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On the last day of most of its members, the Baltimore City Council passed, without discussion, the first comprehensive rezoning plan the city has had in 40

The departing City Council took its final acts Monday, passing Baltimore's first rezoning plan in a generation and rejecting an effort to rebrand Columbus Day, despite objections from the audience.

The City Council, meeting Monday for the final time this session, is scheduled to vote on a comprehensive rezoning plan and a contentious proposal to rename Columbus Day. It will also bid farewell to eight members who leave with a combined 125 years of experience.

With America's most contentious election in generations not even three weeks past, families throughout Maryland are bracing for a political detente at the Thanksgiving dinner table. With emotions still raw after the election, maintaining the peace when families get together may not be easy.

When the new Baltimore City Council convenes Dec. 8, more than half will take their seats in the chamber for the first time. The newcomers are pledging to push a more liberal agenda than their predecessors, including increasing the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour.

The city has is making changes to land rules near the Horseshoe Casino Baltimore in anticipation of selling two waterfront properties for redevelopment and relocating the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter.

The City Council on Monday gave preliminary approval to a sweeping rewrite of Baltimore's zoning rules affecting everything from fraternities to urban farms — but not before a bitter dispute erupted inside the council's chambers over liquor stores.

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

A City Council committee plans to vote today on amendments to a proposal to raise Baltimore's minimum wage to $15 an hour — part of an effort to try to pass the legislation before year's end.

The Baltimore City Council is expected to pass a $660 million public financing package for Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank's massive Port Covington project — a deal supporters tout as a way to bring thousands of jobs to Baltimore but critics decry as corporate welfare.

The Baltimore City Council is expected to vote today in favor of a $660 million financing package for Under Armour CEO's massive Port Covington project — one of the most hotly debated issues the lawmakers have faced in years.

The City Council defeated a bill Monday that would have required developers to build housing for lower-income families as a condition of receiving taxpayer dollars.

A majority of Baltimore City Council members have signed a petition to force a vote today that would greenlight the Port Covington development, bypassing the

An influential group of Baltimore ministers is calling on the City Council to force a vote next week that would greenlight the Port Covington development, bypassing the committee where necessary legislation has stalled. Several council members say they would support such a move.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Friday announced that City Solicitor George A. Nilson will no longer lead Baltimore's law department.

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.

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.

Some lawmakers are calling for changes to Baltimore contracting practices after a Baltimore Sun investigation found $105 million in cost overruns over the pat four years.

Building a better Hamilton

As protesters decried a cut in library funding, the Baltimore City Council on Monday gave final approval to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's $2.6 billion operating budget — which includes a property tax cut and shrinks city government to its smallest size in decades.

Members of the Baltimore City Council on Monday formally called for an investigative hearing into the problems that occurred during April's primary election.

About 1,650 ballots cast in Baltimore's primary election were handled improperly, a state review has found — prompting some to question the validity of the election results.

State officials are focusing on about 60 precincts in their review of irregularities in Baltimore's primary election, a process they said would be open to the public all day Wednesday after a judge was asked to intervene.

The Baltimore City Council is poised to attempt to override two mayoral vetoes tonight — the latest step in its campaign to try to weaken the city's "strong mayor" form of government.

The City Council failed to override Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake's veto of two bills calling for charter amendments that would allow the City Council to

Developers, business owners and others gave Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake more than $1,600 in gifts last year — with all but one of them flowers, plants or edible items.

The Baltimore City Council began to undergo a monumental shift Tuesday as a number of younger, novice politicians were poised to win Democratic nominations that historically secure victories in November's general election.

Voters in Baltimore will head to the polls Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. to select a candidate in the hotly contested mayor's race, pick 15 members to serve on the City Council and choose a comptroller.

Here are The Sun's picks for City Council in districts 1-5.

Lines stretched out of Baltimore's early voting stations Thursday as a record number of early voters went to the polls.

Baltimore City Council candidates, running in the Democratic primary for districts 3 and 11, chat with Dan Rodricks about their backgrounds and platforms.

A Baltimore City Council committee unanimously approved legislation Tuesday that would effectively end the "strong mayor" form of government in the city.

The 3rd District, which Robert Curran has held tight since 1995 (when he took over for his brother, Mike, who retired from the City Council after 18 years), is another open seat with plenty of viable candidates. There are nine contenders—eight Democrats and one Green. Of the eight Democrats, four have raised significant money and/or have some name recognition or a political track record. Two have a lot of money and backing.

Eight Democrats are running to replace retiring City Councilman Robert W. Curran in Northeast Baltimore, and each of them has competing visions for the Harford Road corridor, improving neighborhood schools and capitalizing on the proximity of Morgan State University.

A city employee was shot and killed at a public works maintenance facility in Penn North Thursday morning, city officials said.

Baltimore Councilman Mosby is on the right track with effort to reduce liquor supply

Fields set for Baltimore council, comptroller and judges' races

Baltimore Councilmember Robert W. Curran, who represents the third district, will honor interracial couple Shirley and John Billy at tonight¿s council meeting, and will submit "F.L.A.V.O.R. - The Civil Rights Love Song," a song written by John Billy, as Baltimore's official civil rights love song.

Baltimore residents need more time to respond to proposed zoning changes that aren't yet finalized

Longtime Baltimore City Council members Robert W. Curran and Rochelle "Rikki" Spector will not seek re-election.

Lillian Baxter Jones-Cuffie, 79, who was active in Baltimore city Democratic politics and was retired from the state's Department of Human Resources, died of congestive heart failure Dec. 28.

The Baltimore City Council — the body with final say over the city's more than $3 billion budget — is likely to experience significant turnover in next year's election.

Legislation backed by the administration of Stephanie Rawlings-Blake would empower city health inspectors to fine — and eventually shut down — retailers that sell synthetic drugs long criticized for appealing to youth with cartoon character marketing and claims of being natural and safe.

Standing in the now-vacant complex dubbed "Murder Mall," City Councilman Nick J. Mosby billed himself in his official announcement for mayor Sunday as a transformer with new ideas and new energy.

A majority of the City Council is poised to vote Monday evening to confirm interim commissioner Kevin Davis as the 38th police chief in Baltimore history.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, beleaguered by the death of Freddie Gray and the protests and rioting that followed, will announce at 10 a.m. Friday that she won't seek re-election, her spokesman confirmed.