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Homeless encampment an issue at City Hall
Homeless advocates and a city councilwoman sharply criticized Monday a Rawlings-Blake administration plan to remove an encampment of about a dozen homeless people this week from under the Interstate 83 overpass in central Baltimore. But administration...
Tags: Rochelle Spector, Kidney Disease, Tony Simmons, Dundalk, Social Issues
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Fix state's speed cameras
With rampant abuses of automated speed enforcement camera systems across the state well-documented by the news media and AAA Mid-Atlantic, the House Environmental Matters Committee on Tuesday is poised to review a series of bills to fix a broken system....
Tags: Highway Transportation, Minor League Baseball, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Two steps in the right direction for Baltimore
When cities become dysfunctional, we do not quickly abandon them and our established social networks and routines. And after a city puts itself back together, we may take years to become convinced that the bad old days are over. Awareness of these facts...
Tags: Punishment, Local Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Murder, Laws
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Ticketmaster fees are a necessary evil
It's safe to say that Ticketmaster doesn't have many fans. The service, which handles ticket sales for venues large and small across the nation, charges fees on its transactions that seem to bear little relationship to either the cost of the tickets or...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Crime, Law and Justice, Services and Shopping, Carl Stokes, Ticketmaster
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Reviving Lexington Market
Baltimore's Lexington Market proudly calls itself the oldest continuously operating public market in the nation — and home to some of the best crab cakes in the world at its famed Faidley's Seafood cafe. Yet even a venerable landmark that's been...
Tags: Lexington Market, Marketing
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Mary J. Corey, first woman to lead Sun newsroom, dies of cancer
Mary J. Corey, whose personal warmth was matched by a drive that led her to become the first woman in The Baltimore Sun's 176-year history to head its newsroom, died Tuesday of breast cancer. The Sun's senior vice president and director of content, who...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Kim Kardashian, Martin Luther King Jr., Baltimore Museum of Art, Breast Cancer
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City ethics board chastises Councilman Kraft's comments
The Baltimore SunThe members of Baltimore's ethics board wrote an email to Councilman James Kraft Friday chastising him for comments made in The Sun and the City Paper regarding a dispute between the board and members of the council over a piece of ethics leglsiation. ...Tags: Labor Legislation, Crime, Law and Justice, Voting, Politics, James B. Kraft
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Md. schools concerned cuts will affect next school year
Federal education officials warned Wednesday of deep cuts to school systems such as Baltimore's if lawmakers fail to avert across-the-board spending reductions — leaving local schools uncertain how many teachers and programs they can retain next...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Labor Markets, Budget Control Act of 2011, Crime, Law and Justice, Howard County
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Speed camera bill dies in General Assembly session's final hours
Legislation that would have placed stricter limits on where local governments could put speed cameras and required them to appoint ombudsmen to hear complaints died in the General Assembly Monday night. The legislation would have strengthened language...
Tags: Local Government, Xerox Corporation, Crime, Law and Justice, Executive Branch, Services and Shopping
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Open meetings complaint filed against speed camera panel
Three members of an anti-speed camera group have filed an open-meetings complaint against a task force appointed by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to study Baltimore's troubled automated enforcement system. The complaint, filed April 1, alleges seven...
Tags: Brekford Corp.
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Baltimore's liquor licensing mess
Here's the gist of what legislative auditors discovered when they recently evaluated Baltimore's liquor board: It is doing a lousy job. And here's a short summary of the liquor board's response: Yup. It would be shocking if it weren't so predictable....Tags: Accounting and Auditing, Business, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Bars and Clubs
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Assembly moved quickly to pass bevy of landmark bills
This time last year, the Maryland General Assembly was mired in anger and confusion. The House and Senate were feuding over taxes and casino gambling. Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller and House Speaker Michael E. Busch were butting heads....
Tags: Punishment, Health and Safety at School, Crime, Law and Justice, Martin O'Malley, Interior Policy
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