Blanchard on Baltimore

Better Buses, Better City: Baltimore’s Transit Future with Brian O’Malley (Central Maryland Transportation Alliance)

A great city gives people choices. Half of all trips in the U.S. are three miles or less, yet most are made by car. In this episode, Councilman Zac Blanchard sits down wi

On the Ballot: The Baby Bonus Fund and the Fight Against Child Poverty with Nate Golden (Maryland Child Alliance)

Across Maryland, about one in six kids lives in poverty. In Baltimore City, it’s closer to one in three. This November, city voters will decide on the Baby Bonus Fund, a

Who Really Controls Baltimore's Budget? with Bill Henry (Baltimore City Comptroller)

Baltimore City's budget is one of the most powerful — and least understood — documents in local government. In this episode, Councilman Zac Blanchard sits down with City

The Case for a Land Value Tax with Vanessa Beck (Baltimore Thrive)

What if Baltimore could lower property taxes on homeowners and small businesses while raising them on blighted, vacant, and speculator-held land, at no net cost to the ci

A Bill of Rights for Small Business with Tanner Mobley

When a small business gets pushed out by a bad landlord, it's not just one storefront that goes dark — it's a signal to the whole block that there's no future there. Zac

Market Center: Baltimore's Next Comeback Story? with Anne Winder & Lieanne Navarro

Home to the world-famous Lexington Market and a stretch of historic but largely vacant department stores, Market Center is one of downtown Baltimore's biggest opportuniti

Rashfield Park, Harborplace, and the Future of the Waterfront with Dan Taylor

There's a lot happening at the Inner Harbor right now, and Waterfront Partnership president Dan Taylor is right in the middle of it.  Zac talks with Dan about the upcomi

Join or Die: Why Community Might Save Us with Pete Davis

Zac sits down with his friend and new Baltimorean Pete Davis — co-creator of the Netflix documentary Join or Die — to talk about a question that shapes everything else in

Rehabbing Baltimore, One House at a Time with Victor Akinnagbe

Baltimore has cut its number of vacant, blighted properties from 16,000 to 11,500 in the last few years — and is on pace to get under 1,000 by the mid-2030s. Councilman Z

Welcome to Blanchard on Baltimore

Introducing Blanchard on Baltimore: District 11 Councilman Zac Blanchard sits down with the people shaping city government to explore what's working, what isn't, and why.