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Baltimore Believe campaign: 10 years after the Believe campaign, Baltimore is safer and stronger - baltimoresun.com

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Charles Street corridor sees post-recession resurgence

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Lorraine Mirabella - Jul. 31 (News) - Walid Hajj is happy he followed his instincts and bought an incomplete condo redevelopment in Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighborhood last fall.

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City youth become community organizers, promote change - baltimoresun.com

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Julie Baughman - Jul. 31 (News) - Kevin Smith, 15, excitedly began snapping pictures of an old, weathered tombstone he found after wading through tall grass just outside a fenced-in landfill near Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore.

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Utility costs cripple Hippodrome

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Mary Carole McCauley - Jul. 30 (News) - Seven years after the Hippodrome Theatre reopened with a citywide celebration and an outpouring of civic optimism, the historic venue is struggling, beset by exorbitant utility expenses and an audience that is seemingly deserting in droves.

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City notes second declining set of test scores

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Liz Bowie, Erica L. Green - Jul. 30 (News) - The performance of Baltimore's first- and second-grade pupils fell significantly in reading and math on a national standardized test, mirroring the drops on statewide assessments this year.

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If the School Fits: Who’s Pounding the Drum?

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Re:education in Baltimore - By Edit Barry - Jul. 30 (Opinion) - Baltimore City is a case study in the push for school choice. In November 2004, with the benefit of pro bono services from global lawyering giant DLA Piper, the founders of City Neighbors Public Charter School succeeded in an effort to eliminate the cap on the number of new charter schools that could open here.

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UB law dean resigns over university's use of its revenue

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Childs Walker - Jul. 29 (News) - The popular dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law said he was forced to resign this week, and in an unusual move, he used a widely circulated email to air internal tensions over the university's spending of law school revenues to subsidize other programs.

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Japanese Anime Fans Flock To Otakon Convention In Baltimore

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

WJZ-TV - By Pat Warren - Jul. 29 (News) - One of the biggest attention-grabbers of the season is back. Otakon, a convention for fans of Japanese anime, draws thousands to the Inner Harbor each year.

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Why do we kill?

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Investigative Voice - By Alan Z. Forman - Jul. 29 (Opinion) - he excessively high murder rate in Baltimore will not decrease significantly until “the borders of the city are opened up to the state,” a forum filmed and aired live online by C-SPAN was told Thursday evening by the publisher of Investigative Voice and a retired chief homicide detective who addressed an overflow gathering at the independent bookstore Atomic Books in Hampden.

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Baltimore 9/11 Memorial - I think we can do better

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Skyline - By Chris - Jul. 28 (Opinion) - Under construction right now at the foot of the Baltimore World Trade Center is the spot where Baltimore's memorial to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks will stand.

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Nine in the 9th

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Andrea Appleton - Jul. 27 (News) - Late last year, City Councilmember Agnes Welch retired after seven terms in office, totaling 27 years. She had not completed her last term as representative for the 9th District, so the Council appointed a temporary successor. It chose her son and longtime aide, William “Pete” Welch, despite complaints of nepotism and without a unanimous vote. Now the end of Welch’s appointed term is nigh, and eight Democrats have filed to run against him in the Democratic primary, more candidates than in any other city race.

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Teacher Features

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Edward Ericson Jr. - Jul. 27 (News) - In this year’s Democratic primary election, Kraft faces two challengers, both political newcomers, both schoolteachers. Both say that Kraft is not sufficiently responsive to community concerns and has acquiesced to high property taxes. Neither challenger, however, is so far running the kind of aggressive campaign that shook up the last election.

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Challenge Stage

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Van Smith - Jul. 27 (News) - As her first four-year term as an elected member of the Baltimore City Council draws to a close, 57-year-old Sharon Green Middleton (D) is looking to keep her 6th District seat. But two Democratic challengers—Mark E. Hughes, a 39-year-old community organizer from Park Lane who lost two prior electoral outings for state delegate, and 49-year-old Rhonda Wimbish, a realtor from Ashburton who has not run for office before—say Middleton has failed to build a track record of accessible advocacy for the district, and they want to replace her.

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Some Baltimore tourist attractions sizzle in the heat

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Business Journal - By Alexander Jackson - Jul. 25 (News) - As 100-degree weather bared down on visitors outside, there seemed to be no hotter destination than the air-conditioned comfort of Baltimore’s indoor attractions over the weekend.

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Council “Dean” Challenged

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Van Smith - Jul. 20 (News) - In the 2007 city elections, no one filed to run against City Councilmember Rochelle “Rikki” Spector (D-5th District)—even after she publicly acknowledged that she doesn’t actually live in her Northwest Baltimore district, but in a downtown luxury condominium with her longtime boyfriend, Oscar Brilliant. This time around, though, the 74-year-old Spector faces four Democrats vying to unseat her after 34 years in office, the longest incumbency on the Council.

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City employee bilked $55K through forged time sheets

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Julie Scharper - Jul. 20 (News) - A Baltimore public works employee bilked the city of $55,000 in wages by altering electronic time sheets over four years, according to a report released Wednesday by the city inspector general. The employee, who was not named, was fired after an investigation, the report said.

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Waste incinerator contract comes before Board of Estimates

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Mark Reutter - Jul. 20 (News) - How to dispose of the city’s mountain of garbage – and at what price – will be undertaken today by the city Board of Estimates. The $104-million contract for operating the BRESCO incinerator is one of 10 spending items highlighted by our coverage of this week's meeting.

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Deadline for Baltimore slots bids delayed until Sept. 23

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Business Journal - By Daniel J. Sernovitz - Jul. 20 (News) - Maryland’s slots commission voted Wednesday to give developers an extra two months to submit bids to build a casino in Baltimore. The state initially set a July 28 deadline, but the commission decided to extend that until Sept. 23.

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Too hot to learn: The crumbling school infrastructure in Baltimore City and County

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Laurie Taylor-Mitchell, Lois Hybl - Jul. 19 (Opinion) - Baltimore City and Baltimore County have the oldest school buildings in the state, and fewer than half of their schools have decent climate control, either in the hot months or the cold months. When schools were closed early for three days in June, the heat index in several Ridgely Middle School classrooms in Baltimore County ranged from 108 to 116 degrees at the early closing times.

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Rawlings-Blake to propose 9 percent property tax cut for homeowners

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Julie Scharper - Jul. 19 (News) - Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will unveil plans Wednesday to direct nearly all of the revenue from Baltimore's long-delayed slots casino to reducing property taxes for city residents who own their homes, a spokesman said.

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Jody Landers Works Blue

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Edward Ericson Jr. - Jul. 18 (News) - SCENE: A meeting with mayoral candidate Jody Landers, June 13, at a home in Fells Point. There are seven or eight interns gathered around the dining room table (all white young college students), and one of them pitches the idea of a “green suit” he’d like to wear to drum up press.

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Municipal, county governments do more cooperating than arguing

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Maryland Reporter - By Megan Poinski - Jul. 18 (News) - And while there is no stampede to form new towns – the state’s newest municipalities, North Chevy Chase and Martin’s Additions, are close to 20 years old – municipalities and counties are both still co-existing, evolving, and working together.

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Bill would trim Baltimore bottle tax by a year

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Business Journal - By Gary Haber, Daniel J. Sernovitz - Jul. 18 (News) - Baltimore’s controversial beverage tax would end a year sooner than originally planned under a bill scheduled to be introduced at Monday night’s City Council meeting.

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David Harvey: A View From Federal Hill Revisited (at the City From Below in 2009)

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Indypendent Reader - By David Harvey - Jul. 17 (Opinion) - In 2009, The Baltimore Development Cooperative, Red Emma's, and the Indypendent Reader organized a conference on grasroots responses to urban injustice called The City From Below, which kicked off with a presentation by radical geographer and ex-Baltimorean David Harvey. In his talk, he revisited his classic 1991 essay "A View From Federal Hill," which appeared for the first time in the Baltimore Book, and which presented a still essential overview of the way in which private interests had shaped the public urban landscape of Baltimore City. For the City From Below, David Harvey updated his analysis in light of two more decades of development and the global financial crisis which began in 2008, presenting this all to a rapt crowd gathered on Federal Hill itself and overlooking the neoliberal city.

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Tax breaks for developers – economic development or corporate welfare?

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Mark Reutter - Jul. 14 (News) - Twelve downtown and Harbor East buildings received $14.5 million in property tax breaks last year, a report by a city agency shows, with a single developer, John Paterakis Sr., securing $9.4 million, or 65%, of the total.

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