The photoshop issue can be mitigated by requiring a video instead of a photo. In NYC, the city offers bounties to people who submit videos of commercial vehicles idling. I'd love to see Baltimore do the same.

Hell yes, love a new/old industrial vibe. Put some google eyes on them and establish a new branch of Mr. Trash Wheel's family tree.

GRIA's email list.

Remington resident and attendee of the meeting. I appreciate the apology. However, I would more greatly appreciate a prompt commitment to making sure this project happens before the window for the grant funding closes.

It would also be a more meaningful apology if it were followed up with DOT taking GRIA's neighborhood-wide requests for traffic calming seriously. We have significant problems with speeding and reckless driving on side/residential streets as well, especially in South Remington. It's frustrating to see more well-off streets like Cresmont receive speed humps while less well-off residential streets in South Remington get ignored, despite multiple serious recent accidents like cars flipping upside down and out-of-control vehicles crashing into houses.

I'm so glad that you received sex ed! It's obviously crucial. Unfortunately, after a decade of teaching in BCPSS, I've never worked at a school that consistently taught sex ed. Lots of schools, particularly the better ones, do cover the topics well. Sadly, this is frequently not the case. For example, I taught in a high school where the health teacher's "sex ed" unit of the health class consisted of assigning students research projects on STDs and then teaching that condoms prevent STD transmission and pregnancy. No discussion of other methods at all. I also taught in a middle school that brought in an outside organization to teach sex ed but the program only lasted one year. It was really too bad because the organization (a branch of Planned Parenthood) did a phenomenal job.

It's extremely hit or miss. Some schools do and some schools don't. High schools are supposed to include it in the required health class, but that class isn't a state tested subject, so it's often taught by long-term subs or other unqualified individuals. It's often glossed over or taught ineffectively. The adults teaching the class don't have a thorough required training for the subject matter so the quality varies dramatically.

Sex ed is not required in middle school. Some schools will provide it, particularly as part of a partnership program with Planned Parenthood, Hopkins, or something like that. But many schools do not provide it at all. At the middle school level, it depends on if it's a priority of the school administrators.

That's nice, but it would be so much more efficient if all the middle and high schools actually taught sex ed.

I dislike On the Hill's coffee. I used to get it regularly and it always, and I mean always, had grounds in the bottom of my cup.

I respectfully disagree about the bagels. I think their bagels are well-toasted (MUCH better than On The Hill's "toast" situation) and am happy with the amount of cream cheese on them. Some places add so much cream cheese that it's overkill and wasteful. For me, Charmington's hits the cream cheese sweet spot. It's not an authentic NYC bagel, but it's also not really a bagel shop.

However, I rarely order a bagel there because their breakfast sandwiches are SO good. They make a delicious vegan bacon.

I didn't go there in 2019 so I can't speak to that, but I think the current staff is lovely and A+ for being worker-owned.

The MDSPCA offers classes. https://www.mdspca.org/community-outreach/training/. There's also a discount for people with low income if you qualify.