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Board questions deputy mayor's place in fire pension system
Members of Baltimore's fire and police pension board are questioning whether one of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's top aides should remain part of the lucrative pension system that covers sworn public safety officers. Administration officials say...
Tags: George Nilson, Interior Policy, Health, Health and Safety at Work, Local Government
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Billboard companies object to proposed city tax
Area billboard companies are speaking out against a proposed tax introduced this week by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. In a hearing before the City Council's taxation committee Thursday, the global billboard firm Clear Channel Outdoor offered to give...
Tags: Maryland Zoo Baltimore, Clear Channel Communications Inc., Budgets and Budgeting, Television Industry, Bill Henry
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City in $2 million dispute with Xerox over camera tickets
Baltimore officials are refusing to pay the city's former speed and red-light camera operator $2 million for its final three months of work, a period that preceded the troubled start for the new contractor in January. The city stopped issuing tickets...
Tags: Wage Contract Issues, Career and Workplace, Xerox Corporation, Collective Contract
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T. Rowe Price weighs headquarters move
T. Rowe Price, a fixture in downtown Baltimore since its founding 76 years ago, is considering moving its headquarters once its current lease expires in 2017, the company said Wednesday. The Baltimore-based money manager is weighing several options,...
Tags: Harbor, Pratt Street, Baltimore Development Corporation, Legg Mason, Inc., Harbor East
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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, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Martha's Vineyard, 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: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, 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: AAA, George Nilson, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Wage Contract Issues
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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: Social Issues, Minority Groups, U.S. Department of Justice, Budgets and Budgeting, NAACP
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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: AAA, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace, Separation of Church and State, Politics
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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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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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