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Chris B.

@baltoskyline.bsky.social

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Monumental City past, present, future | higher ed guy | full-time husband/dad | history nerd | railroad enthusiast

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 23h

Trump admin has frozen or cancelled $28 b for projects, almost all in Dem districts. Small amount of frozen funds in GOP districts are in predominately Dem states (CA, OR, WA, CO, MN, IL, NY, MD), or in predominately Dem cities (St Louis, Atlanta, Greenville) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump admin is freezing or cancelling billions of dollars in funding for projects in Democratic areas.

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Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 1d

All of this for a replica. 😂

Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 1d

Aside from what would have been the Inner Harbor station at Light and Conway, the south line then veers away from Federal Hill and South Baltimore.

Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I never realized that the transit planners back in the 1960s probably never thought the harbor would be anything other than industrial, they didn’t plan any stations along the waterfront.

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Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 2d

Gilbert’s gotta be pissed. That’s 6 strikes.

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Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 2d

I, for one, welcome our new ABS overlords.

Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 2d

Next year that will be a strikeout

Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 5d

ABS is going to cut out a lot of nonsense.

Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 5d

Jiffy Lube playing classic tv.

Baywatch lifeguard Mitch Buchanan in a wheel chair.

Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 5d

I get the jitters just from walking on the field at OPACY during kids run the bases.

Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 5d

Good thing I was blessed with zero athletic talent!

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Absolutely Hammered @ahpod.bsky.social · 5d

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Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 5d

Dude’s going to be waking up in the middle of the night over that one for a long time. Oof.

Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 5d

Worked out for Matt Holliday!

Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 5d

Kerkering, what were you thinking?

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Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 5d

FFS Phillies!!

a man is making a funny face in a kitchen while wearing a baseball cap .

ALT: a man is making a funny face in a kitchen while wearing a baseball cap .

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Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 5d

It would be demonstrably worse if the city’s businesses left the city entirely, but yeah the business center has always shifted to follow new construction. Even Charles Center did that in the 1950s/1960s. If the old CBD continues to become more mixed-use that would be a net positive.

Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 5d

BBJ and to a lesser extent the Banner tend to give negative framing to this stuff like it’s somehow “a loss”. Like when they talk about businesses moving from downtown to Port Covington and the headline is “big blow to downtown!”

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Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 5d

Right so at the end of the day who cares? The brewery maintains its independent operation, no one is losing their jobs, they get a larger distribution areas, and Maryland still gets tax revenue. It’s still a Maryland business even if it’s now part of a collaborative incorporated in another state.

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Chris B. @baltoskyline.bsky.social · 5d

Is Heavy Seas actually getting acquired or are they joining the established partnership with the other brewers? The article seems to point to both and not answer either.