Writer, editor, and novelty song performer in Baltimore City. Opinions are my own. Also, senior editor @CityLab

Baltimore
Joined December 2009
Hey Internet: @mslaurabliss's amazing podcast Bedrock, USA is up for a Webby and you, the listener/reader, must vote for it immediately.
🏆 Bedrock, USA has been nominated for a Webby Award! The series from Bloomberg CityLab shed a light on political extremism in small town America.  Vote for Bedrock, USA here trib.al/zjrUE9m
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"There’s a lot of history under this bridge." @urbenschneider has an update on the tortured saga of the Claiborne Expressway, which cut a hole in Tremé in the late '60s and is now locked in a local stalemate over its future. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @citylab
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“It's relatively easy to open up a lot of shelters pretty quickly. It’s a completely different thing to keep people there and figure out a permanent option." @patrickcsisson goes inside "Inside Safe," LA Mayor Karen Bass's plan to rein in homelessness bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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The e-trike approaches a tipping point bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @citylab
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“What is more British than a corner shop and a pub you can walk to?” asks an Oxford councillor after the UK city found itself sucked into a maelstrom of far-right conspiracy theories. @FeargusOSull attempts to explain the inexplicable bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @citylab
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This wild new apartment in Allentown shows Buffalo's new "Green Code" at work, says Mark Byrnes: no on-site parking, a 'facadectomy' for the historic storefront, and twice the units as the existing building bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @citylab
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“The technology’s neutral. I can do very good things with it, or now I can do very bad things with it." @patrickcsisson gets a look inside Beverly Hills' police surveillance hub -- and its drone-powered pursuit of "pre-crime" bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @citylab
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"What had the repeated heartbreak of Bills fandom taught them about football? About life?" This really captures the existential mysteries of the 90s Bills, an entity that seemed to be engineered to illustrate the soul-testing virtues of failure nytimes.com/2023/01/19/sport…
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A year without traffic deaths: @JohnSurico gets the nitty-gritty on how Jersey City is making its streets less lethal, a process marked by cheap fixes and constant experimentation. bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @citylab
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