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Sheila Dixon is the 48th mayor of Baltimore and a former member of the Baltimore City Council. She is the first African-American female to serve as the council's president and the city's first female mayor. Dixon won the Democratic mayoral primary in 2007, prevailing over her main challenger, City Councilman Keiffer J. Mitchell Jr., with 63% of the vote. She easily defeated Republican Elbert Henderson in the general election. Dixon attended Baltimore City public schools and is a graduate of Northwestern High School. She holds a bachelor's degre...
Sheila Dixon is the 48th mayor of Baltimore and a former member of the Baltimore City Council. She is the first African-American female to serve as the council's president and the city's first female mayor. Dixon won the Democratic mayoral primary in 2007, prevailing over her main challenger, City Councilman Keiffer J. Mitchell Jr., with 63% of the vote. She easily defeated Republican Elbert Henderson in the general election. Dixon attended Baltimore City public schools and is a graduate of Northwestern High School. She holds a bachelor's degree from Towson University and a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University. She began her career as a kindergarten teacher at Steuart Hill Elementary School and as an adult education instructor with the Head Start program. Dixon worked for 17 years as an international trade specialist with the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development. In 1986, she was elected to the Baltimore City State Central Committee representing the 40th Legislative District. In 1987, she won a seat on the Baltimore City Council representing the 4th Council District, where she served for 12 years. She became City Council president in 1999. Twice divorced, Dixon is a single mom raising her two children, Jasmine and Joshua. She is the aunt of professional basketball player Juan Dixon.
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Patterson Park adorned as part of environmental art
Sun reporterWhen a local art student erected a golden chain-link fence around Mount Vernon Place earlier this spring, downtown residents who normally enjoy free access to their favorite neighborhood park reacted with outrage. Southeast Baltimoreans will encounter...Tags: Central Park, Mount Vernon Place, Patterson Park, Christmas
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Lithuanian Fans Still Rocking With Frank Zappa
Associated PressFrank Zappa, who sang about "Plastic People," has been cast in bronze. Again. In 1995, a quirky bunch of Lithuanian artists and intellectuals managed to erect a bust of the eccentric rocker in downtown Vilnius, the capital of the former Soviet republic....Tags: Sculpture, Death and Dying, Regional Authority, Frank Zappa
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Council weighs bill on homes
Sun reporterMembers of a Baltimore City Council committee grilled officials in Mayor Sheila Dixon's administration at a hearing last night over a bill that would permit more live-in drug treatment centers to open in residential neighborhoods. The proposal - which...Tags: Civil Laws, Interior Policy, Health Treatments, Housing and Urban Planning, Laws
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Dixon attends New York forum
Mayor Sheila Dixon attended a public health forum in New York yesterday, where she and other elected officials discussed ways to reduce teen pregnancies and protect residents from sexually transmitted infections. The event, sponsored by the National...Tags: Public Officials, Elections, Local Elections, Government, Reproduction
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Bust of Frank Zappa to be erected in city
Sun reporter"What's new in Baltimore?" Frank Zappa used to sing at the end of a long, characteristically off-the-wall rock jam he called Clowns on Velvet. What's new in Baltimore, the city in which the late rock star was born in 1940, is evidently a public sculpture...Tags: Sculpture, Regional Authority, Death and Dying, Frank Zappa, John Waters
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Middle school scene of attack
Sun ReportersA staff member at Calverton Elementary/Middle was putting in extra hours at the West Baltimore school Sunday afternoon when two 13-year-old boys broke into the building and one tried to rape her, police confirmed yesterday. Realizing that her attacker...Tags: People, Injuries, Government, National Government, Law Enforcement
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Seeds of renewal in Oliver
Sun reporterA crowd gathered yesterday afternoon on the crumbling steps of a boarded-up rowhouse in East Baltimore. Their attention focused across the street, where construction workers using an 80-foot crane were assembling the first new houses in the Oliver...Tags: Demonstration, Homes, Employees, Drug Trafficking, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Nerve center aims to soothe traffic
Sun reporterThe crawl up Charles and the slog back down St. Paul could become a little more bearable thanks to a new high-tech traffic management center that will give Baltimore greater control over its stoplights. About 1,000 of the city's 1,300 signals are already...Tags: Photography, Government, Major League Baseball, National Government, Transportation
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City traffic signal center officially opens
Sun reporterThe crawl up Charles and the slog back down St. Paul could become a little more bearable thanks to a new high-tech traffic management center that will give Baltimore greater control over its stoplights. About 1,000 of the city's 1,300 signals are...Tags: Government, Elijah E Cummings
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Jews' past pain, future hope examined
Sun reporterAlan M. Dershowitz, a Harvard Law professor and one of the nation's leading commentators on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, told about 1,800 people last night at a program commemorating the Holocaust and celebrating the 60th anniversary of Israel's...Tags: Massacres, Ceremonies, Civil Unrest, Religious Conflicts, Judaism
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