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Baltimore-area school buses rack up hundreds of speed camera tickets
Automated speed cameras, installed around area schools three years ago with the goal of punishing dangerous drivers and making the streets safer for children, have caught hundreds of school buses speeding near the schools they serve, often with children...
Tags: Public Transportation, Students, Crime, Law and Justice, Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School
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City councilman calls for speed camera hearing
The vice chairman of the City Council's public safety committee called Sunday for a hearing on Baltimore's vast and lucrative speed camera program after an investigation by The Baltimore Sun found that the $40 citations issued to motorists can be...
Tags: Government, Judges, Public Officials, Justice System, Photography and Video
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Public employees caught speeding in trash trucks, street sweepers
Turns out the wheels of government move faster than you might think. Among the 2.5 million speed camera violations issued in the last three years to vehicles in and around Baltimore, thousands were mailed to the same government that issued the tickets....
Tags: Judges, Maryland Transit Administration, Justice System, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Crime, Law and Justice
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City Council urges homeowners to apply for tax break
About 25,000 Baltimore homeowners who received the Homestead Property Tax Credit this year will lose the sometimes-large break if they don't apply for it by Dec. 31, the Baltimore City Council warned Monday. The one-time application is a relatively new...Tags: Credit and Debt, Taxation, Bernard C. Young, Tax Credits, Property Tax
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City erected six-foot fence to protect grass
The Baltimore Department of Transportation has a message for the residents of Tuscany-Canterbury: Do not walk on our grass.
But instead of little signs, the transportation department conveys that message with a six-foot, spike-topped fence. The barrier...Tags: Canterbury
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Homeless, advocates rally in front of City Hall
In his 72 years, Ernest Hawkes has slept in a wide variety of places – military barracks in Vietnam, apartments in Baltimore and New York, homeless shelters. On Saturday evening, Hawkes stretched out on a flattened cardboard box in front of...
Tags: Government, Social Issues, Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland, College Park, Homelessness
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Fence in Tuscany-Canterbury protects grass, but is it cost-effective?
The style of fence is called "Barcelona," but some residents of Tuscany-Canterbury say it reminds them more of Berlin. It's the "Gorbachev fence" to the mother of neighbor Fred Chalfant, who often walks his dog past the barrier, which is six-feet tall,...
Tags: Canterbury
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Superstorm Sandy mostly spares Maryland as it moves up coast
Central Maryland appears to have been spared the worst of Sandy's fury, which was delivered farther up the Atlantic Coast. One man was killed after a tree fell on his home in Pasadena. A second was killed in a head-on collision in Clarksburg that...
Tags: Judges, Disasters and Accidents, Ellicott City, Baltimore County, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport
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City schools overcharged on water bills
City public works officials say they are adjusting water bills for Baltimore public schools after several were overbilled this year by thousands of dollars — including one school whose bill rose nearly $200,000. The school system, meanwhile, has...
Tags: Frank M. Conaway, Sr., Teaching and Learning, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Economy, Business and Finance, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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City Council adopts resolution calling for online 911 log
The City Council adopted a resolution Monday formally asking Baltimore police to create a system for posting active 911 responses online. Police officials raised concerns last month about their ability to create such a system, which would post active...Tags: Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Bernard C. Young, Elections, Voting, Accounting and Auditing
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Hundreds rally for the Orioles at City Hall
Hundreds of Baltimore Orioles fans rallied in front of City Hall on Wednesday, hoping their joyful noise would reach the team preparing to take on the Yankees in New York City in the third game of the American League Division Series. "We're sending a...
Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Baltimore Orioles, American League, New York Yankees
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City should support GED learning
GED and adult literacy instructors in Baltimore are grateful to Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke for being attentive to the challenges faced by city residents in gaining employment and admission to college as evidenced in the recent hearing regarding the...
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