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Lillian Reed

@lillianreed.bsky.social
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Professional busybody at The Baltimore Banner

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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 02/06/2026
Amid growing opposition to data center development nationwide, the Howard County Council unanimously passed a temporary moratorium on the development of new data centers to study their impacts.
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Howard County temporarily halts data center development
The Howard County Council on Monday unanimously passed a temporary moratorium on the development of new data centers and created a task force to study their impacts.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 14/04/2026
BREAKING: Banner parent company to buy Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, staving off newspaper’s closure
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Banner parent company to buy Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, staving off its closure
The Venetoulis Institute will acquire the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, converting it to a nonprofit to prevent the historic paper’s closure.
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Dylan Segelbaum @dylansegelbaum.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
By Jessica Calefati, @leeosanderlin.bsky.social and @jessicagallagher.bsky.social: Everyone has seen Baltimore’s missing boy. So why can’t authorities find him? (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)
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Everyone has seen Baltimore’s missing boy. So why can’t authorities find him?
Tristan King ran from a caseworker in Baltimore and has been missing since September. Brooklyn residents have seen him, but authorities can’t find him.
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Dylan Segelbaum @dylansegelbaum.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
By @lillianreed.bsky.social: Columbia’s figure skating pioneer is 86 and not about to quit. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)
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Columbia’s figure skating pioneer is 86 and not about to quit
Forget the “Quad God.” Columbia Figure Skating Club cofounder Patricia Muth is 86 and not about to quit. The Banner sat down with her to talk about her decades as an ice skating instructor and the Win...
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Justin Fenton @justinfenton.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
A child died after crashing while fleeing a traffic stop in Howard County last month; the Attorney General's Office says it will not identify her, citing a juvenile secrecy law no one else applies this way. Im hoping someone out there knows who she was. Please reach out if you have info
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Dylan Segelbaum @dylansegelbaum.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
It happens thousands of times every year. More than 35% of all applications for charges statewide in 2024 came from people outside law enforcement.
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Julie Bykowicz @bykowicz.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
NEW: The IRS has scrutinized Baltimore nonprofit Second Chance, its appraiser and donors for years. Donors have been writing off their entire homes, rather than just salvaged materials. Tax guys say, uh, no. Read @lillianreed.bsky.social in @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebanner.com/economy/seco...
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Second Chance’s fight with the IRS brought scrutiny to donors
In a new court filing, an appraiser for Second Chance says the IRS is waging a “scorched earth assault” on the Baltimore-based nonprofit that sells secondhand furniture and building supplies.
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Lillian Reed @lillianreed.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
For-profit house parties are raging in Maryland's suburbs. Lawmakers in Howard and Montgomery counties are taking steps to crack down on the practice, which shares close ties to the short-term rental industry.
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Howard County may crack down on paid house parties
For-profit house parties are raging in suburban Maryland, prompting Howard and Montgomery county officials to crack down on the practice.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 05/07/2025
Amid spat with mayor, theater owner wants another chance to bring historic Havre de Grace venue up to code
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Theater owner blames closing of historic Havre de Grace venue on spat with mayor
On July 1, Havre de Grace shut down the historic State Theater, saying the 300-seat venue had continued to hold events without a final permit.
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Greg Morton @invisibae.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
NEW: Baltimore students told about their experiences with violence and harassment on the way to school in the state's only district without yellow bus service for middle and high schoolers. @lizbowie.bsky.social and I on what students are facing every day www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...
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It’s not just late buses: Baltimore kids face serious safety risks
Baltimore students have been followed, harassed, assaulted and held up at gunpoint while crisscrossing the city on public transit to get to and from school.
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Lillian Reed @lillianreed.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The talks reveal the extent of the federal government’s efforts to push for change in one of Maryland’s so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions.
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ICE pressures Howard County in public and behind closed doors
Federal immigration authorities are meeting behind closed doors with Howard County’s top elected leaders to discuss a dispute over detaining people in the county jail who are suspected of entering the...
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Julie Bykowicz @bykowicz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
NEWS: Beloved Baltimore nonprofit Second Chance is tangling with the IRS. Via @lillianreed.bsky.social in @thebaltimorebanner.com www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/nonp...
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The IRS fined Second Chance for helping donors dodge taxes
A federal lawsuit filed by Second Chance reveals that the Baltimore nonprofit and its founder, Mark Foster, are under IRS scrutiny.
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Lillian Reed @lillianreed.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I started covering Howard County about six months ago. Almost immediately, people started telling me about "City Hall." It turned out to be a Columbia Starbucks.
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Why Howard County’s power brokers prefer to meet at the Wilde Lake Village Starbucks
The biggest political conversations in Howard County often happen at the Wilde Lake Village Starbucks.
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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I sat down w/ Gov. Wes Moore and talked about the Trump administration, and his role in the Democratic response. "I don’t think it’s my job to tell the Democratic Party how to find itself," he told me. He wants to focus instead on protecting Marylanders. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
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Gov. Moore says it's not his job to chart Democrats' future
Moore said he didn’t even watch Trump’s speech Tuesday night
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Greg Morton @invisibae.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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. Read ⬇️ www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-...
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Transit nightmare: Thousands of Baltimore kids can’t get to school on time
Unreliable public transportation turns school choice into a false promise.
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Lillian Reed @lillianreed.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
President Donald Trump's administration called its buyout offer to federal workers a "fork in the road." One Marylander bought utensils from a thrift store and handed them out at Tuesday night’s federal workers forum in Howard County. She said “I don’t want your damn fork."
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Maryland federal workers feel pressure ahead of buyout deadline
Maryland’s thousands of federal workers are feeling pressure about the Trump administration’s buyout offer as part of his effort to dramatically cut the government. Hundreds of them came to a Howard C...
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Kimi Yoshino @kyoshino.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
In all, 9 women from 5 different high-end spas have shared allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior by the Ravens Justin Tucker with @thebaltimorebanner.com. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/sports/raven...
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Ravens’ Justin Tucker faces new allegations from 3 massage therapists
Three additional massage therapists are accusing Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker of sexually inappropriate behavior.
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Dylan Segelbaum @dylansegelbaum.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
By @justinfenton.bsky.social, @brennasmith.bsky.social and @juliemore19.bsky.social: Ravens' Justin Tucker accused of inappropriate sexual behavior by six massage therapists. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)
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Ravens' Justin Tucker accused of inappropriate behavior by six massage therapists
Women say Justin Tucker repeatedly exposed his genitals and, in three instances, apparently left ejaculate on tables after massages.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 28/01/2025
Maryland among states shut out of Medicaid system, health secretary says
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Maryland shut out of Medicaid system, health secretary says
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on social media that the Trump administration is aware of the issue and that no payments had been affected.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 23/01/2025
Amazon didn’t want Columbia Gateway, so Howard County has a new people-friendly plan
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The plan for a Howard County business park Amazon didn’t want
Howard County planners and consultants presented their preferred plan for redeveloping Columbia Gateway, the business park that Amazon passed over for its East Coast headquarters in 2018.
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Lillian Reed @lillianreed.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
A hedge fund is displeased with the Texas-based developer that owns much of downtown Columbia.
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What a hedge fund’s $1 billion play has to do with downtown Columbia
It’s not clear what the hedge fund ownership could mean for Columbia, which was founded in 1967 by James Rouse as a model of racial and socioeconomic integration.
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Dylan Segelbaum @dylansegelbaum.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Vigilante mom arrested in Columbia shooting of two teens, police say, @lillianreed.bsky.social reports. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)
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Vigilante mom arrested in Columbia shooting of two teens, police say
A Columbia woman is facing charges in Howard County tied to an Oct. 12 shooting that injured two teenagers.
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Dylan Segelbaum @dylansegelbaum.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
By @lillianreed.bsky.social: What a dispute over Hanukkah lights in Howard County is really about. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)
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What a dispute over Hanukkah lights in Howard County is really about
It would be too simple to characterize the dispute over the Levines’ Hanukkah lights as a neighborhood squabble.
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Dylan Segelbaum @dylansegelbaum.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Howard County jury awards a record $7.25 million verdict in medical malpractice suit, @lillianreed.bsky.social reports. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)
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Howard County jury awards record $7.25 million verdict in medical malpractice suit
The trial in Howard County Circuit Court ended with what is believed to be the largest medical malpractice verdict in county history
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