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‘Food Deserts’ Get New Name, But Still Prevalent in Baltimore
A map of “healthy food priority areas,” formerly called food deserts, from the city’s 2018Food Environment Report. About 23.5 percent of Baltimore residents live in such areas, the report says....
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A Different Kind of Family Vacation: “We Don’t Have to Buy Crap”
Enzo Metsopoulos and new Dominican friends, 2011. Christine Grillo and her husband, Peter Metsopoulos, are planning a different kind of summer vacation for their family of five this year – the kind of...
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Baltimore City Is Poor, but the Suburbs Are Worse!
Baltimore’s massive poverty problem is impossible to miss, whatever your income bracket. Vacant and condemned buildings speckle the city. And many others that ought to be condemned house families. But...
View ArticleWarnock Foundation Initial Results of Baltimore Survey
WF Survey Memo Courtesy Citybizlist – When we invested in Baltimore in 2012, we found a thriving community of innovators, creators, do-gooders, across disciplines, all connecting together to push for...
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Why My Mother Made Me Call Her Tina
University of Baltimore MFA student D. Watkins tells the difficult story of his Somali mother, Tina, who gave birth to him when she was 15, full of big plans other than being a mom. Tina is a...
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Rosedale Doesn’t Want Low-Income Housing Either
Rosedale residents would rather this grassy lot stay as it is. Just a month after plans for a low-income housing project in White Marsh were scrapped in the face of local opposition, a similar project...
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This Map Shows Baltimore’s Biggest Problem
Baltimore’s such a complicated place. That’s true for a lot of reasons, but the newly-released census data tells a more simple story. Baltimore is poor, while all its surrounding counties are rich —...
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This Johns Hopkins Study About Life Trajectories Will Depress You
It took Johns Hopkins sociologist Karl Alexander 25 years to complete his research about the paths people take in life. Finally, just a month before he retires from the university, Alexander has...
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New York Times Editorial Says Racism “Doomed” Baltimore
Business Insider photo. All of a sudden, people everywhere have opinions about Baltimore–including the New York Times, which published a scathing Sunday editorial about the city’s problems that really...
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New Study of Baltimore Youth Contradicts ‘Thug’ Narrative
Coming of Age in the Other America by Stefanie DeLuca, Susan Clampet-Lundquist, and Kathryn Edin Ten years of research yields fresh insights into why some impoverished Baltimore youth thrive while...
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Poor Baltimoreans Need More Help As Water, Sewer Rates Keep Climbing, Report...
Photo by Ángelo González No one likes a higher water bill. However, ongoing increases in the water and sewer rates in Baltimore could leave Baltimore’s impoverished residents in particularly dire...
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Leaders Discuss How to Fix Homelessness at Light City’s Social Lab
Molly McGrath Tierney, director of the Baltimore City Department of Social Services (left) and Jeff Singer, former director of Healthcare for the Homeless, talk on stage. Homelessness doesn’t hit...
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Councilwoman Introduces Bill That Could Discriminate Against the Homeless
Because of the “dangerous situation” that arises, city Councilwoman Rochelle “Rikki” Spector has introduced a bill to crack down on people who stand along street shoulders or medians to solicit money...
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Ravens’ AFC Championship Win Brings Cannoli and Seafood to Baltimore’s Homeless
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake raked in quite a spread of foods after winning a bet against Boston Mayor Thomas Menino over the outcome of the AFC championship game. Menino sent Rawlings-Blake a...
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Hopkins Dean Featured in NY Times
Katherine Newman, Johns Hopkins’s new dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, is a busy lady. Along with being an administrator, she also serves as a sociology professor and a widely-cited expert on...
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