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Lexington Market could get a new building and play host to a weekly farmers' market if the city follows through on new recommendations for an institution dogged by a reputation for safety problems, lack of cleanliness and "smells."

What happens when Baltimore opens its doors?

I took a deep dive last week into Baltimore's drug scene. And when I finally came up for air, I had a newfound clarity on the city¿s troubled TV image and the line between responsible documentary filmmaking and exploitative reality television.

The city's Board of Estimates on Wednesday is set to approve parking rate increases at two downtown garages.

Drug sales in broad daylight at Lexington Market. An addict telling viewers Baltimore "is where you want to be for heroin," and then letting the camera watch her cook and shoot up in her car on a street that appears to be in Hampden after she scores.

Since Baltimore's most distinctive bus stop was unveiled late last month on the side of the Creative Alliance in Highlandtown, the trio of giant letters has become a favorite spot for residents to lounge or pose for pictures.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake appointed two-term City Councilman William H. Cole IV Thursday to lead the Baltimore Development Corp., the quasi-public agency charged with revitalizing the city.

Proposal to convert abandoned buildings on N. Howard St. into theaters, offices and more is a hopeful sign for a neglected part of downtown Baltimore.

But as the projected cost of the Red Line has ballooned from the Maryland Transit Administration's 2008 estimate of $1.63 billion to the current estimate of more than $2.67 billion, the project no longer appears to be affordable without hundreds of millions of dollars from Baltimore City. The financial impact on Baltimore City taxpayers is potentially enormous.

Students saddled with debt from fraudulent for-profit schools should have a way to challenge the situation in court.

The project could introduce the first "ecodistrict" to Baltimore, creating a zone with a set of common environmental goals and infrastructure systems to help meet the targets.

Where's our compassion?

Plan to bring to Baltimore youngsters from Central America who entered the U.S. illegally is ill-advised

Federal officials are eying a vacant office building in Baltimore's west side as a potential shelter for children caught attempting to enter the country illegally.

Chesapeake oysters, long a hard-working staple food of the region, are growing up and getting glam

I've never stopped feeling disappointed in the Baltimore School for the Arts. It behaved more like a private school — with the administration's loyalty to the institution, not the individual — than a public school that receives 70 percent of its operating budget from the city school system.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephants visit Lexington Market.

City and university officials are trying, again, to jumpstart development on the city¿s west side.

Baltimore Police look to Chicago for crime-fighting tips

First-time filmmakers David Posamentier and Geoff Moore used Annapolis and other Maryland locations for their movie about a small-town pharmacist with drug-enhanced ambitions

Why doesn't Baltimore give Lexington Market the same attention as the Inner Harbor?

Many share blame for Lexington Market woes.

Sun's Lexington Market coverage borders on being racist