There are like 6 places to drop off bulk trash. You just can't take construction trash to them all. You have to go to the northwest transfer station if you specifically have construction trash.

I have trashed yes, tables, chairs, scrap wood, and all sorts of other things at 2 or 3 of the drop off stations and it cost $0. Just had to show a city address.

So taxes cover a vast majority of your trash.

Illegal dumping is often from shitty contractors who don't want to pay for their construction waste. The city charges $67.50/ton of trash for construction specific trash.

First off let's not link foxbaltimore as a source. They specifically write pieces to rile up the county folk and get clicks, they don't actually want to help. Second this is insanely ahortsighted and assumes that all these kids have no chance of ever learning which is bullshit. I mean most won't become doctors but some will and just because most won't doesn't mean they should be abandoned to "play video games", I mean wtf. There are tons of jobs that don't require a high level of education.

The problems, which are constantly laid at the feet of the school system stem from much more than failing schools. There are certainly some schools that have poor leadership and bad teachers but saying the whole system is failing means that a majority of teachers aren't doing shit amd that's bullshit. Thing is kids go to school for 6 hours a day 5 days a week assuming perfect attendance that's 30 hours a week. Take out 56 hours for sleep and that leaves 82 hours where kids are outside of school. Plenty of those kids have normal family lives with parents who care and have time to help with reading and homework but plenty have parents who are too busy to help or unable to help or no parents or any number of other issues and yet we expect them to get enough information in 30 hours a week while the 82 hours they are generally on their own and free to do what they want.

The solution is a multifaceted one that involves a whole lot more than just a school. We need mentors, community centers, before and after school programs, parenting classes, free childcare, more and better jobs for parents with free Healthcare and paid time off. But instead we just say these kids are hopeless.

I've said this a thousand times but it took us decades to get into this situation with awful policies and disinvestment and racism and segregation amd it will take at least that long to fix it if we start actually trying today.

Walts inn is what you want.

Uncomfortable, cramped, cheap beer and karaoke.

Can't wait fir mosby to claim racism somehow.

I was wondering where I put that.

You aren't wrong. But, as you said, that's a tough issue to fix.

My wife, a white teacher in baltimore, has never experienced the extreme version of this but her achool specifically has made a point over the years of bringing families and community members into the school to have round table discussions with teachers about what their kids experience and it has gotten very uncomfortable at times. There are always a handful of parents who will treat the white teachers differently than the black ones. To be fair the teachers are like 70% white in a school that is 99% black. So it's certainly a barrier to understanding to get over that I think her school handles pretty well. But still some parents are much less interested in participating in discussions and sharing of ideas and cultures than others are.

You are going to want 200amp service run to the garage.

Just call around to local electricians and get quotes. It's a pretty straightforward job.

BPD has cost tens of millions in lawsuits over the last decade or so. Also tons goes to prosecutors trying all those cases.

Honestly though the city should be improving based on how much they collect in taxes. All these houses getting renovated have drastically increased property tax revenue in the city but, as has been pointed out, the city has not figured out how to collect trash, charge for water or maintain roads.

They won in 90 and were the second to last Canadian team to win the cup. The Canadiens won in 93 and no Canadian team has won since then.

Also potentially important to note that the oilers had won 4 championships with Gretzky in the years prior to the trade. So maybe they keep him.and win more but also they could have thought he was already 9 years into his career and why not sell when he's still hot not realizing he would continue to be an amazing player for another decade+.

Honestly I think looneys was doing fine there. It's just that they have like 4 or 5 other locations and that's prime real estate so they sold and made a ton while still having multiple other locations, all in newer buildings, to continue the revenue coming in.

For sure. I genuinely have never seen a house in the city that needed mitigation and was surprised they had one. Definitely better safe than sorry just interesting there are houses with enough to warrant it based on the cities location and average rates of radon.

I work at UMD and years ago they were building a new dorm. The contractor had a big meeting with a bunch of different departments that may be impacted by construction. They spent a few minutes talking about the large crane that would be there for a few months mostly to let people know not to worry if it spins around as it was left unlocked inte totally while not in use to allow it to spin with the wind instead of being locked and adding stress on it. They also said that they make a point of not swinging material over existing buildings but would occasionally have to swing the unladen crane over buildings to pickup materials.

The person who ran the daycare which is next to the dorm basically told them that this was unacceptable because they had kids playing outside there and if that crane fell it would kill them.

I just thought, if that crane falls it doesn't matter if the kids are outside or inside it's crushing them all. Also would it be ok if it was just adults outside and the crane fell?

Like she was legitimately concerned about the placement of a crane because it might fall over and crush kids in daycare.

Not really sure what she thought thy would say to that. Like "shit you're right we need to cancel this project" as if cranes just fall over all the time.

One of the signs in the photo says this is a freight project explosives, toxic cargo nuclear waste.

1. Do they think those things aren't already on the trains that use this tunnel daily now?

2. Would they rather those things be shipped on trucks?

3. Fuck fear mongering idiots who throw out shit like nuclear and explosive just to scare people.

>The plan brings the tunnel right under our houses. Most of the houses in Reservoir Hill were built in the 1900s, and we're very, very concerned about the impact of the drilling that's going to destroy these 100-some-year-old houses," Wright said.

They are just assuming that the boring machines will destroy their homes. This is based, I assume, on fear and nothing else. Tunnels are dug all around the world, all the time and while accidents do occasionally happen in America we have a pretty damn good track record (pun intended) of digging tunnels.

Look at NYC where they just a few years ago extended a line and added new stations under one of the most densely populated cities in the world. No news of entire houses caving in there.

Also saying this is the presidents plan is a bit disingenuous. This has been a project decades in the making. Biden just happened to be the president when it finally got started and funded. Certainly his infrastructure plan helped but lets not act like this was his plan when hundreds of people have worked on this for years.

Have you had a radon test done? A vast majority of Baltimore city has very low radon levels. I've never heard of anyone needing a mitigation system in the city. It's generally not an issue until you head further west and north.

Check with the banner. They are a new newspaper and might have some internships or need some staff writers.

Do you have experience, are you a journalist or trying to write a novel or what? Writing is a bit of a vague description.

Also they are acting like hampden is poplar Grove not that they actually have any clue about either of those places.

More importantly, based on how the city handles water does anyone believe they can manage a broadband network?

Download the bge app. It tracks your daily energy usage and gives you an estimate of your bill every day based on your average usage.

No, they make profits by forcing people to overwork. People take the jobs because they are desperate.

>any economic activity is better for those communities than none.

1. This assumes these areas have zero economic activity

2. That ignores everything I pointed out

I fail to see how paying a handful of people minimum wage is much of an economic boost to a small town. How does that benefit the thousands of other people?

Also I wasn't making some self righteous don't give money to corporations stand I was merely pointing out that your comment, which made it seem like having a dollar general is a guaranteed net benefit to an area, was not completely true. One could easily argue that dollar general is growing by taking advantage of people in a tough economic position by paying little and charging more to suck as much money out of an area as possible.

Neither of those are bad for you in moderation.

People need to stop acting like carbohydrates are evil. Sure if you eat a half loaf of bread and 4 potatoes a day you aren't going to be healthy but a potato with some leafy greens and roasted veggies and lean protein is a perfectly healthy meal, you can even throw some bread in there.

Very few things found in unprocessed foods are bad for you when eaten in rational amounts.

Yes and no. They also thrive by understaffing stores and pay is pretty low overall. So they really only bring a handful of jobs to any area they are in and those jobs generally aren't great. There is an argument to be made that they are providing a service where others aren't but its not all positive and great.