Greg Morton
@invisibae.bsky.social
Data editor at the Banner
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Greg Morton
@invisibae.bsky.social
· Feb 18
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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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 ⬇️
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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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For my first story of 2026, I dug into the numbers defining a trend that has exploded in Maryland since the pandemic: homeschooling. There's been a 50% uptick since the 2019-20 school year, holding steady as public school enrollment declines www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
Homeschooling has exploded in Maryland
A by-the-numbers look at the increase in Maryland homeschooling since COVID-19 that seems here to stay.
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January 2, 2026 at 1:51 PM
For my first story of 2026, I dug into the numbers defining a trend that has exploded in Maryland since the pandemic: homeschooling. There's been a 50% uptick since the 2019-20 school year, holding steady as public school enrollment declines www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
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December 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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After years of covering 300+ homicides, I tried to take stock of what it means for Baltimore to finally see fewer than 150 victims this year. But people kept getting killed.
2 things are true: we’ve seen historic declines, and still too many ppl are dying www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
2 things are true: we’ve seen historic declines, and still too many ppl are dying www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
December 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
After years of covering 300+ homicides, I tried to take stock of what it means for Baltimore to finally see fewer than 150 victims this year. But people kept getting killed.
2 things are true: we’ve seen historic declines, and still too many ppl are dying www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
2 things are true: we’ve seen historic declines, and still too many ppl are dying www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
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Baltimore homicides declined furthest, fastest in the country as killings will reach a 48-year low, report @conarck.bsky.social , @invisibae.bsky.social , @sahanajayaraman.bsky.social www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
Analysis: Baltimore homicides declined furthest, fastest in the country, could reach a 48-year low
Baltimore is on track to end 2025 with its lowest homicide total in 48 years, with fewer than 150 killings expected, marking a significant decline since 2022.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Baltimore homicides declined furthest, fastest in the country as killings will reach a 48-year low, report @conarck.bsky.social , @invisibae.bsky.social , @sahanajayaraman.bsky.social www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
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Absolutely incredible news in Baltimore, reported out by @conarck.bsky.social, Greg Morton and Sahana Jayaraman in @thebaltimorebanner.com —
Analysis: Baltimore homicides declined furthest, fastest in the country, could reach a 48-year low
Baltimore is on track to end 2025 with its lowest homicide total in 48 years, with fewer than 150 killings expected, marking a significant decline since 2022.
www.thebanner.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Absolutely incredible news in Baltimore, reported out by @conarck.bsky.social, Greg Morton and Sahana Jayaraman in @thebaltimorebanner.com —
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An historic drop in gun violence in Baltimore is drawing the nation’s attention. A remarkable success story. What’s behind it?
For @thebaltimorebanner.com
For @thebaltimorebanner.com
NEW:
Baltimore is on track to finish 2025 with its fewest homicides in about 50 years. Before Two-thirds of city residents were even born.
Baltimore homicides have further and faster than anywhere in the nation since 2018.
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
Baltimore is on track to finish 2025 with its fewest homicides in about 50 years. Before Two-thirds of city residents were even born.
Baltimore homicides have further and faster than anywhere in the nation since 2018.
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
Analysis: Baltimore homicides declined furthest, fastest in the country, could reach a 48-year low
Baltimore is on track to end 2025 with its lowest homicide total in 48 years, with fewer than 150 killings expected, marking a significant decline since 2022.
www.thebanner.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
An historic drop in gun violence in Baltimore is drawing the nation’s attention. A remarkable success story. What’s behind it?
For @thebaltimorebanner.com
For @thebaltimorebanner.com
NEW:
Baltimore is on track to finish 2025 with its fewest homicides in about 50 years. Before Two-thirds of city residents were even born.
Baltimore homicides have further and faster than anywhere in the nation since 2018.
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
Baltimore is on track to finish 2025 with its fewest homicides in about 50 years. Before Two-thirds of city residents were even born.
Baltimore homicides have further and faster than anywhere in the nation since 2018.
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
Analysis: Baltimore homicides declined furthest, fastest in the country, could reach a 48-year low
Baltimore is on track to end 2025 with its lowest homicide total in 48 years, with fewer than 150 killings expected, marking a significant decline since 2022.
www.thebanner.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
NEW:
Baltimore is on track to finish 2025 with its fewest homicides in about 50 years. Before Two-thirds of city residents were even born.
Baltimore homicides have further and faster than anywhere in the nation since 2018.
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
Baltimore is on track to finish 2025 with its fewest homicides in about 50 years. Before Two-thirds of city residents were even born.
Baltimore homicides have further and faster than anywhere in the nation since 2018.
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
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This graphic from @invisibae.bsky.social puts into perspective the Orioles’ poor run of first-round pitching since 1991. Only three teams have generated less WAR from first rounders, and one of them didn’t begin as a team until 1998. Another, the Braves, built one of the best rotations via trade
November 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This graphic from @invisibae.bsky.social puts into perspective the Orioles’ poor run of first-round pitching since 1991. Only three teams have generated less WAR from first rounders, and one of them didn’t begin as a team until 1998. Another, the Braves, built one of the best rotations via trade
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Since 1991, the year after Baltimore drafted Mike Mussina, the Orioles have taken 20 first-round pitchers. They’ve generated 19.9 WAR combined when pitching for the Orioles — 27th out of 30 MLB teams.
From @invisibae.bsky.social
and me, the long run of bad luck:
www.thebanner.com/sports/oriol...
From @invisibae.bsky.social
and me, the long run of bad luck:
www.thebanner.com/sports/oriol...
Grayson Rodriguez trade highlights Orioles’ inability to develop pitching
Before Rodriguez, there were Cody Sedlock, Matt Hobgood, Adam Loewen and more.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Since 1991, the year after Baltimore drafted Mike Mussina, the Orioles have taken 20 first-round pitchers. They’ve generated 19.9 WAR combined when pitching for the Orioles — 27th out of 30 MLB teams.
From @invisibae.bsky.social
and me, the long run of bad luck:
www.thebanner.com/sports/oriol...
From @invisibae.bsky.social
and me, the long run of bad luck:
www.thebanner.com/sports/oriol...
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By @lizbowie.bsky.social, @invisibae.bsky.social and @ajv.bsky.social: School buses for every Baltimore student seemed impossible — until now. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)
School buses for every Baltimore student seemed impossible — until now
School transportation company HopSkipDrive used AI and a Banner analysis to map how yellow buses, vans and cars could get Baltimore students to school safely and on time for less than 5% of the distri...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
By @lizbowie.bsky.social, @invisibae.bsky.social and @ajv.bsky.social: School buses for every Baltimore student seemed impossible — until now. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)
NEW: Thousands of Baltimore students can’t get to school on time because of unreliable transit.
The city's school choice system complicates creating a yellow bus network for all.
A new plan proves it can be done.
w/ @lizbowie.bsky.social & @ajv.bsky.social
www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
The city's school choice system complicates creating a yellow bus network for all.
A new plan proves it can be done.
w/ @lizbowie.bsky.social & @ajv.bsky.social
www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
School buses for every Baltimore student seemed impossible — until now
School transportation company HopSkipDrive used AI and a Banner analysis to map how yellow buses, vans and cars could get Baltimore students to school safely and on time for less than 5% of the distri...
www.thebanner.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
NEW: Thousands of Baltimore students can’t get to school on time because of unreliable transit.
The city's school choice system complicates creating a yellow bus network for all.
A new plan proves it can be done.
w/ @lizbowie.bsky.social & @ajv.bsky.social
www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
The city's school choice system complicates creating a yellow bus network for all.
A new plan proves it can be done.
w/ @lizbowie.bsky.social & @ajv.bsky.social
www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
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Baltimore City is offering up to $5,000 over two months to help essential federal workers and families on SNAP with child care costs. But there are already hundreds of families in line. Here's how you can join them: www.thebanner.com/education/ea...
How Baltimore parents can get two months of child care help
Baltimore federal essential workers and families on SNAP can get up to $2,500 a month. Here’s how.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Baltimore City is offering up to $5,000 over two months to help essential federal workers and families on SNAP with child care costs. But there are already hundreds of families in line. Here's how you can join them: www.thebanner.com/education/ea...
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State school board says Harford County’s book ban shouldn’t have happened
State school board says Harford County’s book ban shouldn’t have happened
Maryland’s school board is reversing Harford County’s decision remove a book from public school libraries — the first time the state has intervened in a local decision about what’s appropriate...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
State school board says Harford County’s book ban shouldn’t have happened
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Fantastic and deep reporting in @thebaltimorebanner.com today from @conarck.bsky.social and @invisibae.bsky.social:
‘Driving while Black’ persists in Baltimore County
Black drivers make up most of the traffic stops in Baltimore County, despite being 30% of the population — disparities police have known about for years but have failed to fix.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Fantastic and deep reporting in @thebaltimorebanner.com today from @conarck.bsky.social and @invisibae.bsky.social:
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New investigation w/ @invisibae.bsky.social:
Baltimore County has the worst racial disparities in traffic stops throughout Maryland. Officers accused of profiling are quickly exonerated despite issuing 70-89% of their tickets to Black drivers. Read more:
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
Baltimore County has the worst racial disparities in traffic stops throughout Maryland. Officers accused of profiling are quickly exonerated despite issuing 70-89% of their tickets to Black drivers. Read more:
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
‘Driving while Black’ persists in Baltimore County
Black drivers make up most of the traffic stops in Baltimore County, despite being 30% of the population — disparities police have known about for years but have failed to fix.
www.thebanner.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
New investigation w/ @invisibae.bsky.social:
Baltimore County has the worst racial disparities in traffic stops throughout Maryland. Officers accused of profiling are quickly exonerated despite issuing 70-89% of their tickets to Black drivers. Read more:
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
Baltimore County has the worst racial disparities in traffic stops throughout Maryland. Officers accused of profiling are quickly exonerated despite issuing 70-89% of their tickets to Black drivers. Read more:
www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
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Had fun thinking out loud about the Baltimore harbor's huge, maybe historic? pistachio tide with Lindsay Smith Rogers at Johns Hopkins.
A year ago, Lindsay did a deep dive into Baltimore's progress toward a swimmable harbor. Things have felt different the last few weeks...
A year ago, Lindsay did a deep dive into Baltimore's progress toward a swimmable harbor. Things have felt different the last few weeks...
A year after our episode on the fight to make Baltimore’s harbor safe for swimming, the harbor is recovering from “the ecological equivalent of a heart attack”.
@thebaltimorebanner.com’s @adampwillis.bsky.social gives an update on the "pistachio tide".
podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/967-an-updat...
@thebaltimorebanner.com’s @adampwillis.bsky.social gives an update on the "pistachio tide".
podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/967-an-updat...
October 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Had fun thinking out loud about the Baltimore harbor's huge, maybe historic? pistachio tide with Lindsay Smith Rogers at Johns Hopkins.
A year ago, Lindsay did a deep dive into Baltimore's progress toward a swimmable harbor. Things have felt different the last few weeks...
A year ago, Lindsay did a deep dive into Baltimore's progress toward a swimmable harbor. Things have felt different the last few weeks...
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Do you ever get so overwhelmed at work you need to take a walk to clear your head? It happens to kids, too, which is why they should go outside, play and learn naturally from the world around them. Click for the cute pictures, keep reading for the brain science www.thebanner.com/education/ea...
Preschool without a building could be in Maryland’s future
Maryland is one of just a handful of states piloting licenses for outdoor, nature-based child care programs.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Do you ever get so overwhelmed at work you need to take a walk to clear your head? It happens to kids, too, which is why they should go outside, play and learn naturally from the world around them. Click for the cute pictures, keep reading for the brain science www.thebanner.com/education/ea...
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I had such an incredible time (🥁) visiting the Renaissance Festival and talking with vendors there for this story.
The Maryland Renn Fest is a true institution, and one of the most popular festivals like it in the country. It's also, as I found out, one of the most desirable for vendors.
The Maryland Renn Fest is a true institution, and one of the most popular festivals like it in the country. It's also, as I found out, one of the most desirable for vendors.
About time: Maryland native realizes dream with Renaissance Festival shop
The fifth time was the charm for Sharon Lane, a Maryland native who landed a hard-to-get spot at the Maryland Renaissance Festival this year. The sold-out festival in Anne Arundel County concludes thi...
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October 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I had such an incredible time (🥁) visiting the Renaissance Festival and talking with vendors there for this story.
The Maryland Renn Fest is a true institution, and one of the most popular festivals like it in the country. It's also, as I found out, one of the most desirable for vendors.
The Maryland Renn Fest is a true institution, and one of the most popular festivals like it in the country. It's also, as I found out, one of the most desirable for vendors.
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His Costa Rica era: Brandon Chasen consulting, teaching surf lessons. (w/ @invisibae.bsky.social) (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)
Brandon Chasen consulting, teaching surf lessons in Costa Rica
Chasen, 39, testified for about two hours Thursday in the Edward A. Garmatz U.S. Courthouse in Baltimore during a hearing in his namesake real estate company's bankruptcy case.
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October 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
His Costa Rica era: Brandon Chasen consulting, teaching surf lessons. (w/ @invisibae.bsky.social) (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)
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“This is very much an all-hands-on-deck sort of battlefield triage,” Earl Stoddard, the county’s assistant chief administrative officer, said of cuts to federal grant programs
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
Montgomery County leaders say they will stretch the budget — to a point
Montgomery County leaders say they can plug some of the holes the federal government is punching in the local economy — but not all.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“This is very much an all-hands-on-deck sort of battlefield triage,” Earl Stoddard, the county’s assistant chief administrative officer, said of cuts to federal grant programs
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
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Can a video game help solve public transit in Baltimore? Danny Zawodny and @invisibae.bsky.social report. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)
Can a video game help solve public transit in Baltimore?
‘Subway Builder’ lets transit nerds build their dream subway system. Can it fix Baltimore's public transit issues?
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October 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Can a video game help solve public transit in Baltimore? Danny Zawodny and @invisibae.bsky.social report. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)
HAPPY SUBWAY BUILDER DAY
We have spent the week playing with the game that has captured transit nerds' hearts.
We spoke with Colin Miller, the game's creator, about why he built the game and how it can help us dream about better transit in Baltimore.
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We have spent the week playing with the game that has captured transit nerds' hearts.
We spoke with Colin Miller, the game's creator, about why he built the game and how it can help us dream about better transit in Baltimore.
www.thebanner.com/community/tr...
October 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
HAPPY SUBWAY BUILDER DAY
We have spent the week playing with the game that has captured transit nerds' hearts.
We spoke with Colin Miller, the game's creator, about why he built the game and how it can help us dream about better transit in Baltimore.
www.thebanner.com/community/tr...
We have spent the week playing with the game that has captured transit nerds' hearts.
We spoke with Colin Miller, the game's creator, about why he built the game and how it can help us dream about better transit in Baltimore.
www.thebanner.com/community/tr...
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NEW: A few weeks ago, @muckrock.com
shared the Brady list for Baltimore County. Scanning it, I noticed the police chief was on there. I then spent weeks trying to figure out why. But no one — not the state's attorney, nor the police department — is explaining it. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
shared the Brady list for Baltimore County. Scanning it, I noticed the police chief was on there. I then spent weeks trying to figure out why. But no one — not the state's attorney, nor the police department — is explaining it. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
Baltimore County’s police chief is on a list of cops with credibility concerns
Robert McCullough, the Baltimore County Police Department chief, appears on a list of law enforcement officers whose potential credibility concerns require disclosure to defense attorneys if they’re c...
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October 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
NEW: A few weeks ago, @muckrock.com
shared the Brady list for Baltimore County. Scanning it, I noticed the police chief was on there. I then spent weeks trying to figure out why. But no one — not the state's attorney, nor the police department — is explaining it. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
shared the Brady list for Baltimore County. Scanning it, I noticed the police chief was on there. I then spent weeks trying to figure out why. But no one — not the state's attorney, nor the police department — is explaining it. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
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By @juliemore19.bsky.social: There’s a ghost town buried under Loch Raven. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)
There’s a ghost town buried under Loch Raven
Warren was once a bustling mill town, but it was flooded more than a century ago to enlarge the Loch Raven Reservoir. Now just a few remnants of the town haunt the surrounding woods.
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October 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
By @juliemore19.bsky.social: There’s a ghost town buried under Loch Raven. (via @thebaltimorebanner.com)
NEW INVESTIGATION:
Investors have spent years falling in love with the 'debt service coverage ratio' loan.
The loans have allowed access to vast sums with few conditions, and now make up 40% of mortgage dollars in Baltimore.
Now they're going bad.
(Story below ⬇️)
Investors have spent years falling in love with the 'debt service coverage ratio' loan.
The loans have allowed access to vast sums with few conditions, and now make up 40% of mortgage dollars in Baltimore.
Now they're going bad.
(Story below ⬇️)
October 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
NEW INVESTIGATION:
Investors have spent years falling in love with the 'debt service coverage ratio' loan.
The loans have allowed access to vast sums with few conditions, and now make up 40% of mortgage dollars in Baltimore.
Now they're going bad.
(Story below ⬇️)
Investors have spent years falling in love with the 'debt service coverage ratio' loan.
The loans have allowed access to vast sums with few conditions, and now make up 40% of mortgage dollars in Baltimore.
Now they're going bad.
(Story below ⬇️)