The Baltimore Port’s recovery a year after bridge collapse

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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A year ago this morning, Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after being hit by a container ship. Six construction workers died, a crucial highway link was destroyed, and shipping at the Port of Baltimore was disrupted for weeks. How have businesses in and around the Port been faring? Plus, Napster may turn into an immersive metaverse for music, and job applications from current and former federal employees are up 50%.

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0:28.9	1999 runs into 2025 in the form of Napster.
0:33.8	I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.
0:35.9	Napster seemed like a great idea at the time with 80 million users until it became clear that the free downloaded songs were illegal.
0:42.7	The company was sued out of existence, then resurrected, and now a virtual reality startup wants to turn Napster into an immersive metaverse for music.
0:52.0	Here's Marketplace's Novo Sappho.
0:54.4	Napster took off in
0:55.4	1999 when Ricky Martin
0:57.0	was living
0:57.9	La Vida Loca.
1:01.0	And by the time
1:02.0	it was resurrected
1:02.7	as a legit
1:03.7	music streaming service
1:04.9	in 2011,
1:06.2	Adele was singing
1:06.9	about her broken heart.
1:11.9	But Napster, bought by Rhapsody, never really took off as a streaming service.
1:16.3	For example, it claims to have paid out only $1 billion in artist royalties so far.
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