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Friends of an armed Baltimore County man killed by police remember him as kind, with inner struggles
The man shot and killed by Baltimore County Police in Phoenix last weekend was a “loyal and caring person” who also had inner struggles, - Treatment provider Gaudenzia, which operated in Owings Mills until 2015, was the only provider to bid to operate the 70-bed Rosewood Center facility
- Local government should aim over the next two years to complete the vision of that groundbreaking Walkable Towson Plan as the private sector does the rest.
- Even though his tenure as Baltimore County executive ended six months ago, Don Mohler has kept busy heading a county commission, blogging and podcasting, etc.
- Tuition promise scholarships are changing conversations around family dinner tables; college can be affordable. The impossible might just become possible.
- The Greater Baltimore Committee recognized Dr. Thomas Scalea and Donald Mohler with its top awards Monday night at the business group’s annual meeting.
- Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. on Tuesday named Melissa Hyatt, a veteran of the Baltimore Police Department and head of security at Johns Hopkins University and Medicine, as his choice for county police chief.
- Baltimore County executive and council could have seen the budget deficit coming a year ago.
- Is there any educational issue more important than deciding when the school year starts? Why, yes, pretty much all of them.
- For the second time in less than three years, Baltimore County officials say they will review the way police conduct sexual assault investigations following continued complaints about how authorities handle the cases.
- Anne Arundel County officials moved Tuesday to end the controversial practice of asking victims of sexual assault to waive their rights to an investigation.
- The recommendation is one among dozens Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. released Tuesday in a wide-ranging report by the transition team.
- More than 200 people attended a Timonium town hall to tell County Executive Johnny Olszewski what they want to see in the county budget — and Councilman Wade Kach provided a long list.
- Almost a full year after first applying with the state to make Catonsville, Arbutus and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, part of the first designated Arts & Entertainment District in Baltimore County, county officials and community groups are still working on the process.
- Baltimore County Animal Services' live release rate has improved in recent years – but the county's Animal Services Advisory Commission says those numbers are not what they seem.
- Baltimore County teachers say they will protest a revised school budget which gives them little pay increases.
- Baltimore County Interim Schools Superintendent Verletta White announced that she was slashing her proposed operating budget by $85 million Tuesday night, only hours after County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. testified before the school board saying the county is facing tough financial times.
- The thousandth tree in the Catonsville Tree Canopy Project will be planted in November. The group's next planting is scheduled for early April.
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Olszewski wants state to double the money it contributes toward Baltimore County school construction
Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. had just one request Friday for the county’s state lawmakers: More money for school construction. - Baltimore County Councilman Tom Quirk is set to lead his colleagues as the council’s chairman for a third time.
- These were the top 10 biggest news stories from the past year.
- Here is a look at who is in and who is out in Baltimore County under the leadership of new County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr.
- Baltimore County Council members heard from a long string of East side residents, business owners and labor leaders Tuesday who urged them to vote in favor of a $78 million assistance plan for Tradepoint Atlantic.
- Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. announced Wednesday that he'll conduct a national search for a new police chief.
- At a difficult time for Baltimore County, Don Mohler was the right man to serve as executive.
- Baltimore County Executive Don Mohler, whose brief tenure ends Monday, was honored Wednesday as a dedicated leader who packed all he could into his seven months in office.
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The unexpected executive: Don Mohler reflects on tenure with Baltimore County after Kamenetz's death
Baltimore County Executive Don Mohler reflects on his brief and unexpected tenure leading the state's third-largest county. - At the final meeting of their term on Monday, Baltimore County Council members voted to extend the county’s traffic camera program, to hire lawyers to defend zoning lawsuits brought by religious groups and to accelerate construction projects.
- County residents and community activists who have been frustrated with the government have often pointed to Homan as the source of their problems.
- Democrats won county executive seats in Baltimore, Howard and Anne Arundel, unseating two Republican incumbents and reversing the red tide that swept the Baltimore suburbs four years ago.
- Gov. Larry Hogan's win in his race for re-election leaves lots of questions: How will he govern in a second term? And what do Democrats do now?
- Remembering Kevin Kamenetz on Election Day: "This was supposed to be his day," his widow says.
- Early Monday morning, volunteers planted Republican campaign signs in the grass around the Boulevard Diner, a popular restaurant along Merritt Boulevard in Dundalk.
- The newly greened Patriot Plaza adjacent the Baltimore County Circuit Courthouse will open with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Nov. 15 .
- There’s still at least one person who thinks Alec Ross has a chance to beat Republican Gov. Larry Hogan in Tuesday’s election. That person is Bette Midler.
- Jordan McNair's staunchest ally, reserve offensive lineman Ellis McKennie, said Maryland "finally did what was right" after the football team was informed of coach DJ Durkin's firing Wednesday.
- The Baltimore County Police Department is reviewing its body-camera policy after an off-duty officer shot and killed a man while working as a security guard Monday. He was not wearing a body camera.
- Baltimore County executive candidates Al Redmer Jr. and Johnny Olszewski Jr. are raising and spending money quickly as they approach election day.
- The Sun endorses Democrat John A. Olszewski Jr. for Baltimore County executive.
- Baltimore County executive candidates Johnny Olszewski Jr. and Al Redmer Jr. are capping off a marathon season of debates and forums with a pair of radio debates.
- Baltimore and Howard counties plan to expand their mental health services.
- A dispute over the future of Baltimore County's agricultural center has roiled north county residents and supporters of the park.
- Baltimore County executive candidates Al Redmer Jr. and Johnny Olszewski Jr. debated Thursday before a crowd of real estate agents, developers and builders. Here are some highlights.
- The official portrait of the late Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz is hung in the Historic Courthouse in Towson.
- Deliberation surrounding Lansdowne High School, as well as immigration, affordable housing and the gubernatorial race were among the most contentious issues debated by the two men hoping to win the Baltimore County Council District 1 seat.
- A federal appeals court has ruled that Baltimore County must pay back employees who were forced to overpay into the county’s pension system for years.
- The candidates for Baltimore County executive will face off Tuesday in their first formal debate of the general election season.
- Baltimore County's teachers' union endorsed Johnny Olszewski Jr. for county executive.
- Blaming Democrats for hot classrooms doesn't help Baltimore city and county kids learn.
- As sweltering heat forces the closure of schools, Gov. Larry Hogan blames local officials and Democratic challenger Ben Jealous blames the governor.