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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 has recently been the focus of an investigation into spending irregularities at City Hall. The probe, which dates to 2006, has examined possible gifts to the mayor from people doing business with the city and her votes on contracts as City Council presiden...
Dixon has recently been the focus of an investigation into spending irregularities at City Hall. The probe, which dates to 2006, has examined possible gifts to the mayor from people doing business with the city and her votes on contracts as City Council presiden...
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 has recently been the focus of an investigation into spending irregularities at City Hall. The probe, which dates to 2006, has examined possible gifts to the mayor from people doing business with the city and her votes on contracts as City Council president that benefited her sister's employer. Dixon's former campaign chairman and the owner of a company that employed her sister have pleaded guilty on tax charges as part of the probe. A raid on the mayor's private residence by state prosecutors on June 17, 2008, marked a more aggressive shift in the investigation, which has included subpoenas issued to city offices and employees.
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.
Dixon has recently been the focus of an investigation into spending irregularities at City Hall. The probe, which dates to 2006, has examined possible gifts to the mayor from people doing business with the city and her votes on contracts as City Council president that benefited her sister's employer. Dixon's former campaign chairman and the owner of a company that employed her sister have pleaded guilty on tax charges as part of the probe. A raid on the mayor's private residence by state prosecutors on June 17, 2008, marked a more aggressive shift in the investigation, which has included subpoenas issued to city offices and employees.
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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They stoop to conquer
There's no need to scoot over. Baltimore's favorite stoop is about to get a lot more wiggle room.
Stoop Storytelling, the series in which local residents tell unscripted anecdotes about their lives, has been a hit since its debut performance in...Tags: Edgar Allan Poe, Mount Washington, Judy Garland, Garrison Keillor, Celebrity
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17-year-old arrested in the shooting of girl, 5
By a Baltimore Sun reporterPolice arrested a 17-year-old early Saturday and charged him with shooting a 5-year-old girl who was walking home with a relative after shopping at a neighborhood store. Lamont Davis will be charged as an adult with attempted murder, assault and reckless...Tags: Symptoms, People, Murder, University of Maryland Medical Center, Assault
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Girl, 5, critically wounded in city shooting is on ventilator
A 5-year-old girl was critically wounded Thursday afternoon, struck by a stray bullet fired by a young man who left a Southwest Baltimore street fight and returned with a gun, police said.
The girl was on a ventilator Friday morning at University of...Tags: Vehicles, Murder, CBS Corp., Carrollton, University of Maryland Medical Center
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Health Care for the Homeless officials give preview of their new Fallsway facility
With six months to go before moving into their new $15.5 million building on the Fallsway, Health Care for the Homeless officials gave Mayor Sheila Dixon a hard-hat tour Thursday.
The three-story building with a partial green roof is walking distance...Tags: Medical Services, National Government, Homelessness, Corporate Officers, Government
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City can proceed with Wells Fargo lawsuit
A federal judge on Thursday denied Wells Fargo's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Baltimore over what city officials said were racially discriminatory lending practices that led to a wave of foreclosures that cost the city millions. The courtroom...Tags: Employees, Trials, Lawyers, Mortgages, National Government
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Ex-official lists alleged abuses in Police Dept.
JoAnn C. Woodson-Branche said she came to the Baltimore Police Department to work on internal disciplinary cases and hold officers accountable. But the former official and career prosecutor said it quickly became apparent that the system was broken....Tags: Trials, Cherries, Punishment, Regional Authority, Racism
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Overdose deaths drop again
Deaths from alcohol and drug overdoses declined for the second straight year in Baltimore and are at their lowest level since 1995, when the city began recording the data, according to a Health Department report released today. In 2008, 176 people died...Tags: Drug Trafficking, OxyContin, Symptoms, Health Treatments, Behavioral Conditions
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Petition asks Dixon's removal from office
A Baltimore man petitioned Tuesday to have Mayor Sheila Dixon removed from office, arguing in court papers that Dixon "holds power unlawfully" because she was sworn into office by Gov. Martin O'Malley instead of by the city's clerk of the court.
The...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Executive Branch, Primaries, Regional Authority, Local Elections
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Baltimore still losing population
Baltimore Sun reporterBaltimore's population continues to drop, losing 3,231 people during the year that ended July 1, 2008, according to new census estimates released Wednesday. Except for a small uptick in 2006, the city's population has been on a half-century decline....Tags: Population and Census, Prince George's County, Demographics, Population
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Animal welfare, public safety are linked
Along with the Baltimore community, the ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) was deeply troubled and saddened to learn of the recent incident in the city involving a pit bull named Phoenix, who was doused in gasoline and set...Tags: Animals, Safety of Citizens, Symptoms, Government
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St. James' celebrates 185 years
Singing "We've Come This Far by Faith," members of St. James' Episcopal Church on Sunday celebrated its 185th anniversary, honoring the West Baltimore church's historic past and looking forward to its bicentennial.
"For 185 years, those who have gone...Tags: Christianity, Anglican, Ceremonies, St. James, Benjamin L. Cardin
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City Hall garden flourishes
The vegetable gardens planted around the city's War Memorial Plaza in front of City Hall have produced more than 1,500 pounds of vegetables for the kitchens of Our Daily Bread, which feeds the homeless. But perhaps just as important is this news: "The...Tags: Breads
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