The former community planner served in the position for six years as development decisions appeared increasingly driven more by politics and business interests than by planning principles.

Unions and community groups want these nonprofits to up the amount they pay under a 2016 PILOT agreement. Johns Hopkins University, the largest of these, argues its economic impact is already substantial.

An Earth Day warning that if City Hall doesn’t get serious about recycling, composting and other zero waste strategies, we’ll never kick this polluting, trash-burning habit. [OP-ED]

“We don’t want any media here,” AFSCME Local 44 President Dorothy Bryant said after The Brew came to hear workers demand better representation by the union.