Emily Hofstaedter
General Assignment ReporterEmily is a general assignment news reporter for WYPR.
Emily began her journalism radio career nestled out on the tundra and on the shores of the sea ice in Nome, Alaska. Out there she covered everything from dog sled racing (mushing), climate change and Indigenous sovereignty. The work she did with her news team covering mishandled sexual assaults has won awards from the Alaska Press Club and led to an update in the Alaska consent statute.
In Alaska she met her now husband, and the two of them ended up in America’s Greatest City! She then spent a year working as a Ben Bagdikian Fellow for Mother Jones magazine doing research and fact-checking while she reported on issues ranging from labor politics, environmental justice and religion.
Emily originally hails from just up the Susquehanna River in Lancaster, PA and so the Chesapeake watershed has always been her home. When she isn’t reporting you might catch her performing with a local theatre troupe, writing poetry or hiking Maryland’s glorious range of trails.
Send her news tips at [email protected] or on Twitter @ehofstaedter!
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Released early Wednesday morning, Mayor Brandon Scott’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2026 tries to close an $85M budget gap without cutting services. -
Mayor Brandon Scott’s administration proposed a $3.6B operating budget on Wednesday morning. -
The family wants more investigatory materials and another public hearing. -
DPW is still finalizing the implementation of a heat standard. -
About half of the club’s approximately thirty members have gone back to their home countries, fearing detainment by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Sajche estimates. -
Solid waste laborers in the Baltimore City Department of Public Works get 15 cents an hour for hazard pay. -
Immigrants and their lawyers have reported spending days in windowless, overcrowded holding cells without food or beds. -
Half a dozen local immigration lawyers and one former detainee spoke with WYPR about the conditions at the facility. -
The bill proposal was done in collaboration with advocacy coalition With Us For Us. -
The state labor department found that on August 2nd, workers like Ronald Silver II were subject to direct sunlight with a heat index of 108 degrees.
