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Board approves $285,000 for consultant to tell police how to better run department
Baltimore's spending panel on Wednesday unanimously approved $285,000 for city police to hire a Massachusetts-based consultant — the highest of five bidders — to recommend how the department should be run. Despite the protests of competing...
Tags: Baltimore Police Department, Boston, Politics, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Comptroller to hire consultant to review phone costs
Baltimore's spending panel agreed Wednesday to hire a consultant in an attempt to save money on the city's outdated phone system — even as agencies say they've identified nearly 1,200 unused phone lines that cost the city $670,000 annually....
Tags: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, IBM, Justice System
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Mayor takes a page from O'Malley's playbook on taxes
Bravo! With her latest proposals ("Mayor to propose new taxes on billboards, taxi rides," April 22) Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has joined with our governor in his tax policies. If it moves, tax it (taxis). If it stands still, tax it (billboards)....
Tags: Local Government
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City to void more than 6,000 camera tickets
Baltimore City said Tuesday that it will throw out more than 6,000 speed and red-light camera tickets because its former contractor has stopped showing up in court to defend them — the latest sign of the dysfunction dogging Baltimore's speed...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice, AAA, Local Government
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Fire department to cut diversity-minded recruitment division
A Baltimore Fire Department division developed to increase recruitment among black city residents and combat racial tensions within the department's ranks is set to be eliminated in a planned round of budget cutbacks. The move has caused concerns...
Tags: NAACP, Minority Groups, Racism, Layoffs and Downsizing, Social Issues
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Assembly passes bill to open casino jobs to some ex-offenders
In a move to open thousands of middle-class jobs to former offenders, the General Assembly gave final approval Wednesday to legislation that would allow Maryland casinos to hire some people currently banned because of criminal records. The Senate voted...
Tags: Annapolis, Executive Branch, Employment Opportunities, Lifestyle and Leisure, 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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Police ID man killed Monday in shooting that injured son
Baltimore police said the man killed in Monday's double shooting in West Baltimore was the father of the 11-year-old boy also injured in the attack. Ralph Timmons, 34, was fatally shot in the 1900 block of Bentalou St. on Monday night, police said...
Tags: Murder, NAACP, Shootings, Crime, Law and Justice, Drug Trafficking
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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: Roger F. Wicker, NAACP, FBI, Ricin Mail Attacks (2013), Police Arrests
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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: Photography Supplies and Services, Photography and Video, Annapolis, Politics, Services and Shopping
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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: Photography Supplies and Services, Thomas V. Mike Miller, Photography and Video, Crime, Law and Justice, AAA
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Has Baltimore gotten religion on speed cameras?
Baltimore's speed cameras are off-line for the second time this year after officials found faults with some of the tickets issued by the city's new camera system vendor. Officials say they will void or refund nearly 600 erroneous tickets. We would be...
Tags: Photography Supplies and Services, Photography and Video, Xerox Corporation, Brekford Corp., Services and Shopping
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