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Two ballot questions supported with an infusion of cash from the chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group may appear on ballots this fall in Baltimore.

Baltimore’s free ferry system gets commuters and others where they need to go.

Questions have been raised about the effectiveness and oversight of the COVID-19 relief program, which awarded $28.6 billion in grants to thousands of businesses.

Today, more than 200 years after Frederick Douglass was born in 1818 on the Eastern Shore, sojourners can explore the landscapes of his youth, his pivotal time in Baltimore and beyond, via heritage sites, walking and self-driving tours, exhibits and more.

The Army Corps’ proposal calls for flood walls only to keep water out of the city’s two main highway tunnels. The plan suggests floodproofing more waterfront homes and businesses instead of waterfront neighborhoods.

The proposal would reunite 18 neighborhoods previously divided by district lines, officials said.

A new plan to prevent damage in Baltimore from storms like Sandy in 2012 and Isabel doesn’t include sea walls of storm surge barriers, except for the city’s tunnels, and instead recommends property owners flood-proof their homes and businesses near the Patapsco River.

Later this year, Paul Thomas, owner of The CIVIL in Mount Vernon, intends to open a hookah lounge and a mac and cheese takeout joint, both in Fells Point.

To prevent damage from storms such as Sandy in 2012 and Isabel, a watershed flood event for Baltimore in 2003, the Army Corps of Engineers has been studying for years whether widespread sea walls or massive storm surge barriers would help.