Brian O’Malley

Congratulations to the Blue Jays. I’m crushed. But I was visiting Toronto in April when the team signed Vlad Jr to a long term deal and it was fun to see fans in the city excited. The team took off after that.

A pair of tickets for the Toronto Blue Jays at the Seattle Mariners on October 3, 1981 in the Kingdome.

Mariners Blue Jays October baseball 😉.

As a kid as we would walk the ramps of the Kingdome after a game I’d pick up any ticket stubs that people dropped. I kept them in a shoe box.

Go M’s!!!

'On the Record' signs off with reminisces and thanks After more than nine years, On the Record signs off. Thank you to our listeners, and to everyone who trusted us with your ideas, stories and to amplify the work you do for Maryland, and for Baltimore.

Thank you On the Record and @wypr.bsky.social. I heard many interesting and often uplifting things and was honored to be a guest on your show.

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Found: TCL Phone

Found on a southbound #WMATA D70 bus on Sunday 9/28 in Washington DC.

If it’s yours, call it and I’ll make a plan to get it back to you.

#LostandFound

Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee | The West: A Film by Steven Ives | Ken Burns | PBS The survivors speak.

please repost
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cmon man, Astros fans can’t read

Speaking officially as the host of Jeopardy!, Cal Raleigh is the correct MVP vote.

Last weekend I rode the new Sound Transit 2 Line (East Link) through places where I grew up. Amazing to see the changes.

I want similar expansion of options for greater Baltimore.

Thanks, Jerome!

I commute on MARC into Penn Station Baltimore. Today was the first time I’ve arrived at the new platform. Nice upgrade to this gateway to the city.

Cash-strapped Maryland revives plan for trains to Virginia and Delaware The long-delayed rail plan would also include more frequent train service between D.C. and Baltimore.

“That’s a choice. We could choose to implement the MARC plan.”

The 4-year spending programs for the Washington & Baltimore regions include >40 road and highway expansion projects (widening costs more than just resurfacing). MDOT is widening I81 and US15.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Catch me if you can

I’m excited to see how the new routes perform, but part of me is sad to say goodbye to the L8 bus, the H8 bus, and the D8 bus. I laughed every time I saw them.

Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent' NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

It was a joy to watch him in the FIFA Club World Cup

20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…

Study on London 20 mph limits shows:
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%

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OSS 117, urban planner extraordinaire.
Based on the famous quote by @brenttoderian.bsky.social

Elon Musk’s Boring Company removes D.C.-Baltimore tunnel from list of projects on website The company hasn’t indicated to the Federal Highway Administration that it plans to move forward with the project after drafting an environmental assessment.

What's interesting is that in 2019, Boring Co submitted plans to build a 35-mile underground loop between Baltimore and DC, claiming the project would be done in two years. Nothing of note was ever built and the co removed the project from its site in 2021: www.washingtonpost.com/local/traffi...

Image of the edited title page of the book manuscript for the Escapes of David George, by Gregory E. O'Malley, forthcoming with St. Martin's Press.

Sent my review of the copy-edited manuscript back to the publisher late last night!
This is starting to feel real. Due out in February!
#slavery #bskystorians

Paddle to the Sea Based on Holling C. Holling's book of the same name, Paddle to the Sea is Bill Mason's film adaptation of the classic tale of an Indigenous boy who …

April 16 was National Canadian Film Day. My daughter chose Turning Red to watch together. I chose this. We used to beg our elementary school teachers to let us watch it again on film strip. www.nfb.ca/film/paddle_...

Important legislation. Thank you House members. Let’s go Maryland Senate!

Rallying for #BetterTransitNow

Appreciate the opportunity to spend the afternoon in Annapolis advocating for transit. @mtamaryland.bsky.social is an economic driver for the State. The Administration's proposed budget gets the agency back to track to providing safe and reliable service.

Here’s a sign on the @mtamaryland.bsky.social Lime bus.

A sign on thus @wmata train asks riders to leave this seat reserved in honor of Rosa Parks on Transit Equity Day.

Giving buses relief from car and truck traffic can help agencies run more and better service under the same budget.

Great highlights (although I skipped when he started wearing pinstripes).

Two of my heroes

😆

There’s a lot of water falling on the second train from the front at Farragut North station. @wmata.com