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Ethics committee recommends Currie be censured
The General Assembly's joint ethics committee has recommended unanimously that the Senate censure Sen. Ulysses Currie, once a powerful committee chairman, for failing to disclose that he was being paid to represent a grocery chain before state agencies....Tags: Energy Saving, Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, Witnesses, Baltimore County, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
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Jury selection begins in bribery trial of state Sen. Currie
Jury selection in the federal bribery and extortion trial of Maryland Sen. Ulysses Currie and two Shoppers Food Warehouse executives opened Monday with the judge reading aloud a who's who in state politics.
Gov. Martin O'Malley, Senate President Thomas...Tags: Lawyers, Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, Witnesses, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Robert L Flanagan
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Man on a mission
Sun StaffGeorge L. Russell Jr. was walking to his downtown Baltimore office last week when three men approached him. "Aren't you George Russell?" one asked. "Yes, I am," the 75-year-old attorney replied. "We want to thank you for giving back to the community."...Tags: Lawyers, Regional Authority, Minority Groups, Curricula, Companies and Corporations
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Case to show Md. political life
sun reporterA trial of former state Sen. Thomas L. Bromwell could pull some of the most influential leaders in Annapolis into a courtroom, focusing attention on how relationships between politicians and business leaders - often built through money and favors - can...Tags: Lawyers, Thomas L Bromwell, Bribery, Judges, Political Fundraising
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Ruling places focus on state for schools fix
Sun StaffDeeming the Baltimore school system's special-education program dysfunctional, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. hailed yesterday a federal judge's emergency order giving the state control over an area he vowed to turn around. Speaking on WBAL-AM's Stateline...Tags: Regional Authority, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Executive Branch, Finance, Judges
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'97 flaws evident in schools' '04 woes
Sun StaffThe flaws in the 1997 law that set up a city-state partnership to run Baltimore's schools might seem crystal-clear in 2004. Even authors of the legislation admit that the system's fiscal woes have exposed its unrealistic expectations and lack of fiscal...Tags: Lawyers, Regional Authority, Baltimore County, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Executive Branch
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Trustee suggested for city schools
Sun StaffState schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick suggested in a federal courtroom yesterday that a trustee should be appointed to run the Baltimore schools, a comment that drew immediate protest from a line of attorneys representing schoolchildren, advocacy...Tags: Bankruptcy, Lawyers, Regional Authority, Martin O'Malley, Judges
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$50 million pledged to fight lead poisoning
Sun StaffVowing to end the scourge of childhood lead poisoning in Maryland, Gov. Parris N. Glendening and Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley pledged yesterday to pour $50 million over the next three years into a major new effort to rid the city of dilapidated housing...Tags: Painting, Renovation, Environmental Politics, Regional Authority, Prosecution
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Officials betting Pimlico project gives city a boost
Sun StaffThough a Canadian company's plan to demolish Pimlico Race Course and rebuild it from the ground up is still sketchy, city and state officials are already betting the project will give Baltimore a boost and - for better or worse - help bring slot...Tags: Renovation, R. Kelly, Casino and Gambling, Finance, Gulfstream Park
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Md. officials seek to ensure Preakness returns to Pimlico
Sun StaffWith the prospective new owner planning to tear down and rebuild Pimlico Race Course, state racing commission officials and legislators are seeking ways to ensure that the Preakness returns to the landmark Northwest Baltimore track once the reconstruction...Tags: Lawyers, Magna Entertainment Corp., Equestrian, Reconstruction, Pimlico Race Course
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Crime office under probe grew rapidly
Sun StaffLt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend called it a "tiny little office" being picked on by an aggressive U.S. attorney. But the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention, which finds itself tangled in a federal investigation over at least one grant...Tags: Lawyers, Regional Authority, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Executive Branch, Public Officials
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Governor seeks tax-cut delay
Sun StaffAcknowledging that the national economic downturn has seeped into Maryland, Gov. Parris N. Glendening asked lawmakers yesterday to delay the final installment of a state income tax cut and spend a whopping $800 million in reserves to balance next year's...Tags: Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Drugs and Medicines, J Lowell Stoltzfus, Budgets and Budgeting
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