Rona Kobell
Regional Reporter at The Baltimore Banner
Covering Baltimore County for The Baltimore Banner. Filmmaker, professor, longtime Chesapeake Bay chronicler. Mom to two girls and two bunnies. Got a story?
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Rona Kobell
CAMBRIDGE — Dion Banks has always been there for Pine Street. So it was not surprising that Pine Street turned out for Dion Banks. In the basement of the Bethel AME church, surrounded by silver balloons and a long author’s table stacked with books to sign, Banks — a longtime political activist, historian and now first-time children’s book author — recently surveyed a who’s who of his entire Dorchester County upbringing.
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thebaltimorebanner.com | Rona Kobell
Ever since Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021, more organizations have planned celebrations. The holiday commemorates the day — June 19, 1865 — when more than 250,000 enslaved people in Texas learned of their emancipation after the end of the Civil War. Because they did not learn that President Abraham Lincoln had declared the end of slavery in 1863, these Texans spent an additional 2½ years in bondage. As word spread that they were free, celebrations ensued.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Rona Kobell
A Baltimore County panel on Tuesday night sent its plan for redrawing political maps to the County Council, but it might end up being dead on arrival. The county’s redistricting commission voted 4-3 last week to recommend a new map that would create two majority-Black districts on the west side of the county, and two majority-minority districts — one each on the county’s east and west sides.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Rona Kobell
Ever since his northern Baltimore County neighbors learned that Dr. Ben Carson was planning to turn his $2.4 million home into a solar farm, the opposition has been ready to fight it. They organized to testify at a hearing for a special exemption before the county’s zoning board, only to see it rescheduled several times and then canceled.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Rona Kobell
Baltimore County is bringing out the big fly swatter. To combat the unprecedented numbers of swarming tiny flies known as midges that have invaded eastern Baltimore County’s waterfront neighborhoods this spring, the Baltimore County Department of Environmental Protection and Sustainability will double the area for its next helicopter treatment. Instead of spraying 1,200 acres of Upper Back River with the specialized bacteria, the helicopter crew will also treat 2,400 acres of Lower Back River.
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We finally have a map. Is it DOA? https://t.co/YRXk8oisy8
As the Trump Administration cracks down on diversity programs and seeks to erase Black history from libraries and museums, Black women are making sure their daughters can see them leading and claiming their places and spaces. https://t.co/r0dJ1mLUuX
Why didn't The Baltimore County Executive re-appoint the Inspector General, who is Maryland's "fraud fighter of the year?" See if you can figure it out from this story. I wrote it, and I am still not sure. @OIG_Balt_County https://t.co/J2ZabiYzkM
