore school, an ICE arrest turned fear into reality
An arrest on the Commodore John Rodgers campus shattered the sense of safety school staff spent years building.
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In late April, a Baltimore City high school baseball team worried their season was crumbling. They asked for help from an unlikely source. But by month’s end, the team’s season was canceled anyway. On a team’s heroic efforts and the barriers they face:
A lost season: Inside the struggle of a Baltimore City high school baseball team
Digital Harbor students worked to recruit an additional coach and save the season. Instead, it was canceled.
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Maryland built a unique system to keep hospital services in rural communities. Cecil County births have held steady. The population is growing. Today, the county's only birthing center closes anyway, despite community opposition. www.thebanner.com/economy/scie...
Cecil County’s only birth center is closing. Why did no one save it?
A rural hospital in Cecil County plans to stop delivering babies. The closure of its Family Birth Center poses a challenge to pregnant residents and shows the limits of the state’s hospital regulatory...
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For teen moms like Rylee who fell behind in class while trying to raise a baby, one family center in Baltimore has a way to help them beat the odds and get a diploma: They send their babies to free preschool in the same building. Their success rate? 89% www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
On-site daycare helps close the graduation gap for Baltimore’s teen moms
Half of teen moms don’t graduate high school. Excel Academy is different.
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The 7-way race for 2 Baltimore school board seats is TIGHT. With all precincts reporting Election Day results, we have 3 basic locks - both incumbents and a challenger. But less than 100 votes separate the candidates for the fourth spot on the November ballot www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
Esposito leads Baltimore City school board race
Challengers Kevin W. Parson and Jamar Day ended Tuesday night neck-and-neck for the fourth spot on November’s ballot.
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Incredibly proud of the amazing @thebaltimorebanner.com data team for delivering our best live election results experience ever Because of their hard work the Banner is home to more detailed results than you can find anywhere else. And we're not done counting: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
Maryland US House seats: Primary election results 2026
Follow Maryland’s U.S. House primary election results and track vote totals across the state’s congressional districts.
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Read the series by Liz, @invisibae.bsky.social, @ryanlittle.bsky.social & @ajv.bsky.social which showed how unreliable public transit makes it nearly impossible for city students to get to school on time, making access to a car a key factor in students’ success: www.thebanner.com/specials/sch...
Missing the bus
How Baltimore failed a generation of students struggling to get to school
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So thrilled for our whole @thebaltimorebanner.com team to be recognized by the Pulitzer Prizes for a *second year in a row* but especially @lizbowie.bsky.social who helped create this place and is the heart and soul of the Banner!
After years of advocacy from grieving parents, Maryland legislators on Monday passed a $1,000 tax credit for parents of stillborn babies www.thebanner.com/education/ea...
Maryland parents of stillborn babies could soon get $1,000 tax credit
Parents have fought for years to get monetary relief from state legislators.
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Grading the glizzies: How each hot dog at Camden Yards measures up
Grading the glizzies: How each hot dog at Camden Yards measures up
Armed with a kitchen scale, a ruler, butcher’s twine and a serious commitment to the bit, The Banner analyzed every hot dog configuration at Camden Yards.
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Greg Morton@invisibae.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW: The Orioles delighted fans when they introduced a $4 "value" hot dog last season. But our reporters had to ask: Is it actually the most beef for your buck? They hit Camden Yards with a kitchen scale and a ruler to investigate. www.thebanner.com/culture/food...
NEW: The Orioles delighted fans when they introduced a $4 "value" hot dog last season. But our reporters had to ask: Is it actually the most beef for your buck? They hit Camden Yards with a kitchen scale and a ruler to investigate. www.thebanner.com/culture/food...
Grading the glizzies: How each hot dog at Camden Yards measures up
Armed with a kitchen scale, a ruler, butcher’s twine and a serious commitment to the bit, The Banner analyzed every hot dog configuration at Camden Yards.
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NEW: A pair of Baltimore firefighters died more than 2 years ago. The city still hasn’t told the public what happened. But The Banner has obtained the 300-page report. Read it here: www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
Report on firefighters’ deaths in Baltimore exposes systemic flaws
The Baltimore Fire Department was understaffed while relying on aging equipment and outdated training standards when two firefighters died in a blaze 2 1/2 years ago, according to an investigative rep...
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When Dana Riley bought her day care building, she didn’t think anyone would associate her with the sexual abuse and shooting scandal tied to its former owners. When she couldn’t shake the distrust and doubt, she came up with a solution: 24/7 live-streamed cameras www.thebanner.com/education/ea...
How this day care rebuilt trust after a shooting and abuse scandal
The new owner of Shanteari Young’s former child care center lets parents watch classroom livestreams.
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“He is a bulletproof God" CeĂlĂ Doyle and @jessicagallagher.bsky.social were at service today as Pastor Rashad Singletary delivered an Easter sermon just days after being shot in a carjacking. He spoke to us about forgiveness. www.thebanner.com/community/lo...
Baltimore pastor delivers Easter sermon days after being shot, carjacked
The cleric told his congregants and the public to forgive the young man who shot and robbed him.
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Do your kids neeeeeed NeeDoh? I *stretched* myself as a reporter and found out why the squishy toys are so hard to get right now. www.thebanner.com/culture/life...
Need to knead NeeDoh? Squishy toy craze sends parents scrambling.
TikTok spawned an obsession for NeeDoh — brightly colored, textured, squishy toys that parents are desperately seeking for Easter baskets.
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The impact of Trump’s immigration crackdown on mothers is particularly pronounced, our analysis found: Moms of U.S. citizens have been deported at about four times the pace under the Biden administration.
Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
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Baltimore County native Reid Wiseman is preparing to lead the first crewed mission to the moon in over 50 years. His proud father, battling cancer, wants to see it. buff.ly/ZSdcVKA
NEW: Newly released data shows Maryland immigration arrests are way up in year one of Trump’s second term — and as arrests have increased, fewer involve people with any criminal history. From @sahanajayaraman.bsky.social & John-John Williams IV www.thebanner.com/community/lo...
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De'Jonnae and her husband José live by one universal truth: Reunification is the goal. These foster parents have taken in 15 kids over 5 years, making them an outlier in a state where the number of foster parents has been declining and half tap out after just 1 year www.thebanner.com/education/ea...
These foster parents have taken in 15 kids. Their goal: Send them home.
The Baltimore couple is unusual in a state where half of families stop taking foster kids within the first year.
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At @thebaltimorebanner.com's request, readers drew some mighty interesting maps of "downtown" Baltimore. Only 22.5% correctly included Mount Vernon! www.thebanner.com/community/lo...
We asked where downtown Baltimore is. Chaos ensued
Where does downtown Baltimore begin and end? Nearly 700 readers sent maps — and a Banner analysis reveals the areas most people agree on.
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The results are in! We asked you to draw downtown and you delivered. @ajv.bsky.social reviewed hundreds of your maps and found interesting trends and thoughtful explanations. What shocked me the most? Only about 1 in 4 maps had Little Italy downtown 🇮🇹 www.thebanner.com/community/lo...
We asked where downtown Baltimore is. Chaos ensued
Where does downtown Baltimore begin and end? Nearly 700 readers sent maps — and a Banner analysis reveals the areas most people agree on.
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Kids in the "iPad generation" have grown more reliant on screens at home and in school since the pandemic. The head of Baltimore's public schools has had enough. She introduced screen time and digital device limits, though she doesn't think they go far enough. www.thebanner.com/education/ea...
Baltimore’s top educator wants to end the iPad kid epidemic
Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Sonja Santelises announced strict screen time limits for kindergarten through second grade students.
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Maryland wants its $4 billion in tariff payments back. Gov. Moore and top fiscal leaders are demanding Pres. Trump reimburse Marylanders for price hikes from import tariffs, an estimated $1,744 per household. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
A little bit of happy for your Wed. morning: We've been reporting for months that the federal immigration crackdown is keeping some scared immigrant families from venturing outside their homes. Norma Montesino is the bilingual Santa Claus bringing reading to them. www.thebanner.com/education/ea...
When immigrants can’t leave their homes, this reading expert comes to the door
Amid a federal immigration crackdown, scared families are avoiding public spaces and staying home. Norma Montesino is one of the few people they’ll let in.
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This is fun
Greg Morton@invisibae.bsky.social · 5mo agoNo one seems to agree on what "downtown Baltimore" actually is. Is it a narrow strip of land near the harbor? Does it include Mount Vernon? The @thebaltimorebanner.com office? Help us figure this out! Use our new tool to draw what you think of as downtown: www.thebanner.com/economy/grow...
Baltimore, what is YOUR version of downtown? Draw us a map! (Also, hate to say it, but Philly had it right ...) This is so fun, and a great read. via @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebanner.com/economy/grow...
How do you define downtown Baltimore? Draw it and show us.
Depending on how you draw its boundaries, downtown Baltimore is either a depressing and increasingly empty collection of tall buildings, or it’s a dynamic and diverse community poised for success.
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Only someone from the county would think Mt. Vernon is downtown
Greg Morton@invisibae.bsky.social · 5mo agoNo one seems to agree on what "downtown Baltimore" actually is. Is it a narrow strip of land near the harbor? Does it include Mount Vernon? The @thebaltimorebanner.com office? Help us figure this out! Use our new tool to draw what you think of as downtown: www.thebanner.com/economy/grow...
