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Despite Scott administration redactions, IG Cumming was able to confirm a Baltimore youth diversion program paid thousand$ in fraudulent invoices and committed a data breach releasing 700 names, many of them juveniles, to a city employee's relative's gmail tinyurl.com/46cmdybf

Baltimore County Council repeals pension bill denounced by the public as self-dealing. tinyurl.com/y9vc9kmh In an election year, the furor over what was viewed as a cushy “golden parachute” had lawmakers doing an abrupt about-face.

INBOX - In lieu of the rally they planned today and cancelled due to the weather, a bipartisan group issues this press release, urging the Baltimore County Council tonight to repeal a pension bill they call "self-dealing."

Poised to undo their pension grab, but pretending that’s not what it was. tinyurl.com/4aknnbnb In an election year, there’s an extra measure of false framing and finger-pointing ahead of the vote on the Baltimore County Council’s agenda tonight. [OP-ED]

Tests confirm another lead-paint-flaking bridge in Baltimore, the 4th now identified in Maryland tinyurl.com/y342wbjm It’s a JFX off-ramp above Clipper Mill Rd near the spot where similar orange chips, reported to the city by The Brew a month ago, are still littering Falls Rd.

Incinerator shutdown, needed for maintenance, will slow Baltimore trash collection tinyurl.com/34yhupe8 Expect slower pick-up, and longer wait times at DPW facilities, with garbage diverted to the Quarantine Road Landfill through Saturday.

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Maxed-out Baltimore sewage plant triggers development moratorium in Anne Arundel County tinyurl.com/4sfpbc97 The Patapsco plant can’t accept any more county sewage, resulting in a development cut-off affecting parts of northernwestern Anne Arundel.

Shutting it Down: Sisson Street Task Force votes to eventually close Baltimore’s most-used trash facility. tinyurl.com/epfekjvd The Scott-appointed panel paves the way for Seawall Development to acquire the city-owned property.

BREAKING: Seawall says it has a contract to purchase Potts & Callahan properties. tinyurl.com/mvnxmhxx Developer promises a “community-led process” to determine the use of the land and says it won’t be a relocation site for the Sisson Street trash transfer facility.

baltimorebeat.com/bpd-officer-om… @MayorBMScott @Zeke_Cohen

Before city approves license plate reader contract for @BaltimorePolice, residents speak against it. tinyurl.com/9ek27enz “We’re dealing with two community members killed by BPD ... now we’re giving them more tools to harass people?” @MayorBMScott

Lawmakers tour that garbage pile sitting at a DOT facility. tinyurl.com/4k5fys8x With the Falls Rd gate left open, private haulers have been dumping clandestinely at night and Baltimore city trucks have been dumping there, too. How this cd go on for months remains “a mystery.”

A dangerous expansion of @BaltimorePolice's license plate reader capability is flying in under the radar on today's BOE agenda. tinyurl.com/5n85jh5 As we did with another surveillance tool, the spy plane, Baltimore should shoot it down [OP-ED]

Two more bridges are confirmed to be shedding lead paint flakes, including an I-95 overpass which is dropping them on the Baltimore County community of Halethorpe, says @BlueWaterBmore, which had the orange flakes independently tested. tinyurl.com/mryv92rc

Despite months of complaints, a big trash pile on city-owned property near the Jones Falls remains. tinyurl.com/mssznvm5 The @MayorBMScott administration is not explaining why it hasn't been cleaned up and why City trucks, as well as private haulers, have been dumping there.

Remembering Baltimore Mayor McKeldin, an extinct species: the moderate-to-liberal Republican. tinyurl.com/57pkkm4u Researching his latest play took @DanRodricks back to the days of a different GOP.

Delegates @RyanforMaryland and @DelegateStewart have introduced a bipartisan bill in Annapolis to clarify that local inspector generals are not bound by restrictions in the MPIA, as claimed by Baltimore City and Montgomery County. tinyurl.com/h4jvy9az

Partying is popular at City Hall - e.g. the $890,000 spent by Mayor Scott's office on food and flowers tinyurl.com/2n68ejts. Shades of the opulent party @MayorSRB threw for herself in 2016, joined by the city's donor elite and current mayor. tinyurl.com/z5mbzkps

Describing "nauseating" sewage backups erupting in their basements recently, Baltimore residents demand the city follow an @EPA order to expand a reimbursement program needed by thousands like them who suffer from the city's failure to fix its system. tinyurl.com/y5zbtxzf