Kristen Mosbrucker
Digital news editor and producerKristen Mosbrucker is a digital news editor and producer for WYPR.
Mosbrucker is a native of New Jersey but grew up in a Pennsylvania mountain steel town.
Over the past decade, she has spent much of her career working as a news reporter and editor in Texas, Louisiana, and Arizona.
She's covered business on the Texas-Mexico border in deep South Texas for the McAllen Monitor, technology and the defense industry in San Antonio for American City Business Journals, and the petrochemical industry in Louisiana for The Advocate newspaper. Early in her career, she spearheaded hyperlocal community news coverage for Philadelphia’s NPR member station WHYY.
Before joining WYPR, she was the news editor of an independent weekly newspaper Phoenix New Times in Arizona. @k_mosbrucker
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Fleischmann's Vinegar Company Inc. is accused of polluting Jones Falls stream in Baltimore City as chemicals used to manufacture white vinegar were released into the waterway that eventually flows into the Chesapeake Bay. -
An industrial wastewater plant in Baltimore will process a significant amount of contaminated water from the Palestine, Ohio train derailment. Then the treated water would be released into the Back River plant system. -
The Maryland Department of the Environment announced a proposed civil penalty settlement with ABF Freight System, which operates a trucking hub near Bascom Creek in Howard County and seeks public comment about the proposed deal. -
As Maryland Democrats, including Gov. Wes Moore, mull ways to improve state contracting participation for small, women and minority-owned businesses, these bills could end up on the governor’s desk. -
Both Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski and Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott penned letters to the Maryland General Assembly asking for the state to change the date of the 2024 primary Election Day. -
Gov. Wes Moore appointed Lt. Col. Roland Butler as the new Maryland State Police superintendent.
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Gov. Wes Moore was inaugurated as Maryland's 63rd governor in mid-January and has since moved into the governor's mansion in Annapolis. -
Democratic Gov. Wes Moore's executive order requires that within 60 days, the Maryland Department of Transportation will report to the governor the number of firms certified as Minority Business Enterprises, broken down by jurisdiction, race, and gender. -
Baltimore City’s Board of Estimates approved the conduit deal with Baltimore Gas and Electric Wednesday morning despite some city council members asking for more time to evaluate the agreement. Two voting members did not attend the meeting in protest. -
The administrative complaint filed against the city, its Mayor Brandon Scott and Baltimore City Council alleges that leadership violated the federal Fair Housing Act.
