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City Council approves shrunken enterprise zone
The Baltimore City Council on Monday approved a new map for the city's enterprise zone that significantly realigns and diminishes its footprint, from 22,000 acres to 14,000 acres. The zone is designed to support investment in and improvement of...Tags: Carl Stokes, Baltimore Development Corporation, Business, Harbor East
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City Council members switching up taxpayer-funded vehicles
It takes a lot of cars and trucks to run a town like Baltimore, and the city government boasts a fleet consisting of more than 3,600 vehicles, many sporting the familiar black-and-yellow municipal seal. A spreadsheet containing the data is available...
Tags: Local Government, Edward L. Reisinger III
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Next city police commissioner faces challenging benchmark
However Baltimore's plain-spoken police commissioner is remembered, when he departs on the first day of August, he will leave his successor a challenging target. The number 200. That is the standard by which Frederick H. Bealefeld III's successor will...Tags: Litigation, Maryland State Police, Trials, Heroin, Shootings
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Read twice before hitting "send"
The Baltimore SunAll of us have let that message with an error in it get away from us. All of us have submitted texts bearing typos or the wrong homonym. All of who edit have overlooked gross blunders or, worse, inserted them in someone else's text. All of us are fallible... -
Mayor invites family, donors, business allies to skybox
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's guests in the city's private skybox at Ravens games this past season included a small circle of city employees, prominent business leaders, donors to her campaign, and several family members, documents show.
City...Tags: Customs and Tradition, Auto Racing, Christmas, Walmart, Ken Strong
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Md. lawmaker to try to ban 'sweepstakes' game rooms
A Maryland legislator said he plans to introduce a bill in the General Assembly that would outlaw video game rooms that offer cash prizes for playing a "sweepstakes," saying such operations could effectively put "slots on every corner." Del. Eric G....Tags: Lawyers, Gambling, Misdemeanors, Judges, Justice System
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'Sweepstakes' game rooms raise legal, tax questions
Lillie Chappell was up about $50, then down about the same, and was into her third hour playing a video game — pressing a button on the computer screen and watching tumbling four-leaf clovers, bars, horseshoes, numeral sevens. Compared with slot...Tags: Lawyers, Jeff Kelly, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Judges
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When should Baltimoreans vote? Once again, officials battle over proposals for change
City and state leaders and voting rights advocates agree on this: After last year's abysmal voter turnout, Baltimore's odd election cycle should be changed to lure more people to the polls and save millions of dollars. But a fierce battle is brewing over...Tags: Civil Rights, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Justice and Rights, U.S. Senate
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City Council president says he'll pay back Ray Lewis for tickets to private skybox
City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young promised Wednesday to pay Ray Lewis for tickets to the Ravens linebacker's private skybox at Sunday's sold-out playoff game, saying he wanted to follow an ethics law the City Council approved just four months...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Judges, Justice System, Ray Lewis, Local Government
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Council president urges mayor to end Grand Prix
City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young is urging Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to abandon the troubled Baltimore Grand Prix and focus on "core issues that impact the quality of life for all Baltimoreans."
In an op-ed article submitted to The...Tags: Rochelle Spector, Maryland General Assembly, Inner Harbor, Baltimore Grand Prix, Labor Legislation
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Sun should spotlight Green Party candidates
As usual, The Sun does a grave disservice to its readers and Baltimore City voters by refusing to acknowledge that there are Green Party candidates running in the general election. No mention is made of Doug Armstrong, running for City Council in the 14th... -
Voters to decide on Baltimore schools fund, council age
Voters who cast ballots in Tuesday's general election will have a chance to weigh in on two issues concerning the city's younger residents. One of the charter amendments would put aside money for repairing and building schools, an initiative inspired...Tags: Mary Pat Clarke, Primaries, Bernard C. Young, American Civil Liberties Union, Local Elections
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