Tim Prudente

1 month ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Tim Prudente

During his long career in real estate and medicine, Dr. Selvin Passen established himself as a shrewd and successful businessman. He guided a South Florida marina away from bankruptcy into a deal estimated around $140 million. So why is he pushing his South Baltimore marina into a foreclosure auction? Passen leads the ownership group behind Harborview Marina off Key Highway in South Baltimore.

1 month ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Tim Prudente |Wesley Case

Maryland’s librarians had come to Ocean City this week for their annual convention, and after sessions on everything from fundraising to K-pop fans, unsettling news swept through the crowds. Carla Hayden, one of their own who had promoted literacy and free access to books, who had ascended from Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library to become the first female and first Black Librarian of Congress, who had dared to let a pop star play a Founding Father’s crystal flute, had been fired. By email.

2 months ago | thebaltimorebanner.com | Tim Prudente

A pharmacist at the University of Maryland Medical Center allegedlycarried out a nearly decade-long campaign of cyber voyeurism, hacking hundreds of hospital computers to activate the webcams and watch young, female doctors and medical residents undressing and pumping breastmilk,according to a class-action lawsuit by six women that was filed Thursday.

Mar 30, 2025 | thebaltimorebanner.com | Tim Prudente

The news came suddenly and hit them hard like heavy weather. A gem of the South Baltimore waterfront, Harborview Marina, was to close March 31. Thom Price, John Creamer, Jeremy Salkin with his wife and dog, everyone — all the liveaboards who call the marina home had a little over two weeks to get out. Everyone could see the concrete pier was worn down. They joked about the owners’ maintenance plan consisting of bubblegum and duct tape. But was it really that bad?

Mar 20, 2025 | thebaltimorebanner.com | Tim Prudente

Candy Warden and the other volunteer caretakers of Howard County’s historic pet cemetery worried something was afoot. They had found the graves of nine people dug up and moved at Rosa Bonheur Memorial Park, but why? An anonymous corporation had bought the famous little burial grounds, once billed as the only place in the world where people could be interred beside their pets. Here lies the Baltimore zoo’s first elephant, Mary Ann; the old Bullets basketball mascots; and all those good boys.