Logan Hullinger

1 week ago | mobtownredux.news | Logan Hullinger

Sitting alongside city officials and public health workers earlier this week, U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks swore to protect Medicaid as proposed funding cuts threaten to hamper Baltimore's response to the overdose crisis. Yet the moderate Democrat's visit for a panel discussion at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing also came as her party struggles to fend off a much more extensive assault on public health by far-right conservatives.

2 weeks ago | mobtownredux.news | Logan Hullinger

As Maryland's fatal overdose rate slows in tandem with a downward trend seen nationally, Gov. Wes Moore signed a budget this week that includes a modest increase in funding for substance use and mental health-related services. The Democrat on Tuesday signed a $67 billion spending plan, which came on the heels of proposed austerity measures at the federal level that threaten to gut Medicaid and public health initiatives nationwide.

2 weeks ago | baltimorebeat.com | Grace Hebron |Logan Hullinger |Aaron Wright

A new date is just one of many changes to expect this year at Artscape. This weekend’s festival will have new installations, a divisive new location, and a redefined approach under new leadership. Unlike with iterations past, Artscape will take place this year on Memorial Day Weekend underneath the Jones Falls Expressway, its columns freshly painted with new murals to commemorate the festival’s new home downtown.

3 weeks ago | mobtownredux.news | Logan Hullinger

As congressional Republicans face an intra-party scuffle over the extent to which they will decimate public health funding, Medicaid coverage for more than 32,000 low-income Baltimoreans with substance use disorder hangs in the balance. A far-right faction in the U.S. House of Representatives blocked a Medicaid-gutting budget reconciliation bill backed by President Donald Trump on Friday.

4 weeks ago | mobtownredux.news | Logan Hullinger

If there's one thing I've learned from covering the harm reduction movement in Baltimore, it's that those on the frontlines don't back down. At the annual Tuerk Conference last month, organizers stood resolutely among a throng of abstinence-based treatment programs to cement themselves as a crucial arm of the city's response to the overdose crisis. And earlier this week, they showed up in numbers at a town hall to press Mayor Brandon Scott and his administration.