Sahana Jayaraman

ICE arrests tripled in Arizona last fiscal year as street operations surged - AZ Luminaria This story is published in partnership with CALÓ News, a nonprofit, community-centered newsroom uplifting Latinos in Arizona and California. Immigration arrests in Arizona more than tripled in Fiscal ...

Immigration enforcement in Arizona last year took a sharp upturn after the election of Donald Trump, with a boom in street level arrests

@raphaeldelaghetto.bsky.social and I take a look at the numbers

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Here’s where all 47 Maryland senators stand on redistricting Enough senators oppose redistricting that supporters can not get the 29 votes they need to approve new congressional maps, according to a Banner survey of all 47 senators.

NEW in @thebaltimorebanner.com: Maryland redistricting = not happening. @brendawintrode.bsky.social & @maddioneill.bsky.social have the receipts.
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Maryland sheriffs: Expect ICE ramp-up after state ban Speculation of ramped-up ICE activity in and around Baltimore has abounded for months. In Western Maryland, the Department of Homeland Security bought an 825,000-square-foot warehouse with plans to re...

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Just drank the very last sip of my 3 pm cup of tea — the slightly-cold sip with all the sugar that settled at the bottom. Feel like I suddenly sprouted wings.

Emily is the best sports data journalist working right now, and I have no doubt she will continue to do incredible things in whichever newsroom is lucky enough to hire her. I’ll deeply miss getting to work with such an amazing colleague (and fellow FPL fan!!!)

Baltimore’s remarkable decline in drug overdose deaths comes with new challenges Baltimore’s overdose crisis does not appear to be ebbing, but evolving, according to interviews with experts. A mix of other chemicals — often less immediately lethal but dangerous in other ways — has...

After years of devastating overdose deaths, Baltimore is finally seeing progress. But the crisis hasn't ended — it's changed.

by @alissazhu.bsky.social & @sahanajayaraman.bsky.social

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I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

We are so incredibly thrilled to receive this honor.

Working on this project was one of the highlights of my career and I could not be more grateful to @ire.org and my entire team.

Thank you to all my colleagues at @thebaltimorebanner.com and all of our readers and supporters.

Iced sidewalks, no buses: How Maryland School for the Blind finally reopened Reopening was complex for the Maryland School for the Blind in Northeast Baltimore, where over 200 students with visual disabilities, some of whom use wheelchairs or canes to get around, go to school.

Thought it was hard for your school to reopen after the storm? The state's only school serving blind students had to de-ice thousands of feet of sidewalk while stuck beholden to surrounding districts' closure decisions. Plus, they're not allowed to go virtual. www.thebanner.com/education/k-...

Pittsburgh deserves so much better than what the Block family has done to the P-G and the city.

The housing hustle igniting a foreclosure crisis in Baltimore The foreclosures could send neighborhoods spiraling and make Baltimore America’s next great housing crisis.

The players at the center of the crisis are out-of-towners — a group of investors from a small community in New York.

@halliemiller.bsky.social , Sahana Jayaraman and Giacomo Bologna on how Baltimore's problem could be the start of something larger.

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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.

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