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Baltimore is one of five U.S. cities that's teaming up with Starbucks to host town hall-style gatherings at neighborhood coffee shops in the hope of hashing out solutions to community problems

Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski recently acknowledged that "the crisis of increased heroin use in Baltimore and across America is destroying families and ravaging communities." To those of us in the trenches working with treatment providers and schools, we already knew this.

Maryland Sens. Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski toured Baltimore's 99-year-old Montebello water treatment plant Monday to draw attention to the needs of municipalities nationwide for federal help to upgrade their aging infrastructure.

City must resist the siren's song of private water industry

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama met with 250 of the nation's mayor's on Thursday -- including Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake -- to discuss the economy, manufacturing and federal investment in infrastructure.

Our goal in Baltimore is to decrease the number of adults who are obese by 15 percent. To that end, Weight Watchers Ambassador Jennifer Hudson was in Baltimore this week to help announce a new initiative through the Weight Watchers and U.S. Conference of Mayors Healthy Communities Grant Program. The

Jennifer Hudson urged women to chart their own path to better health as she spoke to a gathering of Weight Watchers participants at a West Baltimore senior center Tuesday morning.

Eastern Shore officials and conservationists have kicked off a project with four communities — Cambridge, Easton, Salisbury and Snow Hill — to help leaders in those places find ways to use energy more efficiently and with less impact on the environment.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and her security detail made two dozen out-of-state trips in 2013. The mayor's supporters applaud her travel, saying she is representing the city well before groups across the country. But some question whether it's possible to govern as effectively from out of town.

In the face of the federal claim that homelessness has been receding since 2010, The U.S. Conference of Mayors reports that most cities are experiencing surges of homelessness. It's perhaps unsurprising, given a recent announcement by the chief federal housing official that our nation faces the most severe affordable rental housing crisis in our history.

Baltimore's water system already employs good asset management procedures.

Recent city water main break shows the need to explore better ways to manage water system

With city leaders pushing to impose earlier curfews on Baltimore's youth, civil liberties advocates and researchers say such measures don't deter crime and truancy and lead to police targeting children from poorer areas.

On Thursday morning, I read a Page 1 article in The Baltimore Sun that featured Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake saying how sad she was about the ¿state of our community.¿ She was referring to the shocking run of 29 shootings and 10 deaths in a six-day span in Baltimore. The article also included quotes from Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts saying the department¿s initial ¿messaging¿ about the crimes had been ¿terrible.¿

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Comptroller Joan M. Pratt spent the better part of last year in heated political disputes, but by Christmastime, the two city leaders exchanged gifts.

Customers of Baltimore's water system would see their water bills go up 15 percent — more than expected — under a proposal the Department of Public Works announced Monday.

Maryland State Police spent more than $5,600 on Gov. Martin O'Malley's security during his Super Bowl trip earlier this year, officials said Monday.

Baltimore's spending panel is set to approve a $200,000 payout to the family of a 14-year-old Randallstown girl who was electrocuted and killed in 2006 while stretching during a church softball game in Druid Hill Park, ending a years-long legal battle.

Baltimore water officials have been dogged in the last year by a series of extremely public problems. But behind the scenes, they have also been making progress on the city's aged and long-deteriorating water system.

As director of the Mayor's Office of Employment Development in Baltimore, Karen Sitnick oversees an effort that isn't simple even in the best of times — helping city residents find steady work.

United Way Family Stability Initiative helped Brooklyn Homes resident with rent, gifts, groceries

In Charlotte, one man stood up for the poor -- and it wasn't Barack Obama.

Two recent infrastructure failures in Baltimore underscore the need for greater federal investment in the nation's water systems.

A water main break in downtown Baltimore disrupted evening commutes and appeared to have a main artery "buckling."

Abdu Muhammad, who owns Pearl's Caribbean Cafe on Laurens Street in Upton, is famous for his curry chicken. Now he is famous for his garden, too.

Vacant lots in Baltimore's Upton cleared for community garden, with help of Scott's

Regarding the story, "A Place to Call Home," by Kevin Rector, in the Oct. 26 edition of the Towson Times, I'd like to thank the Times and Mr. Rector for shining a light on the critical issue of housing and treatment options for the ever-growing number of community members with mental illnesses.

Hosting a crab dinner doesn't have to mean boring paper and plastic

U.S. Conference of Mayors participant says Charm City lived up to its name

Afghanistan is not the only foreign policy interest of the nation's mayors; a desire to shrink the nuclear arsenal is a priority, too