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Pratt, Rawlings-Blake continue phone dispute
Baltimore Comptroller Joan M. Pratt and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake continued to spar Monday over the purchase of phone-related equipment by the mayor's technology office, purchases Pratt says violate city procurement regulations. Pratt, who has...
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Rawlings-Blake challenged by council, comptroller
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake came under fire on two fronts Monday as the City Council sliced $6 million from her proposed budget and the city comptroller renewed allegations that the mayor's staff improperly purchased more than $650,000 in...Tags: Finance, Lobbying, Local Government, Sheila Dixon, Technology
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Administration relies on consultants from Digicon
More than two dozen people working as consultants in the Mayor's Office of Information Technology are employees of Rockville-based Digicon Corp. — the company from which the office bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of phone-related equipment...Tags: Local Government, Companies and Corporations, Technology, Elections, Employees
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City comptroller uses jumbo check to represent wasteful city phone spending
The Baltimore SunBaltimore Comptroller Joan M. Pratt brought a jumbo check to the city's Board of Estimates meeting Wednesday to represent the $400,000 she says the city is wasting per month on its outdated, expensive phone system. "We are losing $400,000 a month...Tags: Local Government, Technology, George Nilson, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Pratt takes bad situation and makes it worse
For those keeping score at home, Baltimore Comptroller Joan Pratt appears to have slipped into the lead in the contest for who is most at fault for the continuing debacle that is the Baltimore City government's inability to modernize its phone system....Tags: Local Government, Peter G. Angelos, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Judges, Lawyers
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Angelos firm handling Pratt's lawsuit against mayor over phone purchases
The law firm of prominent lawyer and Orioles owner Peter G. Angelos is handling without charge Baltimore Comptroller Joan M. Pratt's lawsuit against the Rawlings-Blake administration's efforts to install a new city phone system that Pratt says illegally...
Tags: Litigation, Local Government, Peter G. Angelos, Technology, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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City comptroller sues over phone system dispute
Baltimore Comptroller Joan M. Pratt filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to stop Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's technology office from installing a new phone system, alleging the administration used an "underhanded, illegal technique" to bypass the...
Tags: Litigation, Local Government, Peter G. Angelos, Technology, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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City Hall disconnect
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blakeand her allies on the city's Board of Estimates today voted down a $7.4 million contract with IBM for switching city offices to voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) phones because she believes there needs to be...
Tags: Public Officials, Local Government, Technology, George Nilson, Government
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Pratt goes too far
Every day that passes without the Baltimore City government installing a Voice over Internet Protocol phone system, the taxpayers waste thousands of dollars. About this fact there is no dispute. The city's old phone system is wasteful and inefficient, and...
Tags: Trials, Local Government, Peter G. Angelos, Technology, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Baltimore City solicitor: Phone equipment purchases were legal
Baltimore's city solicitor defended Friday the purchase of high-tech phones and other equipment by MayorStephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration — an expense that has been questioned by another top City Hall official. George A. Nilson said the...Tags: Technology
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Howard families look to backyard chickens for eggs, companionship
The Gallaghers still miss Betty White and wistfully recall how much the Silkie loved to be held.
The hen, who was named after the 90-year-old celebrity because she was "ditsy and really out there" like many of the actress' TV characters, was killed by...Tags: Betty White, Howard Community College
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Helping businesses defend against cyber threats
Analysts with the National Security Agency see the threats coming at corporate America: viruses, worms and other malware targeting the computer networks that serve the nation's banks, utilities and businesses.
But the 64-year-old law that established the...Tags: Unions, Computer Crime, WikiLeaks, Small Businesses, Symantec Corp.
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