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March 12, 2021
Wednesday in the City Hall Ceremonial Room, Mayor Brandon M. Scott officially appointed Jim Shea to the role of City Solicitor. The appointment follows Monday s City Council confirmation of Shea.
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Shea has served the Scott administration as Acting City Solicitor since January. As City Solicitor, Shea will lead the Law Department and serve as legal advisor to the City. By Charter, he will also serve as a member of the Board of Estimates. Jim brings unmatched legal and civic experience to City Hall, and he is committed to charting a new course for Baltimore, said Mayor Brandon M. Scott. His dedication to good lawyering, equity and accountability will make him an effective City Solicitor and critical part of my team as we work to build a better city.
The Maryland Transit Administration launched a vaccine clinic Friday for its employees, and the state plans to set aside 500 vaccines per week for MTA employees.
. Sponsored by Del. Brooke Lierman and Sen. Cory McCray, the bill would require the state to allocate enough funds to the Maryland Transit Administration to cover long-deferred repair and maintenance issues. A similar bill passed in the state House last year but ran out of time in the Senate.
“The state must maintain its assets and keep up its promise of providing reliable and safe transit to our essential workers and any Marylander who wants it or needs it,” Lierman said in a press release.
“It’s clear from peoples’ experience and riders’ experiences, and data on breakdowns that the MTA experiences that the MTA system has been underinvested for years and is suffering for that,” said Eric Norton, policy director for the Central Maryland Transportation Alliance, which is pushing the bill.
Baltimoreans have long known the way their city’s transit is run is unusual. But it wasn’t until a new report from a Washington, DC-based transportation think tank was released last month that it became clear just
how unique Baltimore’s lack of control over its transit system truly is.
According to the Eno Center for Transportation, out of the 50 largest transit agencies in the United States, only Baltimore’s transit is both governed and operated by a state agency without a board of directors in this case, the Maryland Transit Administration (MTA). Other cities with state-run transit agencies, like New York and Boston, have appointed boards with at least some power to make recommendations and sometimes even veto key decisions, and also do not rely entirely on their state governments for any non-federal funding.
December 23, 2020
In 2018, as he ran a longshot bid for governor, prominent Baltimore attorney James L. Shea tapped then-Baltimore City Councilman Brandon M. Scott (D) to be his running mate.
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The run for lieutenant governor boosted Scott s public profile and put him in closer contact with some of the most prominent political and civic players around the city and state.
Now Scott, in office as mayor for just three weeks, is putting Shea to work: He announced Tuesday that Shea will become the city s solicitor beginning in January.
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Scott also announced that he is appointing Acting City Solicitor Dana P. Moore to serve as Baltimore s first chief equity officer, and that he is making the job a cabinet-level position.