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Mayor calls for trash pickup fee, 10 percent cut in city workforce
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called Monday for "bold reforms" to fix a looming financial shortfall, including requiring more city workers to contribute to their retirement fund, charging residents for trash collection, asking firefighters to work longer...
Tags: Douglas F. Gansler, Public Employees, Executive Branch, 401K, Taxation
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Del. Hattie Harrison fondly remembered at funeral service
Family, friends and a host of elected officials celebrated the life of East Baltimore Del. Hattie N. Harrison at the West Baltimore United House of Prayer for All People, in a ceremony borne on the spirited rasps of trombones and rhythmic clattering of...
Tags: Regional Authority, Bernard C. Young, Executive Branch, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Maryland State Police
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Hattie Harrison, longest-serving Md. delegate
Hattie Harrison, the matriarch of East Baltimore politics who often greeted colleagues as "Baby" and was known for her signature curled hair and Southern cooking, will be remembered at a funeral at noon Feb. 9. Mrs. Harrison died of heart disease...
Tags: Elections, Bernard C. Young, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Barbara A. Mikulski, Hospitals and Clinics
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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: Credit and Debt, Bernard C. Young, Tax Credits, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Downtown Partnership of Baltimore
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Support grows for city zoning plan to reduce liquor stores
A proposed zoning rule that would reduce the number of liquor outlets in Baltimore is garnering increased support among community members who believe it will make neighborhoods healthier and safer. The zoning change, part of the city's first zoning...
Tags: Douglas F. Gansler, Bars and Clubs, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Fells Point, Sharon Green Middleton
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Officials, activists rally against violence targeted at gays
Activists, public officials and residents gathered Saturday outside an east Baltimore liquor store — where a man was severely beaten on Christmas Day — to protest violent attacks on gay people Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts...
Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Civil Rights, NAACP, Same-Sex Marriage, Hate Crimes
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City parks agency turns over books for auditing
It's taken about three years of wrangling, but Baltimore's Department of Recreation and Parks has finally turned over a year of its financial books to city auditors. "I'm not jumping up and down yet," Councilman Carl Stokes, who chairs the council's...Tags: Accounting and Auditing, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Druid Hill, Interior Policy, Housing and Urban Planning
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Baltimore's 2012 homicide victims remembered at New Year's Eve vigil
For minutes on end New Year's Eve night, the names and ages of 216 men, women and children who were killed in Baltimore in 2012 were read out loud on the steps of the city's War Memorial — a somber recap of a violent year in which homicides rose....
Tags: Anthony W. Batts, Bernard C. Young, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Hospitals and Clinics
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Tuesday
Baltimore Sun reporterWEATHER The National Weather Service is calling for Tuesday mostly sunny in the Baltimore area, with a high near 94 and south winds around 6 miles per hour. Forecasters warn that isolated thunderstorms are possible Tuesday afternoon and evening and...Tags: Credit and Debt, Renewable Energy, Perry Hall, Baltimore Orioles, Maryland State Police
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Ducking scrutiny
Baltimore's City Council this week voted down a proposed charter amendment that would have required that each city agency be audited every two years. And no wonder; such a proposal may be unprecedented in Maryland. A review of the charters of Anne...
Tags: Accounting and Auditing, Property Tax, Property
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City Council approves tax breaks for 'Superblock' project
The Baltimore City Council on Monday granted preliminary approval to more than $20 million in tax breaks for the long-stalled "Superblock" development. The council's unanimous vote provides for $22.1 million in tax breaks to the developer, Lexington...
Tags: Baltimore Development Corporation, Banking
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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: Elections, Bernard C. Young, Peter G. Angelos, Justice System, Trials
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