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.
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Some local municipalities are getting proactive when it comes to setting heat policies. -
Baltimore City Council is set to hold hearings to examine work conditions at the Department of Public Works following the death of employee Ronald Silver ll on August 2, 2024. -
“This is not an anti-landlord bill. It’s an anti-slumlord bill.” -
The city has announced that they have hired an independent firm to audit policies at the Department of Public Works, particularly heat safety practices. -
The family has retained Thiru Vignarajah as their lawyer. They demand investigative hearings from City Hall and real-time updates into the cause of Silver’s death. -
The clock is ticking on the opportunity for the appeal. -
The standards apply to laborers working where the heat index is at 80 degrees. -
The city is distributing sandbags, opening parking garages and creating an emergency homeless shelter. -
Unions call for hearings into workplace conditions, additional health and safety training, as well as a full-time OIG investigator dedicated to DPW. -
The pause and training are a direct result of Ronald Silver II’s death, a solid waste worker who died on Friday while reportedly showing signs of heat stress.
