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However Baltimore's plain-spoken police commissioner is remembered, he will leave a difficult legacy behind when he departs on the first day of August. The number 200.

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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's guests in the city's private skybox at Ravens games this past season included a small circle of city employees, prominent business leaders, donors to her campaign, and several family members, documents show.

After a record low percentage of Baltimore voters trickled into the polls last year, politicians and community advocates are pushing to shift the city's election cycle to lure more people to vote.

Ethical questions raised after mayor kicked Young out of city's skybox over Grand Prix dispute

City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young is urging Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to abandon the troubled Baltimore Grand Prix and focus on "core issues that impact the quality of life for all Baltimoreans."

Maryland Del. Luedtke hopes to stop spread of 'backdoor slots'

Operators say they're offering a legal "sweepstakes," and offering the results of a predetermined game on computer screens. But similar operations have run into legal trouble and outright bans elsewhere.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake went to a dilapidated East Baltimore elementary school Monday to urge the City Council to adopt her plan to raise the city's bottle tax to help pay for a major school renovation program.

Two Baltimore City Council candidates were poised to overcome write-in challenges Tuesday, converting their Democratic nominations into general election victories.

Voters may as well enact the two charter amendments on the city's ballot; setting up a fund for school construction and lowering the minimum age for council members might not do much good, but they won't hurt anything either.

Baltimore City general election candidates 2011

Voters who cast ballots in Tuesday's general election will also have a chance to weigh in on two issues concerning the city's younger residents – although the impact of both initiatives is unclear.

Members of the Republican, Green and Libertarian parties are often divided by strong ideological differences in national politics. But in Baltimore, candidates from the three parties emphatically agree on at least one point: The long-running dominance of Democrats in city politics is detrimental.

The Sun should cover Green Party candidates for office this fall

Bernard C. "Jack" Young, picked by his fellow City Council members last year to lead the panel, won the Democratic nomination Tuesday to keep the office for four more years.

Voters are to blame for low turnout, but an odd-year election and an electoral system that provides a poor reflection of residents' preferences didn't help.

As utilities continued to restore power to more than 165,000 people across the state in the wake of Hurricane Irene, the storm's aftermath claimed another Marylander. Won Koo Sung of Ellicott City died and his wife and son were in critical condition from carbon monoxide poisoning.

In its last meeting before the September primary election, the Baltimore City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling on state legislators to give the council input in the selection of school board members.

a footnote to the story in the Baltimore Sun this week about City Councilman Robert Curran telling a resident in his district that if he wanted to get police to respond more quickly to a 911 call, he should lie and tell them there is a gun involved

Baltimore City Councilman Robert W. Curran holds a news conference to defend his advice for residents calling 911 to say there's a gun involved, even if there isn't.

Baltimore City Councilman Robert W. Curran raised some eyebrows at a community meeting this month when he urged residents to speed up police response times by telling dispatchers "there is a gun involved," even if there is not.