Frustrations mounted among West Baltimore residents and their City Council representatives Tuesday as an order to boil water due to an E. coli contamination stretched into a second day with few updates from public works officials or Mayor Brandon Scott.
A proposal to shift the boundaries of Baltimore's nine police districts would better distribute law enforcement resources and make sure individual neighborhoods aren't divided into multiple districts, officials said.
A proposal to shift the boundaries of Baltimore's nine police districts would better distribute law enforcement resources and make sure individual neighborhoods aren't divided into multiple districts, officials said.
From left: Yashira Valenzuela-Morillo, Kimberly Vasquez, and Aliyah Abid
In a victory for student activists pushing to close the digital divide, Comcast announced today that it will be increasing speeds for its low-cost Internet Essentials plan, which some families have said wasn’t fast enough for online learning.
Since the pandemic forced schools online last spring, students have been arguing that the speeds Comcast offered at a discount to low-income households 25 Megabits per second (Mbps) download and 3 Mbps upload weren’t sufficient for remote classes, especially in homes with multiple people using the internet at the same time. Comcast said it will increase those speeds to 50 Mbps and 5 Mbps, respectively.