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In defeat, a victory for Baltimore pension reform
Baltimore's Fraternal Order of Police is celebrating what is, at most, a Pyrrhic victory in its effort to reverse the pension reforms Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the City Council enacted two years ago. Federal Judge Marvin J. Garbis' ruling that...
Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Justice System, Laws
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Save the Mechanic
Robert Moses told Baltimore to put a highway through Mount Vernon Square. Aren't you glad Baltimore did not listen? William Donald Schaefer and every public official in Maryland wanted to put an interstate highway through Fell's Point that would have run...
Tags: Harbor East, Highway Transportation, Mount Vernon, Robert Moses, Inner Harbor
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150 years later, preservationists see victory at Antietam
— The fighting that killed or wounded 21,000 Americans in the rolling hills of Western Maryland was over in about 12 grisly hours. But a century and a half after the bloodiest day in American military history, the struggle to preserve the ground...
Tags: Annapolis, Armed Forces, Slavery, Human Interest, Antietam National Battlefield
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Mayor Schaefer musical gets second reading
William Donald Schaefer sang Baltimore's praises loudly, so it's only fitting that a new musical should be singing his.
The title of "Do It Now!" — music by Baltimore Symphony Orchestra member Jonathan Jensen, book by Baltimore-born playwright Rich...Tags: Annapolis, Entertainment, Executive Branch, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Theater
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Hearings on utilities' derecho storm response scheduled
Maryland energy regulators will grill Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. officials on their cleanup after the June 29 derecho storm in a hearing scheduled for Sept. 13. Eight public hearings will meanwhile take place across the state in August, the...
Tags: St. Paul Street, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Civil and Public Service, Government, Politics
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Carl Hyman, neighborhood activist
Carl S. Hyman, an executive of a firm that tests students and assesses their achievement both in the U.S. and overseas who was also a Tuscany-Canterbury neighborhood activist, died of lung cancer Sept. 5 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. He was 57.
Born in...Tags: Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Lung Cancer, Canterbury, Culture
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Louise K. Smith, retired teacher
Louise K. Smith, a retired Harford County public school kindergarten educator and longtime volunteer, died Aug. 27 at her Havre de Grace home from complications of recent surgery. She was 84.
A daughter of an artist and a homemaker, the former Louise...Tags: New York City, Havre de Grace, Teachers, Queens (New York City), Colleges and Universities
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Doris J. Spriggs, aide to six mayors
Doris J. Spriggs, a former Social Security Administration specialist who later became an aide to six Baltimore mayors, died Tuesday of heart failure at Mercy Medical Center.
The longtime Edmondson Village resident was 79.
"Doris was really one of the...Tags: Annapolis, Entertainment, Executive Branch, Heart Failure, Roman Catholicism
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Hearing set for Tuesday to discuss 'smart meter' fires
The news that a Southeast Pennsylvania utility company has suspended "smart meter" installations following reports that some have overheated and caused fires has prompted the Maryland Public Service Commission to schedule a public hearing Tuesday to...
Tags: St. Paul Street, Civil and Public Service, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Government, Economy, Business and Finance
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O'Malley signs gambling expansion bill
Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation Wednesday asking voters to approve expanded gambling in Maryland as supporters and opponents prepared for what could be a bruising referendum campaign this fall.
The governor's action capped a whirlwind special...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Executive Branch, Garrett County, Prince George's County, Worcester County
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Schurick takes witness stand, denies plan to suppress black vote
The embattled former campaign manager for Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. took the witness stand in his own defense Friday, denying that he planned a last-minute Election Day effort last year to suppress the black vote in Baltimore and Prince George's County in a...Tags: Democratic Party, Executive Branch, Prince George's County, Prosecution, Lawyers
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A downtown building not built
For a city whose last Fortune 500 company was about to be acquired by an out-of-town corporation, there was not just consolation but actual excitement over one of the deal sweeteners: Chicago-based Exelon Corp. promised to build a new downtown office...Tags: Harbor East, House Building, Environmental Politics, Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, Cirque du Soleil
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