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Updated: 3:21 PM EST Jan 22, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript thank you for joining us. We are outside of the Baltimore City Department of Works Meter shop. Back in October, it was announced by the last administration that 68 DPW workers from the meter shop will be laid off and their jobs will be outsourced to a private company. I Tron. At that time, I stood outside of City Hall with our workers and express my grave concerns with a rush plan to privatize a core function of D. P W operations during a pandemic. For almost four months, DPW meter shop employees have been in a state of limbo, unsure if they have a job during a global pandemic that we know has had economic fallout in hardships for everyone. No one should be left in a state of limbo for that period of time. That s not how we should treat our city employees in particular a division where 92% of them 92% of them off Baltimore residents. Yesterday I personally met with the employees and Presi ....
Updated: 5:35 PM EST Jan 22, 2021 By Phil Yacuboski Baltimore restaurants and bars started to reopen Friday morning after weeks of mandated closures for in-person dining, but some argue it s still not enough to keep them profitable.|| Coronavirus updates | Maryland s latest numbers | Get tested | Vaccine Info ||Mayor Brandon Scott announced Wednesday that restaurants and bars could reopen at 25% capacity for indoor dining and 50% capacity for outdoor dining starting at 6 a.m. Friday as long as customers are out of the establishment within one hour. Twenty-five percent, unfortunately, the numbers just don t work, said Rob Frisch, co-owner of the Mount Washington Tavern. And the one-hour dining window, that doesn t make any sense to us. Scott closed restaurants six weeks ago to in-person dining, and bars that don t serve food were closed when Mayor Jack Young was still in office.The co-owners of Mount Washington Tavern said between ordering food for custome ....
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Lisa Holmes and Sherry Woods were well known among those living in the tent community that was nearly razed by Baltimore officials last month until public outcry halted their plan. Holmes was described as an especially welcoming figure who helped clean the area under the Jones Falls Expressway and called people to come out of their tents for meals. “The first thing, when me and another guy got here, was she came out of her tent with a bunch of blankets and covered us up because we were cold,” said Roy, who declined to give his last name. “I had a special fondness for her because of that,” said Roy, who explained that he has been living for the past three weeks at the Guilford Avenue site, near the Centre Street intersection. ....