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UpdatedThu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:04 am ET Reply(1) (Elizabeth Janney/Patch) BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD — Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. submitted his $4.2 billion operating budget proposal Thursday. Of that, more than $2.05 billion will go to education. It also includes an effort to fund the countys recovery amid the COVID-19 pandemic. "This budget is an investment in our shared future and a better Baltimore County – with stronger schools, vibrant communities and a thriving econom...

This story was co-published with The New Yorker and is not subject to our Creative Commons license. When Amazon opened its second fulfillment center in the Baltimore region, in 2018, most anyone driving to it from the city arrived via Dundalk Avenue, which took them past a yellow brick building that was constructed in 1952 to house Local 2609 and 2610 of the United Steelworkers and an adjacent building that opened after Local 2610 moved into its own space. By then, the buildings were mostly vac...

Baltimore County may soon build its first new public park in more than six years on a swath of land within Tradepoint Atlantic, an industrial site once owned — and polluted — by the former Bethlehem Steel mill.

How Amazon Exploited a Weakened America The immense power of Jeff Bezos’s empire reveals a country that has been falling apart for quite some time. ILLUSTRATION BY BEN JONES During the Covid-19 pandemic, one in four Americans has struggled to pay their bills, and as of mid-January, unemployment claims surpassed those of the Great Recession for the forty-third straight week. As of February, more than 24 million people reported that their households sometimes didn’t have enough to eat. Many l...

Patient readers, this is a bit short. More soon. –lambert Bird Song of the Day Another migratory bird from the Birds of the Atlantic Flyway. From the Note: “See 1:27 for a masterful run.” * * * #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching. Early in February, I said a simple way to compare Biden’s performance to Trump’s on vaccination would be ...

Elizabeth Greenwood March 16, 2021Updated: March 18, 2021, 2:33 pm “Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America” by Alec MacGillis Photo: Farrar, Straus and Giroux I often think about the habits I perpetrate that stand in contradiction to my values yet I find myself unable to shake. I eat meat when I adore animals; I’m addicted to the dopamine rush of social media yet hate how it hijacks my brain; I rely on Amazon when I know full well the havoc it wreaks. After read...

In Fulfillment: Winning And Losing In One-Click America, Alec MacGillis explores the vast machine that Jeff Bezos has constructed with Amazon and the people who get caught in its gears.

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In ‘Fulfillment,’ One-Click Shopping Is Cheap, Easy and Economically Unsustainable To hear him tell it, Jeff Bezos loves stories. Not necessarily the ones contained in books — those items that propelled Amazon’s rise from its beginnings in a Seattle garage in 1994 to the global behemoth it is today. Bezos started out by selling books not out of any literary affection but because they were a useful commodity, the kind that could give a fledgling online marketplace a competiti...