RG Steel, the company that runs the steel mill at Sparrows Point, is filing for bankruptcy. The plant is idle, and layoffs may be on the way. We’ll talk to a reporter and a union local president about the prospects for a new owner, and talk to people from the community about the toll of years of instability at Sparrows Point.
Lotfy Nathan is chronicling the lives of Baltimore’s “Twelve O’Clock Boyz,” the renegade dirt bikers who inspire some Baltimoreans and terrify others. He takes the final Maryland Morning Screen Test.
At some point in the next several weeks, the sale of Sparrows Point steel mill from RG Steel to a Chicago-based liquidator Hilco Industrial is expected to become final. The mill was sold at a bankruptcy auction for RG Steel last month.
Today we’re going to look at the future of steelmaking in Baltimore County. The Sparrows Point steel mill used to define Baltimore’s manufacturing economy. At its peak in 1959, what was then Bethlehem Steel employed over 30,000 workers, 
