A House of Delegates bill that would have established a pilot program to add concussion sensors to football equipment at high schools throughout Maryland died in subcommittee.
Marylanders Brace for Natural Gas Export Facility
The natural gas pipes on Dominion’s Cove Point property begin on a pier in the Chesapeake Bay. They then descend underground and run for more than a mile behind the walls of a dimly-lit tunnel for foot-brake bicycles that workers use to travel from the dock to shore.
Maryland’s Democratic Members of Congress Praise Obama’s State of the Union Address
“As President, I’m committed to making Washington work better, and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here,” President Obama said, in his sixth State of the Union address.
Baltimore’s Forgotten Champions: an Oral History
An oral history of the Baltimore Stallions, one of the most successful — and short lived — expansion franchises in sports history.
More Jobs in Suburbs, but Mass Transit Commute from Baltimore Difficult
For decades, the jobs that many Baltimoreans rely on have been moving to the suburbs. But most of the region’s transit routes haven’t been changed since before the Maryland Transit Administration took over local bus service in 1971.
Circulator and Campus Shuttles Alternative to MTA Buses
While the state’s MTA buses labor along their old routes, Baltimoreans at City Hall and on college campuses became so dissatisfied with the service that they created their own expensive transit systems to carry riders for free around downtown and from campus to campus.
Tech Community Sees Smartphone as Transit Improvement Path
When Elliott Plack, a geographic information systems specialist, began riding the Baltimore bus system, the bus would regularly fail to show up on time. Plack would wait at the stop without any way of determining when the next bus would arrive.
In Nod to History, Some Call for Return of Streetcars
The last streetcar made its way over Baltimore streets in 1963, done in, partly, by the rise of the automobile and the growth of the suburbs — all coming atop an antitrust scandal.
City Youth Worry About Bus Reliability, Safety
The bus figures large in the lives of Baltimore youth. It’s how they get to school. It’s how they travel to see each other. It’s how they get to movie theaters, the mall and after-school jobs.
Red Line Could Be a Catalyst for More Baltimore Jobs
The proposed Red Line, connecting Baltimore County in the west to the East Baltimore communities by light rail, “has the potential to be a transportation game changer if we get it right,” says Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.