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Palm Sunday gathering at City Hall offers blessing for Baltimore
While several homeless people gathered on benches on the plaza outside City Hall on Palm Sunday, a crowd of 60 churchgoers from congregations around Baltimore stood at the front door to pray for them — and for other needs facing the community...
Tags: Roland Park, Religious Festivals, Christianity, Anglicanism, Maryland General Assembly
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Rawlings-Blake's budget includes new taxes, raises
Baltimore residents would have to pay more to grab a cab. They would be hit with an additional fee in their water bills. And they would have 300 fewer firefighters on the payroll. But they also would have lower property taxes, better recreation centers...
Tags: Public Employees, Finance, Public Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Employees
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Plans for third annual President's Cup baseball tournament unveiled
On Wednesday, the sunny, breezy first day of spring, City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young walked up to a podium inside the Warehouse at Camden Yards and started to sniff the air. Young asked an audience that included area high school players...
Tags: Baseball, Major League Baseball, World Baseball Classic, Baltimore Orioles, Sports
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Baltimore's population up, following decades of loss
Baltimore, coming off six decades of population decline, grew by 1,100 residents in 12 months, according to government estimates released Thursday. "It's such amazing news. … It's huge psychologically," said Seema D. Iyer, a former research chief...
Tags: Local Government, Carroll County (Maryland), Population and Census, Immigration, 2010 Census
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Longtime Baltimore City Del. Hattie Harrison dies at 84
Del. Hattie Harrison, who was the longest-serving member of the House of Delegates, died Monday night, House Speaker Michael E. Busch announced. She was 84. Delegate Harrison, a Democrat who represented East Baltimore's 45th District since 1973,...
Tags: Annapolis, Anthony G. Brown, Michael E. Busch, Human Interest, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Mayor plans to introduce tax program for city apartments
As part of her push to increase Baltimore's population, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake plans to introduce legislation to the City Council next week that will provide generous tax breaks to builders of apartment buildings downtown and in six other...Tags: Bill Henry, Property Tax, Taxation, Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, Politics
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O'Malley, Rawlings-Blake will pay for Super Bowl tickets
Gov. Martin O'Malley will be in New Orleans to root for the Ravens at Super Bowl XLVII, but he hasn't yet decided who will get to use six other tickets he controls. As governor, O'Malley has a state skybox at Ravens stadium, which allows him to purchase...Tags: Politics, Trips and Vacations, Martin O'Malley, Super Bowl XLVII, Ken Ulman
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City extends IT staffing contracts
Baltimore officials voted on Wednesday to extend the contracts of two firms that provide many of the city's information technology workers, saying they needed more time before allowing other companies to compete for the work. Under the terms of a $2.4...Tags: IBM, Local Government, Technology, Politics, Elections
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Hattie Harrison, longest-serving Md. delegate
Hattie Harrison, the matriarch of East Baltimore politics who often greeted colleagues as "Baby" and was known for her signature curled hair and Southern cooking, will be remembered at a funeral at noon Feb. 9. Mrs. Harrison died of heart disease...
Tags: Marvin Mandel, William Donald Schaefer, Politics, Talmadge Branch, PTA
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Baltimore reshaping approach to aging water lines
Baltimore water officials have been dogged in the past year by a series of extremely public problems: widespread billing errors that required millions in refunds, massive water main breaks that closed downtown streets, and a collapsed stormwater culvert...
Tags: Finance, Public Finance, Loans, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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State scraps plans to build youth jail in Baltimore
After years of community opposition, state officials have abandoned plans to build a new Baltimore jail for juveniles charged as adults, citing declines in youth crimes as they unveiled a plan Wednesday to send more teens to treatment programs and...
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Murder, Politics, Prosecution, Martin O'Malley
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Top commanders unaware of training where officer was shot
Top Baltimore police commanders, including the director of the agency's training academy, were unaware that training exercises were being conducted at an Owings Mills facility where a rookie University of Maryland officer was shot in the head and...
Tags: Standards, Criminals, Anthony W. Batts, Hospitals and Clinics, Shootings
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