Politics
An ambitious development proposal seeks to transform a section of the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello neighborhood dubbed Tivoly Triangle with $250,000 homes.
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Baltimore City
With Mary Pat Clarke and Ed Reisinger opting against reelection bids, more than 50 years of institutional memory will exit the Baltimore City Council chambers. They say it's time to let younger members carry on. City Hall is in flux because of the resignation of Mayor Catherine Pugh.
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Baltimore City
Forcing Mayor Catherine Pugh from office — should the calls for her resignation turn to calls for removal — would be tricky and perhaps not possible without a conviction.
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Environment
The City Council is poised to pass a bill Monday that would force a large Baltimore trash incinerator to dramatically reduce its emissions of harmful pollutants, even though questions remain unanswered about the domino effects it could have on the city's waste stream.
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Baltimore City
City Council members want to cap drivers’ speed on Baltimore streets to 25 mph on main roads and 20 mph on side streets. Legislation proposed by Ryan Dorsey and Mary Pat Clarke would drop the top speed on main thoroughfares such as Harford Road, Martin Luther King Boulevard and York Road.
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Readers Respond
Death of 17-year-old lacrosse player should get a much greater public reaction from Councilman Stokes.
Baltimore City
A Baltimore City Council committee voted to advance a ban on polystyrene foam food and drink containers, setting up the environmental measure for likely final passage in coming weeks.
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Baltimore City
Baltimore City Council members heard concerns about medical cannabis dispensaries Wednesday.
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Baltimore City
City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke says she will file legislation to reinstate information conferences for the public to dispute water billing problems.
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Baltimore City
The $15 minimum wage legislation in Baltimore is officially dead — at least for now.
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Baltimore City
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Baltimore City
Only months after rejecting a similar measure, the Baltimore City Council is poised to pass a bill Monday to raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022 — nearly $5 an hour higher than in surrounding counties.
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Op-ed
"It's time to share the wealth." That's Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke's latest slogan in her campaign for a $15 minimum wage in Baltimore. Like most sound bites, this one is both simplistic and misleading. It wrongly assumes a Baltimore with strong labor demand. It foolishly imagines that fixing the price of entry-level and unskilled labor half again higher than that payable a few miles away will produce no competitive ill effects.
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Baltimore City
Baltimore's City Council, pushed by a group of freshmen members seeking dramatic changes, gave preliminary approval Monday to a bill to raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022.
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Baltimore City
Baker, a 45-year-old downtown security officer, testified Wednesday night as the Baltimore City Council's labor committee weighed a bill to raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022 for many workers.
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Baltimore City
Baltimore City Council members on Thursday spoke out against a new bill that would block them and other jurisdictions from raising the minimum wage above what's approved by the state of Maryland.
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Editorial
The 'Fight for $15' could spell more job losses than benefits for Baltimore
Baltimore City
With eight new Democrats joining Baltimore's City Council in December, proponents of a $15 hourly minimum wage are restarting their campaign to hike wages for low-income workers in the city.
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Baltimore City Paper
A series of amendments recently added to a bill that would rewrite the city's zoning code and passed by the Land Use and Transportation Committee last week
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Podcasts
Baltimore City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke on who inspired her to get into politics and being the city's first female council president.
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Baltimore City
The Baltimore City Council began work Tuesday on potential changes to the proposed tax deal for Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank's waterfront Port Covington development.
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Baltimore City
At least five City Council candidates favored to win in November said they would back a proposal to raise Baltimore's minimum wage to $15.
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Baltimore City
The Baltimore City Council voted Monday to send back to committee a bill raising the minimum wage in Baltimore to $15 an hour by 2023.
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Baltimore City Paper
Baltimore City’s proposed $15 minimum wage, which a City Council bill would bring by 2022, is still alive. But it’s in hospice care.
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Baltimore City
In a vote that is expected to be close, the Baltimore City Council is scheduled Monday to consider whether to raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2022.
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Business
As the City Council weighs financing for the massive Port Covington proposal backed by Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank, some unions representing construction workers say they have come to an impasse negotiating with the developer.
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Baltimore City
City and state officials, Skatepark of Baltimore leaders and skateboarders gathered at the concrete skatepark near Roosevelt Park on Tuesday for a ceremonial groundbreaking of the second phase of construction.
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Baltimore City
A City Council panel adjourned Monday without approving the school system's budget over a $2.8 million funding dispute.
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Baltimore City
Members of the Baltimore City Council on Monday formally called for an investigative hearing into the problems that occurred during April's primary election.
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Baltimore City
Former Mayor Sheila Dixon announced Tuesday she will not seek a recount in April's Democratic primary that awarded state Sen. Catherine E. Pugh the party's nomination.
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Readers Respond
Baltimore's struggling business community can't afford proposed $15 minimum wage
Baltimore City
Criticism of Baltimore's election process mounted Friday as state officials closed in on an explanation for why the number voters who checked in at the polls in last month's primary was less than number of ballots counted.
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Readers Respond
Baltimore's crime and mismanagement deserve a wall, not a conversation about the governor's manners
Editorial
The $15 minimum wage is a bold step that could easily backfire on Baltimore
Editorial
The Sun makes the following endorsements for Baltimore City Council in districts 12-14: Gary Crum, Shannon Sneed and Mary Pat Clarke.
Dan Rodricks
Roughly Speaking podcast: 14th District candidates Mary Pat Clarke and Terrell Williams (episode 78)
More conversations with candidates in the April 26 Maryland primary, featuring the incumbent of the Baltimore City Council's 14th District and her challenger.
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Baltimore City
In a year with much turnover expected in Baltimore City politics, 14th District Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke is one of few incumbents strongly favored to win re-election.
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Though tens of thousands of rental homes in Baltimore may have dangerous lead paint, city workers can inspect only 235 such units a year, a top housing official testified Thursday. At a City Hall hearing called in response to a Baltimore Sun investigation, government officials and others agreed with deputy housing commissioner Ken Strong that the city and state lack the money and manpower to enforce the system Maryland has set up to protect children from the dangers of deteriorating lead-based
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Baltimore City
Though tens of thousands of rental homes in Baltimore may have dangerous lead paint, city workers can inspect only 235 such units a year, a top housing official testified Thursday.
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Baltimore City
Baltimore City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, who represents much of North Baltimore, said Tuesday that the storm overwhelmed the city government's stated goal of plowing side streets at the same time as main roads. When asked if the goal was achieved, she said, "Apparently not. I'm past that ideal."
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Baltimore City
The Baltimore City Council on Monday announced plans to hold an investigative hearing into why hundreds of children are still getting lead poisoning — a preventable disease officials vowed to eradicate years ago.
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Baltimore City
Two members of the Baltimore City Council plan to introduce a resolution Monday to return the handling of 911 calls for police assistance to the police department, after several years of those operations falling under the Mayor's Office of Information Technology.
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Business
After years of discussion over everything from typos to the definition of a family, some have started a campaign to pressure the City Council to bring the first major rewrite of the city's zoning code in decades to a vote.
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Opinion
Mary Pat Clarke on why the City Council fought Thornton on cuts.
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