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Baltimore Pride 2013 to feature mass wedding
In a year when Maryland's same-sex couples can, for the first time, legally marry, the organizers of Baltimore Pride 2013 decided some special celebrating was required. A landmark occasion, they reasoned, called for a landmark commemoration. So they...
Tags: Druid Hill, Family, The Happiest News!, Weddings, Same-Sex Marriage
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Rawlings-Blake questions Clinton on infrastructure
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake got a rare opportunity to throw a question at former President Bill Clinton, courtesy of Bloomberg Businessweek -- and she used it to ask how the nation can stimulate a "more serious, bipartisan" discussion on...
Tags: Government, Public Officials, John T. Chambers, Cisco Systems Inc., NRG Energy Incorporated
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Some at City Hall have fee fever and need to be stopped
This time, I'm with Santoni. That is to say, I agree with Bob Santoni, the outspoken owner of the Baltimore supermarket that bears his family's name, that some members of the brain trust running our fair city have stepped through the looking glass....
Tags: Finance, Petroleum Industry, Harbor East
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Baltimore shows off its manufacturing for visiting engineers
Men and women wearing hairnets, hard hats, safety glasses and bright-orange vests wended their way through Domino Sugars' Baltimore refinery Tuesday — there to look, not work. The manufacturing engineers and engineering students toured Domino as...
Tags: Heavy Engineering, Engineering, Barack Obama, NASA, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Council to consider ban on foam cups, carryout containers
Fed up with foam cups floating in Baltimore's waterways, a City Council committee voted Tuesday to approve a ban on polystyrene foam products for carryout food and drink items within the city limits. The measure, sponsored by Councilman James B. Kraft,...
Tags: Robert W. Curran, Bernard C. Young, James B. Kraft, Business, Sales
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Exelon wants to build it, with our help
On the day Exelon's gleaming new office tower opens on Harbor Point, I wonder if anyone will remind the company, "You didn't build that." Remember the hubbub during the 2012 campaign when President Barack Obama said that? His point was that successful...
Tags: Fells Point, Barack Obama, Carl Stokes, Elections, Baltimore Development Corporation
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City considering fee on shopping bags
Baltimore might impose a 10-cent fee on every plastic and paper bag distributed by merchants in the city — a move praised by environmentalists as a litter deterrent but decried by some businesses who say it would hurt them and their shoppers. City...
Tags: Bernard C. Young, Local Government, Petroleum Industry, Business, Baltimore Orioles
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Civilian police complaint unaddressed, teen criticizes oversight
An attorney for a teenager who said his jaw was broken in an encounter with Baltimore police dismissed the city's civilian review board as a "proxy" for police after nearly three years have passed without a ruling on the case. In July 2010, Yardell...
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Anthony W. Batts, Justice System, Racism, Lawyers
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Religious groups pushing for city stormwater fee reduction
The two Catholic parishes led by the Rev. Robert Wojtek could pay more than $6,000 in new city stormwater fees later this year — an amount equal to an entire Sunday collection at his Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Highlandtown. To Wojtek, that...
Tags: Highlandtown, Fells Point, Bernard C. Young, Carroll County (Maryland), Carl Stokes
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A better bag tax
Baltimore has a litter problem in general — trash of all kinds blows down streets, piles up in alleys and parks and clogs streams and the harbor. The company that makes trash-skimming boats uses videos of its products at work clearing massive...Tags: Potatoes, Inner Harbor, Business, Washington, DC, Consumers
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Red Line forum attracts businesses hungry for opportunity
For a construction industry starved for work during recent lean years, the prospect of getting a slice of the $2.6 billion Red Line light rail project was like a dinner bell. Nearly 400 people, from contractors and investment bankers to engineering firms...
Tags: Baltimore Convention Center, Heavy Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center , Public Transportation, Maryland Transit Administration
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Put people ahead of cars
Baltimore City is at a transportation crossroads. We can move in the direction of a safer, healthier, more sustainable and economical city — the direction in which dozens of cities across America are moving — or fall back on prioritizing...
Tags: Transportation, Cycling, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Passenger Cars, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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