Summary
William Donald Schaefer is a Democratic politician who served in public office for 50 years at both the state and local level in Maryland. He was mayor of Baltimore from 1971 to 1987, the 58th governor of Maryland from 1987 to 1995, and the comptroller of Maryland from 1999 to 2007. Schaefer was defeated in his reelection bid for comptroller by Peter Franchot, a state delegate, in the Democratic primary on Sept. 12, 2006. During his tenure, Schaefer won praise for his "do-it-now" approach. He tended to details such as fixing potholes and launched major development initiatives, including the transformation of Baltimore's Inner Harbor and the construction of Oriole Park at Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium....
William Donald Schaefer is a Democratic politician who served in public office for 50 years at both the state and local level in Maryland. He was mayor of Baltimore from 1971 to 1987, the 58th governor of Maryland from 1987 to 1995, and the comptroller of Maryland from 1999 to 2007. Schaefer was defeated in his reelection bid for comptroller by Peter Franchot, a state delegate, in the Democratic primary on Sept. 12, 2006. During his tenure, Schaefer won praise for his "do-it-now" approach. He tended to details such as fixing potholes and launched major development initiatives, including the transformation of Baltimore's Inner Harbor and the construction of Oriole Park at Camden Yards and M&T Bank Stadium. Schaefer's other notable achievements include reform of the state's higher education system and construction of a light rail line through Baltimore. Schaefer received his early education in Baltimore's public schools, and later graduated from Baltimore City College in 1939. Schaefer received a J.D. degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1942. Schaefer won a seat on the Baltimore City Council in 1955 campaigning on his concern for city planning and housing issues. He represented the 5th District. Schaefer had a long-time companion in Hilda Mae Snoops, who was his official hostess in the governor's mansion. Snoops died in 1999 at age 74.
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Fake forest hides in plain sight
Sun reporterBraking at the intersection of North Avenue and St. Paul Street, drivers breathe cigarette smoke out their windows, slosh takeout sodas, stare at their nails. No one notices that a cluster of pointy trees has sprouted in the median. No one notices that a...Tags: Sculpture, Artscape, Mount Vernon, Patterson Park, Station North
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Karen Naomi Connolly-Lawless
Sun reporterKaren Naomi Connolly-Lawless, who helped run the former Connolly's Seafood, her family's restaurant and a Baltimore institution for 87 years, died Wednesday at home of lung cancer. She was 61 and lived in Westminster. Born in Baltimore the only child...Tags: Religious Festivals, Death and Dying, Regional Authority, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Sales
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Letters to the editor
Thanks so much for the editorial on Sen. John McCain's indifference toward the Internet ("Net deficit," editorial, June 29). It's chilling to think we might have a president who lacks the capacity to perform vital Web-related duties such as chatting up...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Constitutional Issues, Weather Reports, Conservation, Barack Obama
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Scandal distracts from Dixon's work
Finally we have a mayor who loves the city and her job as much as former Mayor Clarence "Du" Burns did and, before him, William Donald Schaefer once did - one who gets things done and is out there involving herself in the city. Then what happens? A...Tags: Sheila Dixon, Regional Authority
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Inquiry threatens Dixon's momentum
Sun reportersSix months into her historic term as Baltimore's first female mayor, Sheila Dixon has been riding high - the homicide rate is at a two-decade low, the City Council passed her budget almost untouched, and she has won praise for her work on gun control...Tags: Court Preliminary, Personal Weapon Control, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Sheila Dixon
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Hospitals' acreage is lure for developers
Sun reporterChicken coops and cornfields surrounded the state asylum in Owings Mills when it opened almost 120 years ago. The quiet countryside was considered by 19th-century health experts as the best place to care for the developmentally disabled, and over the...Tags: Government, Martin O'Malley, Regional Authority, Real Estate Buyers, Colleges and Universities
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Visionary leader merits more respect
It is disgraceful that The Sun invaded former Gov. William Donald Schaefer's privacy by revealing the vulnerabilities of his advancing age, with a picture of him that again shows him at less than his usual dapper self ("The object of their affections,"... -
Schaefer's friends right to intervene
In October 2007, I saw former Gov. William Donald Schaefer give a talk about his career at the Pikesville library. He was in good form, but it was also clear that his age was showing. He was far from the "do it now" mayor I knew from his days at City Hall...Tags: Pikesville
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Report invaded Schaefer's privacy
I was saddened and angered by the article in Saturday's paper by Laura Vozzella about former Gov. Donald Schaefer's forced move to the Charlestown Retirement Community ("Schaefer moves, reluctantly," April 26). Did the story have to be told in such an...Tags: Retirement, Government, Reisterstown, Executive Branch
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