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Overcoming a racist past in Baltimore
February is Black History Month. Baltimore is celebrating it by commemorating the march of African-Americans toward full membership in the American family. Although I am a white man born and raised in the strictly segregated Baltimore of nearly eight...
Tags: Discrimination, Racism, African-American History Month, Minority Groups, Black History
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Mayor plans to introduce tax program for city apartments
As part of her push to increase Baltimore's population, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake plans to introduce legislation to the City Council next week that will provide generous tax breaks to builders of apartment buildings downtown and in six other...Tags: Bernard C. Young, Carl Stokes, Tax Credits, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Taxation
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O'Malley takes a bow
As Muhammad Ali once observed, "It's not bragging if you can back it up." Thus, even his most caustic critics will have to concede that Gov. Martin O'Malley's State of the State address may have been the most heavily footnoted piece of braggadocio in...
Tags: Government, Muhammad Ali, Interior Policy, Elections, Gun Control
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Warfield cottage nets state tax credits for renovation
A project to renovate a building in the Warfield Cultural and Commerce Center, in Sykesville, has been awarded $246,619 in state tax credits in Maryland's Sustainable Communities Tax Credit program. This week Gov. Martin O'Malley announced that five...Tags: Sykesville, Henry Powell, Tax Credits, Maryland Historical Trust, Taxation
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State budget has no tax increases, limited spending, leaders say
Gov. Martin O'Malley unveiled Wednesday a budget that is "on the verge" of closing a budget gap that once stood at $2 billion. The governor emphasized the more than 40,000 jobs he expected his $37 billion operating and $3.7 billion capital budget to...
Tags: Public Schools, Employees, Budgets and Budgeting, Schools, Thomas V. Mike Miller
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Harford County raises nearly $115 million in bond sales Tuesday
Harford County officials raised nearly $115 million through two bond sales Tuesday to finance new and existing capital projects and to refinance previous bond issues. Officials with the county's Department of the Treasury received eight bids from...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Budgets and Budgeting, Finance, Debt Market, Bonds
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Baltimore reshaping approach to aging water lines
Baltimore water officials have been dogged in the past year by a series of extremely public problems: widespread billing errors that required millions in refunds, massive water main breaks that closed downtown streets, and a collapsed stormwater culvert...
Tags: Class Conflict, Water Supply, Budgets and Budgeting, Environmental Politics, Overlea
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Fight cyber crime through information sharing
It's like a recurring bad dream. March: Hackers allegedly steal the credit card numbers from 1.5 million Visa and MasterCard customers by breaking into the computer systems of the company's payment processor in New York. The thieves stockpiled the stolen...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Viral Diseases and Infections, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Email, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011
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Public defender challenges Harford bail decisions
A public defender told a Harford County District Court judge Tuesday he believes the state is acting illegally by holding people without bond for misdemeanor charges. During bail review hearings in Bel Air, Thomas Bahr, an assistant public defender,...Tags: Prosecution, Drug Trafficking, Trials, Theft, Judges
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Harford senator offers tax credit plan for farmers affected by new state septic law
Northern Harford County Sen. Barry Glassman has introduced Senate Bill 427, which would allow farmers a method to recoup lost value in their land resulting from two recently enacted state environmental mandates. Glassman's bill attacks attempts to...
Tags: Harford County, Barry Glassman, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (tv program), Montgomery County (Maryland), Laws
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Obama's State of the Union address as prepared for delivery [Text]
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he...
Tags: Energy, Intel Corp., Teaching and Learning, Rentals, Church and State Relations
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