Sonia Eaddy wins decades-long fight to save her home in Baltimore’s Poppleton neighborhood: ‘This victory is for us — all of us’

By Giacomo Bologna Baltimore Sun • Jul 18, 2022 at 5:51 pm Sonia Eaddy, at the lectern, with her husband, Curtis Eaddy Sr., left, is jubilant about her underdog fight against eminent domain, after Mayor Brandon Scott, behind the Eaddys, announced that their Poppleton home, slated for demolition more than two decades ago, will be saved. …

Govans residents seek to overturn zoning approval for crematorium, cite potentially harmful environmental effects

By Billy Jean Louis Baltimore Sun • Jul 13, 2022 at 3:17 pm Citing environmental and health concerns, residents of Govans in Northeast Baltimore are trying to overturn a 2021 zoning decision that would allow a crematorium to be built inside an existing funeral home. At a circuit court hearing Tuesday morning, a lawyer representing members …

Follow the Money

Outside Spending A January 2010 Supreme Court decision (Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission) permits corporations and unions to make political expenditures from their treasuries directly and through other organizations, as long as the spending — often in the form of TV ads — is done independently of any candidate. In many cases, the activity …