Lee Sanderlin
@LeeOSanderlin
I write about people and power @BaltimoreBanner | Previously @baltimoresun, @clarionledger and more | email me: [email protected]
To the outside world, Brian Matusz appeared to have it all. But inside, a battle was raging. This is the story of how the once-promising Baltimore Oriole lost his way. thebaltimorebanner.com/sports/brian-m…
With utility bills going through the roof for Marylanders, your @BaltimoreBanner has been digging into how @MyBGE is spending ratepayer money. Today, @MsHallieMiller with the story of a $17.5 million pickup truck to detect stray electrical currents. thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/bge-ut…
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…
After Trump cut billions for FEMA disaster prevention, a declining & conservative town on Maryland's Eastern Shore is left to fend off rising waters on its own. “We will not be here if we don’t have a major intervention,” the mayor told me. “That’s it.” thebaltimorebanner.com/community/clim…
After FEMA axed aid, is an Eastern Shore town lost to the bay? thebaltimorebanner.com/community/clim…
Before Maryland Gov. Wes Moore vetoed studying reparations for the state’s role in slavery and discrimination, he had privately drawn up his own order to create a study commission. @WintrodeBrenda & I take you behind the scenes in Annapolis: thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…
How a daring audit sparked Maryland’s reckoning over police custody deaths buff.ly/MwPlq0v
Live in Baltimore County? Affected by the proposed 70-mile pipeline that will cut thru farmland & horse country? Want to @STOPMPRP? Here’s what you need to know: (@BaltimoreBanner) thebaltimorebanner.com/community/loca…
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…
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…
An entrepreneur had big plans for a West Baltimore grocery store. Then rent came due. buff.ly/CkMYPq0
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…
Some Baltimore solid waste workers didn't realize they had access to health insurance, so why not automatically sign them up? It was a simple solution to a simple problem, or so Bill Henry thought. But nothing is ever simple in Baltimore. thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…
A former aide to a Maryland state senator agreed to serve 4 weekends in jail in order to be granted probation before judgement on charges she redirected $20K of scholarship money to herself. She also paid the money back to the state. thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…
A course can be one of the world’s best without an exclusionary model — that’s how it was always supposed to be. On Royal Portrush, the contrast of American country club culture and preserving golf’s egalitarian roots, for @TheAthletic: nytimes.com/athletic/64910…
It’s standing room only at Baltimore City Council’s hearing on police accountability that’s underway now. Councilman Mark Conway says there were 2269 complaints filed in 2024, 773 of alleged “serious misconduct.” The vast majority are still considered open, he says
For years, Scott Plank has been pitching his Canton heliport as a new home for Foxtrot, Baltimore's police helicopter fleet. Now money for the project has appeared in the state budget although the city never asked for it (w/@justin_fenton & @Invisibae) thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…
Spotted in Blowing Rock along with lots of team-issue Euro gear on sale
