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About 25,000 Baltimore homeowners who received the homestead property tax credit this year will lose the sometimes-large break if they don't apply for it by Dec. 31, the Baltimore City Council warned Monday.

City public works officials say they are adjusting Baltimore public schools water bills after a series of schools were overbilled recently by thousands of dollars — including one school whose bill rose by nearly $200,000.

The City Council adopted or moved forward a handful of bills on Monday that increase the amount of information city agencies and partners share with the council and the public.

Hundreds of Baltimore Orioles' fans donned their best orange wear and rallied in front of City Hall Wednesday, hoping their joyful noise would reach the team preparing to take on the Yankees in New York City.

Residents near the Rotunda are asking the city for their own Residential Permit Parking area, which would ban shoppers and apartment dwellers at the redeveloped Rotunda from parking on those streets for more than two hours at a time on weekdays. But Hampden merchants worry that that would hurt their businesses by not allowing shoppers to park on side streets off The Avenue. Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke supports the residents on the issue.

Remove obstacles to GED and Baltimore will benefit greatly

State and city lawmakers expressed concerns Monday about Baltimore's public school system after a searing audit called attention to a lack of oversight to school spending.

BGE representatives attend Roland Park Civic League meeting Oct. 4 to discuss utility's slow response to derecho storm and the effect on Roland Park, where a lot of people complain of problems such as trees interfering with power lines and old grids.

Charles Street overhaul by Homewood campus to claim 190 trees; city pledges to replant more

Charles Street Reconstruction Project calls for felling trees along the service drive of the 3500 block of North Charles Street and in preparation they have been stripped of their branches and look bare. City Council member Mary Pat Clarke is angry about it and says they're cutting down good trees.

Many Baltimore students and residents have had their high school completions hanging in limbo, city and adult education officials say, since the state transferred GED services from the Department of Education to the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.

Competing visions of mass transit for the Charles Street corridor.

Baltimore elected officials said they were outraged Friday by an inspector general report that found the Mayor's Office of Information Technology and a former deputy mayor withheld information from and misled city officials about a controversial project to install nearly $675,000 in phone and computer equipment.

As Baltimore's speed cameras rack up millions of dollars in fines, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is announcing a task force to study the devices and the city's red light cameras.

The Baltimore City Council on Sept. 19 held a public hearing on BGE's response to the June 29 derecho storm and how it could be improved in such unforeseen weather events in the future

Medfield Heights Elementary has earned a distinguishable title all its own: It's now the home of the "Three-Peat."

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Wednesday defended the city's booming revenue from speed cameras, placing the blame on motorists who refuse to slow down.

Avenue Antiques gets even bigger, sprawling into the old, historic Ideal Theatre next door on The Avenue in Hampden. The store holds its grand opening Friday afternoon and unveils new artwork the Walters Art Museum installed on an exterior wall of Avenue Antiques.

Baltimore's Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation declined to vote on the ouster of the commission's executive director Monday.

An unidentified woman was attacked by a Rottweiler outside the farmers' market in Waverly Saturday after it broke the leash with which it was tied to a parking meter, witnesses said Sunday.

Baltimore's Urban Design and Architectural Review Panel recommended schematic approval Thursday of the Rotunda mall redevelopment project. The panel will hold at least one more hearing before it decides whether to recommend city approval of the overall redevelopment plan. That hearing has not yet been scheduled. The panel rejected concerns that the proposed setback between the redevelopment site and homes on nearby 38th Street in Hampden is inadequate.

Baltimore's Urban Design and Architecture Review panel on Thursday approved the master plan for a nearly 3 million-square-foot development at Harbor Point, the former Allied Signal chromium property between Harbor East and Fells Point.

Rotunda mall redevelopers to expand plaza and add green space

A small crowd criticized BGE's derecho response at a Baltimore public hearing Tuesday.

The Baltimore City Council gave final approval Monday to a scaled-down version of a bill to require regular audits of major city agencies, some of which have not had a detailed financial review for more than a decade.

How did The Sun miss the city's National Night Out?

As Baltimore has moved to take the homes of hundreds of city residents for unpaid water bills as small as $350, the city water system has allowed some big businesses, nonprofits and government offices to run up delinquent accounts totaling more than $10 million, The Baltimore Sun has found.

Graul's Markets, the upscale grocery chain, is interested in opening a sore in the Rotunda to replace the Giant that left.

Advance on two things of note related to the derecho in June. Baltimore City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke is introducing a resolution on the 13th asking BGE and PSC to appear at a council hearing to discuss how the city and BGE can be more proactive in dealing with storm emergencies. Also, BGE will hold a public hearing on the 14th about the storm response.

Residents of Elm Avenue and 38th Street are seeking permit parking and garage spaces included in the rents for town houses that are being built near them as part of redevelopment of the Rotunda mall.

Baltimore City's urban design panel questions why Rotunda redevelopment is planned without an interior mall

City architectural review panel objects to 'inside-out' redesign of North Baltimore's landmark Rotunda shopping center.

City transportation department to hold public meeting July 12 on traffic and pedestrian safety issues in Tuscany-Canterbury.

Birder and Charm City Circulator operations manager Paul Kilduff is closely monitoring nesting boxes he set up in Lake Montebello, because tree swallow and bluebird eggs in the boxes have hatched. The rare-for-the-city bluebird nestlings are predicted to leave the nest by July 5, giving them their Fourth of July "independence."

The Baltimore City Council on Monday defeated legislation aimed at requiring city agencies to be audited at least once every two years.

A new Baltimore City Health Department proposal would effectively ban many wine and liquor stores in residential neighborhoods, including at least five in north Baltimore, as part of the city's first comprehensive rezoning efforts in four decades.

The Baltimore City Council reversed course Thursday, rejecting budget cuts they had endorsed earlier in the week, and voting to support the $2.3 billion spending plan crafted by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

Mary Pat Clarke deserves credit for her vote on the bottle tax.

The Baltimore City Council made a statement Monday against Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's proposed budget — voting to fund fire companies, recreation centers, Youth Works summer jobs and afterschool programs by making $6.4 million in cuts to other city agencies.

Councilwoman Clarke is not doing a 'big plan' for schools after all

Baltimore needs more than a new tax to address problems

An increase to Baltimore's bottle tax – the linchpin of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's plan to raise funds to renovate the city's decrepit school buildings—received preliminary approval from the City Council Monday, likely assuring the measure will become law.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's proposed increase to the city's tax on bottle beverages is expected to move forward Monday after being corked up for months by a City Council committee.