Emily Opilo

@emilyopilo

City Hall reporter for @baltimorebanner. Former @baltimoresun. Cuse alum and PA native.

Baltimore, MD

Joined February 2009

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Adam Willis@adampwillis · 21 h

A new Baltimore marathon subjects runners to the worst the city has to offer: traffic, direct sun & the heat of a July afternoon "Experience the suffering of the world we’ve created" said its director, who presided over the carnage while sipping cold beer thebaltimorebanner.com/community/clim…

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Greg Morton@Invisibae · Jul 24

NEW: The Trump administration's attempts to dismantle large parts of the federal workforce are starting to show up in the data. In June, Maryland lost more federal jobs than any state in the country — the most in nearly three decades.⁩ thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/ripple…

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Emily Opilo@emilyopilo · Jul 24

Body found inside van pulled from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor thebaltimorebanner.com/community/loca…

emilyopilo's tweet card. Baltimore City Police Underwater Recovery Team and the Baltimore City Fire Department recovered the vehicle around 11 a.m. from the water at 501 East Pratt Street.

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Alex Mann@alex_mann10 · Jul 24

Anne Arundel County has 533 miles of shoreline. One mile is for public swimming. Why is that? For @BaltimoreBanner: thebaltimorebanner.com/community/loca…

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Tim Prudente@Tim_Prudente · Jul 23

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…

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Emily Opilo@emilyopilo · Jul 23

Why is underground Baltimore burning? City Council hearing yields no answer, reports @HayesGardner thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power…

emilyopilo's tweet card. City leaders hope third-party investigator can figure out why Baltimore’s manholes keep exploding.

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Emily Opilo@emilyopilo · Jul 23

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…

emilyopilo's tweet card. Weeks after Baltimore leaders sounded the alarm about massive backlogs in the city’s newly instituted permitting system, housing and building permits continue to lag well behind previous years.

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Emily Opilo@emilyopilo · Jul 22

Baltimore City Council’s hearing on permit backlogs will kick off at 5:15, not 4:30. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time sitting in an empty council chambers, in case you were wondering

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Justin Fenton@justin_fenton · Jul 22

ICYMI: He’a never cut open and examined a body; he doesn’t even have a medical degree. But this Towson University psychology professor and his studies on cognitive bias have shaken up the world of medical examiners. W/ @mercohn: thebaltimorebanner.com/community/crim…

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Adam Willis@adampwillis · Jul 22

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…

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Emily Opilo@emilyopilo · Jul 21

Baltimore City Council has finally scheduled its hearing on behavior health crisis response in light of several police-involved deaths recently. That hearing will be Wed. Aug. 27.

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