Under the weight of staffing and workload challenges, tax season starts on Monday, Jan. 24, when Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will begin accepting and processing 2021 tax year returns. The deadline to…
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Community Group Steps Up to Organize Randallstown Parade
After a difficult 15 year of families enduring the emotional, financial and health impact of the pandemic, a local community organization decided that a parade and festival would be the ideal way…
Confronting the Legacy of Racial Lynchings
More than 6,600 lynchings have been documented in the United States between 1865— the year the Civil War ended—and 1950, as a result of the efforts of an Alabama-based nonprofit, Equal Justice…
Five Years Later, County Has Not Paid Jury’s Award in Korean Gaines Fatal Shooting 
On Aug. 1, it will be five years to the day that police corporal Royce Ruby shot and killed Korryn Gaines and severely injured her then 5-year-old son in her Randallstown apartment…
Crime: Six-Month Snapshot of Homicides and Shootings Since October 2020
March 17, Pikesville, 21208: A 22-year-old man, identified as Dominick Boston, was found suffering from gunshot wounds. He later died at a hospital. March 16, Windsor Mill, 21244: A 32-year-old man…
Homicides in the Northwest: Spike in gun violence includes 5 shootings, murders in Windsor Mill in 2 weeks
The Baltimore County Police Department touts a decrease in crime, but for residents in the northwest area those numbers provide little solace amid the violence on the rise in their community. Since…
Community Action Stops Another Convenience Store from Coming to the Liberty Road Corridor
The Baltimore County Police Department touts a decrease in crime, but for residents in the northwest area those numbers provide little solace amid the violence on the rise in their community. Since…
Help is on the Way from Second Federal Stimulus Package
As people continue to struggle to pay rent and mortgages, utilities and other household costs; maintain their businesses and endure periods without a job, some are beginning to receive economic relief from…
Get Ready for the Presidential General Election on Nov. 3
Voting advocates and elected officials are urging citizens to think now about how they will cast their votes for the Presidential General Election. Your options to safely and securely cast your ballots…
Navigating At-Home Lessons for Students During a Pandemic
On Sept. 8, the first day of class for Baltimore County Public Schools, there were no exuberant students waiting for the school bus, no principals and teachers welcoming students to class, and…
What and Who is Standing in the Way of Police Reform in Baltimore County?
With the highest police-involved shootings in Maryland, the County Council took a pass. Amid a national reckoning for equitable policing and sanctity of life, hundreds of people marched in Black Lives Matter…
From the Publisher: It’s Time to Make Our Protest Matter
This morning, in my inbox, was notification of a very timely article published in the New York Times. The headline is “What Has Changed Since George Floyd,” and it looks at the…
Citizens Advocate, Oppose Development Projects
A plan to construct housing on a small plot of land in the middle of a 55-and-older condominium complex must be stopped, speaker after speaker told members of the County Council in…
Youth Activists Take the Lead Against Racial Injustice
For years, African American citizens have been dying at the hands of police officers. The issue was vividly and tragically brought to the forefront from a video of the police-involved killing of…