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Governments should use zoning to limit liquor stores, Hopkins researchers say
Zoning laws have become a powerful way to reduce the number of liquor stores in cities, but too few government officials use them, Johns Hopkins University public health researchers said in a new report. Researchers from the Center on Alcohol Marketing...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Crime, Law and Justice
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Mayor to propose new taxes on billboards, taxi rides
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is expected to introduce legislation Monday that would give the city authority to levy two new taxes. One bill would authorize a tax of about 25 cents per taxi trip. Another would impose a tax on billboard advertisements...
Tags: Advertising
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City, Rite Aid reach agreement on Howard Park supermarket site
Rite Aid agreed Thursday to allow construction of a ShopRite supermarket in West Baltimore's Howard Park neighborhood to move forward. The move appears to eliminate the final impediment to the long-awaited grocery store. A groundbreaking has been...
Tags: Rite Aid Corp., ShopRite
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NAACP false alarm shows region on edge over security
NAACP employees were going through the mail Thursday at national headquarters in Baltimore when they found a strange-looking envelope. It bore no return address and had a Memphis, Tenn., postmark — just like letters to President Barack Obama and a...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Stranger Than Fiction, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Ricin Mail Attacks (2013), Martin O'Malley
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Mayor says she's pressing for speed camera accuracy
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Wednesday she's pressing her Department of Transportation to ensure speed camera accuracy after officials acknowledged that 590 erroneous tickets were issued by the city's new multimillion-dollar camera...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Local Government, Photography Supplies and Services, Politics, Photography and Video
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City suspends speed camera tickets amid new mistakes
Baltimore officials announced Tuesday that they have suspended the city's troubled speed camera program amid fresh reports of erroneous tickets, this time involving a new multimillion-dollar camera network. The Baltimore Sun found that a recently...
Tags: Science and Technology, Crime, Law and Justice, Photography and Video, James Brochin, Politics
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Building for the future
A massive capital construction and improvement plan to repair or replace dozens of underutilized or dilapidated school buildings in Baltimore City has won the support of legislative leaders in Annapolis, opening the way for the largest overhaul of the...
Tags: Michael E. Busch, Finance, Lifestyle and Leisure, Maryland Stadium Authority, Economy, Business and Finance
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Remembering Sandy Hook on the way to Congress
From Washington to Annapolis to Hartford, Conn., wherever new gun restrictions are being debated, it's important to remember Sandy Hook. That's not a plea to the emotions. That's a plea to human decency and common sense — a reminder of the...
Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), National Rifle Association of America, U.S. Congress, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control
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Auditors urge greater oversight of homestead credit
State tax officials should take steps to help ensure that Marylanders who receive the homestead property tax credit remain eligible for the popular discount, auditors said in a report released Wednesday. Auditors also said state officials should...Tags: Accounting and Auditing, Crime, Law and Justice, Local Government, Rentals, Justice System
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A more efficient fire schedule
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's proposal to change the shift schedule for city firefighters has set off a storm of protest, and not without reason. Forget the fact that firefighters' hourly wages would go down under the plan. Going from a four-days-on,...
Tags: Fires
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Six killings over weekend continue spike in city violence
Baltimore police moved Monday to increase foot patrols over the next month and conduct street sweeps of violent fugitives after a weekend that saw six people killed and continued a violent start to 2013. Baltimore has recorded 35 homicides this year, a...
Tags: Anthony W. Batts, Murder, Shootings, Crime, Law and Justice, Baltimore County
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Rondeau serves as new Family League director
Jonathon Rondeau, who recently ran an Upper Malboro training center for people with disabilities, has taken the reins at the Family League of Baltimore. Rondeau, who worked most recently as the chief program officer at Melwood Horticultural Training...Tags: Autism
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