Greg Morton
@Invisibae
data reporter @BaltimoreBanner. Alum @HowardEcon & @merrillcollege. @IBWellsSociety 🖤 [email protected]
NEW INVESTIGATION 🚍: Baltimore City is the only district in the state that doesn't offer most students a yellow bus ride after elementary school. When that policy collided with school choice, it turned getting to class on time into a nightmare. thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12…
The USDA says it has "sufficiently" addressed its history of discrimination. As a result, it is dropping the label "socially disadvantaged," which includes Black farmers, and will no longer consider race or sex in its decision making on programs. NEW: capitalbnews.org/usda-ends-dei-…
Weeks after members of the Baltimore City Council sounded the alarm on backlogs with permits being issued, the city is still issuing hundreds fewer permits than it did in previous years. Last night, the council expressed their frustration thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…
The Baltimore City Council has a busy afternoon ahead. At 1, they'll host reps from local utilities including BGE and Vicinity to answer questions about a spate of underground fires. More on the fires from me and @HayesGardner here: thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…
An independent audit of deaths in police custody that were reviewed by Maryland’s medical examiner should have been ruled homicides but weren’t. thebaltimorebanner.com/community/crim… Reporting: @justin_fenton , @mercohn
How a daring audit sparked Maryland’s reckoning over police custody deaths buff.ly/MwPlq0v
By @justin_fenton and @mercohn: How a daring audit sparked Maryland’s reckoning over police custody deaths: tinyurl.com/ynndusej (via @BaltimoreBanner)
🚨: The Department of Defense has confirmed that the first female superintendent of the United States Naval Academy has been reassigned, a year and a half into her expected three year tenure. Usually superintendents serve their full term and then retire. thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…
Check out the latest work from #merrillmade alum Greg Morton, a data reporter at @BaltimoreBanner. Merrill is a national leader in teaching its students to tell important stories with data. Proud of Greg's impactful #fearlessjournalism!
NEW: Research proves empirical what @lizbowie and I heard from many Baltimore City students: Long and complicated commutes on public transit limit their options even in Baltimore's universal school choice system. We spoke with the researchers. thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12…
NEW | The pipes beneath Baltimore, which date to the 1890s, keep catching on fire and launching 323-pound manhole covers into the air. And there’s no consensus why. w/ @emilyopilo: thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…
Mario Minor promoted himself as the perfect grocer to bring healthy options to food deserts, in Baltimore, PG County and beyond. The reality: He hasn't opened a single store, and all of his projects have stalled. Great @BaltimoreBanner investigation. thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/popple…
Have you found it super hard to find a primary care physician in Maryland that takes your insurance (Medicaid/not), and is someone you feel you can trust? I’m reporting a story about this. Email me your experience and your questions at [email protected].
Update: A suspected “bad batch” of drugs that sent at least 27 people in West Baltimore to the hospital last week contained a drug that research chemists had not seen before in Maryland or any other states where the program tests drug samples: thebaltimorebanner.com/community/publ…
NEW: Research proves empirical what @lizbowie and I heard from many Baltimore City students: Long and complicated commutes on public transit limit their options even in Baltimore's universal school choice system. We spoke with the researchers. thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12…
Long bus rides limit students’ school choices, Hopkins study finds, @lizbowie and @Invisibae report: tinyurl.com/ypn269sw (via @BaltimoreBanner)
Wonderful @BaltimoreBanner story by @rkobell on the legacy of racism and the policy choices that have left Baltimore County, which has nearly a million residents, with no public swimming pools. thebaltimorebanner.com/community/loca…
Why doesn’t Baltimore County have any public pools? Blame segregation. buff.ly/T9z1BmT
Immigration arrests in Maryland have doubled under Trump buff.ly/3ZA0DN2
BREAKING: Rep. Jamie Raskin said he will call on Republican leaders on the House Judiciary Committee to call for a hearing into the Trump administration's handling of the Epstein investigation. tinyurl.com/mskcs5jv