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Larry Hogan named Chris Shank to be his chief legislative officer.

Two dozen residents of public housing in Baltimore confronted embattled Commissioner Paul Graziano Thursday over maintenance problems at the aging complexes.

Dwight Whitley is better than this.

The plan in Park Heights recalls the clear-and-rebuild urban renewal efforts of the 1960s and 1970s. In scale and strategy, it also is similar to the city's large, ongoing redevelopment projects in East Baltimore and Poppleton, but those were fueled by the expectation that powerful, growing university research hospitals would drive demand for new buildings. In Park Heights officials must figure out how to induce change without that kind of economic engine.

The plan in Park Heights recalls the clear-and-rebuild urban renewal efforts of the 1960s and 1970s. In scale and strategy, it also is similar to the city's large, ongoing redevelopment projects in East Baltimore and Poppleton, but those were fueled by the expectation that powerful, growing university research hospitals would drive demand for new buildings. In Park Heights officials must figure out how to induce change without that kind of economic engine.

Nearly 50 city businesses in commercial districts affected by last year's unrest that will each receive up to $10,000 in storefront improvements from the state Department of Housing and Community Development. Under the new $650,000 effort, trainees in workforce development programs will be paid to install new windows, signs and awnings, freshen exterior paint, improve porches and tackle carpentry projects.

Thomas Donaldson, who during his lifetime had various careers as an educator, government administrator and sailing enthusiast, died May 8 from complications of dementia at the Stoddard Baptist Nursing Home in Washington. He was 94.

A Baltimore Circuit Court judge dismissed a defamation case Wednesday against women who alleged maintenance workers at public housing units demanded sex before making repairs, according to the women's attorney.

More than 100 local organizations were awarded grants Saturday for events through a program hosted by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore Office of Promotion.

Gov. Larry Hogan plans to sign legislation Tuesday that would launch a program under which ninth-grade students could obtain a high school diploma and associate's degree in six years, and be on track to land a high-tech job.

On March 28, when 900 N. Payson St. fell on Thomas Lemmon, a 69-year-old retired truck driver in his prized Cadillac, it was one more tragic reminder of the

The city has reached agreements with Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank's real estate firm about affordable housing, local hiring, and minority and woman-owned business participation, in his proposed multi-billion dollar redevelopment of the large swath of land he owns in South Baltimore.

The Maryland Economic Development Corp. and two local financial advisory firms raising a $50 million fund for real estate projects in parts of the city and state with high poverty and unemployment.

The Community Preservation and Development Corporation and the Housing Authority of Baltimore City held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday to celebrate $11 million in renovations to the Hollins House affordable apartment complex in Southwest Baltimore.

City housing officials should find a way to work with the youthful activists who are rehabbing a vacant house in Sandtown-Winchester

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A coalition of activists has claimed a vacant red brick rowhouse at the site of Freddie Gray's arrest, though the city has marked the home for demolition and says it's not theirs to use.

Harford County government went over its snow removal budget this fiscal year by $776,000, most of that attributable to the blizzard from Winter Storm Jonas that dumped more than 30 inches of snow on the county over two days Jan. 22-23.

The housing lottery has been sending lucky men and women to la-la land for the past 20 years. Four times a year, the lottery offers at least one house at below-market rates to moderate-income families and individuals. Once a year for the past 10, the lottery goes public as the finale of the annual Howard County Housing Fair, which this year will be held April 9.

More than 500 decrepit vacant houses in Baltimore are considered at such risk of collapsing that city inspectors examine them every 10 days.

Rape is most often talked about as a problem that lies in a set of bad individuals; a problem that we can solve by just addressing — i.e. punishing — the rapist. Yet, rates of sexual and domestic violence are dramatically affected by public policies, cultural norms and systems of inequity. Institutions including universities, prisons, police departments and Baltimore's own Department of Housing create environments where rape and abuse thrive and where survivors have little to no

Wind warnings are in place on bridges around Maryland, and some residents in the Baltimore region are without power Sunday morning after storms blew — loudly — through the mid-Atlantic overnight.

Baltimore firefighters responded to four building collapses Sunday, but it is unclear if bad weather weakened the structures.

The four candidates for mayor on stage at the Saints Philip and James Catholic Church basement Saturday afternoon could agree on a few things: a desperate need for more affordable housing in the city, for the revitalization of the most neglected neighborhoods and the demolition of 31,000 vacant homes.

Former Mayor Sheila Dixon, a leading candidate for mayor, released her housing platform Tuesday.

Baltimore City officials are seeking a master developer to revitalize the Park Heights community.

Baltimore needs to split Paul Graziano's job in half.

In a 4-1 vote on Monday, the Howard County Council struck down a measure to eliminate the county's controversial stormwater remediation fee, dubbed the "rain tax" by opponents.

Two former Baltimore Housing Authority maintenance workers who were fired for allegedly demanding that public housing tenants perform sexual acts before they would make repairs are suing 17 women for defamation.

Nydetra Rogers scanned outside her new home where kids were running, and across the street where she could see Archbishop Curley High School lacrosse players scrimmaging during a Saturday morning practice.

Baltimore auditors say city Housing Commissioner Paul T. Graziano has yet to resolve $5.8 million of $6.2 million in questionable payments of federal grants meant to help poor families with their energy bills.

While families complain of cold apartments, the Housing Authority of Baltimore City is suing for more than $10 million a Virginia contractor and Baltimore subcontractor that replaced the Gilmor Homes heating system.

Voters will be asked to choose among six sitting judges, an outgoing councilman and a public defender to rule on cases involving homicides, lead paint poisonings, divorces, medical malpractice and a variety of other issues in Baltimore Circuit Court.

Baltimore mayoral candidate and City Councilman Nick J. Mosby released a wide-ranging housing plan Thursday with a strategy for combating lead paint, rapidly rehousing homeless and replacing the housing commissioner.

The most effective approach to Baltimore's redevelopment is NOT to redevelop everything, but rather to create market dynamics that encourage everything to be redeveloped. This is sound public policy that recognizes the limitations of public funding and that the problem of urban disinvestment is many times greater than the public funding available to combat it in Baltimore and across the nation.

A fledgling women's rights group that used mobile billboards, an online petition and Facebook advertisements to push for the ouster of Baltimore Housing Commissioner Paul T. Graziano said Friday it plans to continue the campaign, which grew from a sex-for-repairs scheme at public housing complexes.

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan on Wednesday said he plans to propose legislation that would grant tax credits for donating to schools and make it cheaper for some people with student loans to buy certain homes.

Even as politicians and community leaders prepare to celebrate the opening of a new, four-story building of affordable apartments in the 2600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue — just blocks away from the intersection that became infamous last April as the epicenter of the riot — the developer worries such projects will become harder to do in the future.

The governor's ballyhooed $700 million plan to revitalize the city turns out to be much less than meets the eye.

Power and heat were restored Sunday afternoon to 80 units in South Baltimore's Westport public housing complex that had gone without service for about 24 hours, officials said.

Maryland Senate candidate Donna F. Edwards called Thursday for Baltimor'¿s housing commissioner to resign following a sex-for-repairs scandal in public housing -- injecting a charged city issue into the high-profile race to replace retiring Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski.

School 33's "Beautiful Walls for Baltimore" curator Maggie Villegas wants to collect and share the stories of murals and their makers in Baltimore.

Is Graziano the reincarnation of Rip Van Winkle and other pressing issues raised by sex-for-repairs scandal

Fueled by a surge of new state demolition money, Baltimore officials plan to quickly knock down more than 100 vacant buildings at two dozen blighted sites in East and West Baltimore over the next few months.

Details will be released Friday about the settlement agreement in a class-action lawsuit over an alleged sex-for-repairs scheme at the Housing Authority of Baltimore City.

Gov. Larry Hogan's office last week announced $250,000 in funding for the rehabilitation of 10 historic homes on Shipley and Roberts Avenues in the Winters Lane neighborhood.

Calling Baltimore's abandoned rowhouses "hotbeds for crime," Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday announced a nearly $700 million plan to tear down thousands of vacant buildings and replace them with new developments — a level of investment in Baltimore's poorest neighborhoods some say is unprecedented.

The Housing Authority of Baltimore City has reached a settlement agreement in a class-action lawsuit that alleges maintenance men demanded sex acts from at least 19 women as a condition of making repairs to their homes, the parties confirmed Monday.

Baltimore County honors its homeless during a ceremony in Towson on the longest night of the year.