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Public-private partnerships: the new model for infrastructure
There's a P3 in your future. Maryland is poised to join 34 states and key federal agencies in transforming the way government works. The new mantra, "P3," is shorthand for public-private partnerships. Maryland's P3 legislation, championed by Lt. Gov....
Tags: Barack Obama, Port of Baltimore, Budgets and Budgeting, Company Privatization, Executive Branch
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Thinking small: Compact, cheaper living in 'tiny houses'
Greg Cantori plans to downsize when he retires. Really, really downsize. His retirement home is 238 square feet — one-tenth the size of the average new American house — and sits in his Anne Arundel County yard. He and wife Renee can hitch it...
Tags: Homes, Baltimore County, Roland Park, Tameka Cottle
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Of cats, doors and happiness
The Baltimore Sun"Look," my husband said the first night we ate dinner in our new house. He had just herded Ben and Jerry, our two cats, into the basement. And now, he was closing the door. For the first time in a year, we would be able to eat dinner at home without a...Tags: Animals, The New York Times, The Happiest News!, Breads
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D.C. officer with Howard ties arrested in money-laundering case
A Washington, D.C., police officer was charged Tuesday with money laundering in connection with an alleged drug-trafficking scheme in the Pittsburgh and Baltimore areas. Federal authorities say more than $2 million in proceeds from cocaine was hidden....
Tags: Washington, DC, Pikesville, Lawyers, Prosecution, Howard County
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Carroll residents lobby for education, nonprofit funding
Carroll County residents lobbied the Board of County Commissioners Monday that additional funding in the fiscal year 2014 budget should be directed to Carroll County Public Schools and nonprofit organizations. "It is not acceptable for CCPS to just...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Lobbying, Sykesville, Public Schools, Schools
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Action in Maturity to mark 40th anniversary
Esther Bonnet, 100, is always thinking about new plans for Action in Maturity — as she has since she co-founded the transportation service for seniors more than 40 years ago. During a recent visit from Elizabeth Briscoe, AIM's executive director,...
Tags: Govans, Baltimore County, Union Memorial Hospital, Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Colleges and Universities
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Top mayoral aide got homestead tax breaks for rental property
A top aide to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake received more than $14,000 in homestead property tax breaks on an East Baltimore rental property he owns, records show, even though only owner-occupied homes qualify for the subsidy under Maryland law. State...
Tags: Patterson Park, Howard County, Taxation, Finance, Butchers Hill
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State shouldn't let landlords discriminate
As we recently celebrated the 45th anniversary of the federal Fair Housing Act, it is significant to note that the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metropolitan regions are among the most segregated in America. Last month, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil...
Tags: Washington, DC, Civil Rights, Minority Groups, Section 8 (housing), Maryland General Assembly
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Maryland makes minor lawbreakers pay twice
Have you ever just messed up? I'm not talking about leaving your coffee on the roof of your car. I mean a major, life-altering mistake. Think fiscal cliff-level personal disaster. Now imagine paying for the mistake with jail time — then continuing...
Tags: Criminals, Employment Opportunities, Employment, Health and Safety at Work, Misdemeanors
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Coping with non-owner-occupied homestead tax credit disease
The Sun recently reported that a third top City Hall employee had contracted the highly contagious "improper homestead tax credit on non-owner occupied homes" disease ("Mayoral aid got tax break for rental property," May 1). Khalil Zaied, Mayor...
Tags: Taxation, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Credit and Debt
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No longer vacant, Baltimore home is where couple's heart is
Jamila Ward and Lionel Jennings had been house hunting on and off for two years when their agent pointed the couple in a new direction: a formerly condemned property in a revitalized area of Baltimore. Some city neighborhoods, just years ago marked by...
Tags: Building Material, Property, Architecture, Hospitals and Clinics, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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