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Church bell tower repairs signify change in Oliver neighborhood
A few weeks ago, I spent a few quiet minutes in Green Mount Cemetery, where its higher ground offers unexpected views of Baltimore. As I looked to the southeast, something curious caught my eye. What was going on in the nearby Oliver neighborhood? What...
Tags: Roland Park, Christianity, Port Deposit, Maryland Area Regional Commuter Rail, Ceremonies
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Johnston Square appears to be turning the corner
The banner at Greenmount Avenue and Preston Street proclaims the Lillian Jones Apartments are coming. For the past year, I've watched this building take shape in a neighborhood that needed all the help it could get. Come spring, new tenants will begin...
Tags: Lexington Market, Marketing, Shipbuilding, Amtrak, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Give mayor's tax plan a chance to work
Excuse me, but what are my fellow Baltimoreans complaining about? The mayor has proposed doing something to avoid an all-out collapse of the city's finances, and some citizens of Paradise-on-the-Patapsco are annoyed, confused or just so cranky and fed...
Tags: Arts, Patapsco, Taxation, Ray Lewis, Sculpture
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New buyer for development site in Remington
Seawall Development Corp., a force in Remington as a builder of affordable teacher housing and a rehabber of abandoned row houses, has signed a contract to purchase an 11-acre site where an ill-fated shopping center with a Wal-Mart store was planned....
Tags: Laws, Justice System, Walmart, Groceries, Property
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Mayor plans to raise bottle tax to pay for school construction
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will seek to raise the city's bottle tax from 2 cents to 5 cents as part of a plan to boost funding for school construction and repairs, her administration said Thursday.
The bottle tax money and other revenue would...Tags: Groceries, AFSCME, Finance, Andres Alonso, Beverage Industry
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Partnership brings affordable housing to North Avenue corridor
For years, the vacant Columbus School on a busy corner of East North Avenue appeared to be nothing more than a giant planter. Leafy tree branches stuck out over the top of the historic red-brick walls, making it seem like the school's only future...
Tags: Taxation, Personal Income, Credit and Debt, Coppin State University, Poverty
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Mayor easily defeats school principal Bundley, virtually gaining 2nd term
Martin O'Malley, the young mayor who urged Baltimore to believe in him and itself, easily defeated a high school principal in a Democratic primary yesterday that also gave a victory to City Council President Sheila Dixon and created some long- term lame...
Tags: Johnny Unitas, Christianity, Helen Holton, University of Baltimore, Catherine E. Pugh
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Clarke wins easily, though some voters seek to add 'new blood' to City Council
Mary Pat Clarke easily won renomination in the Democratic primary for City Council president last night, but two veteran 1st District councilmen were ousted as independent candidates swept to victory in East Baltimore.\r A third incumbent, 6th...
Tags: Locust Point, Belair-Edison, Racism, AIDS, Republican Party
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Greater Homewood sponsors 6th annual Neighborhood Institute
Samantha Armacost, 27, grew up a country girl in Hereford. "There's not even sidewalks where my parents live," said Armacost, nicknamed Sam. But she was always thrilled when her mother took her on the light rail to Baltimore City to see Orioles...
Tags: Roland Park, Arts, University of Baltimore, Media Industry, Bill Henry
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City Council approves bill allowing Ticketmaster's service fees
The City Council approved a bill Monday that would allow companies such as Ticketmaster to continue to charge unlimited fees in selling tickets to events in Baltimore. The 15-member council voted heavily in favor of the bill, which would exempt...Tags: Laws, Live Nation, Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Bill Henry, Jackson Browne
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Ticketmaster fees are a necessary evil
It's safe to say that Ticketmaster doesn't have many fans. The service, which handles ticket sales for venues large and small across the nation, charges fees on its transactions that seem to bear little relationship to either the cost of the tickets or...Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, World War II (1939-1945), Ticketmaster
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Committee votes to allow Ticketmaster fees
A City Council committee approved a bill Thursday that would allow companies such as Ticketmaster to continue to charge unlimited fees in selling tickets to events in Baltimore. The council's finance committee voted 3-1 in favor of the bill, which would...
Tags: Live Nation, Jackson Browne, Bill Henry, Ticketmaster, Voting
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