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Closing Baltimore's ethics loopholes
Disclosure of possible conflicts of interest is crucial to maintaining public trust in government and in ensuring that elected officials maintain the highest standards of conduct. But Baltimore has managed to render something so important a near total...Tags: Values, Judges, Public Officials, Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief
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Stokes eyes taking property tax plan to city voters
City Councilman Carl Stokes says he may go straight to voters this fall to approve cutting the city's property tax rate in half by 2017 — a proposal he said would be paid for, in part, by raising a cap that limits the assessed value that can be...Tags: Taxation, George Nilson, Local Government, Local Elections, Tax Credits
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O'Malley under scrutiny as he serves in two roles
On Monday, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is set to unfurl the most ambitious legislative agenda of his six years in office. By Thursday evening, he's scheduled to be 200 miles north in a Midtown Manhattan hotel, schmoozing with contributors to the...Tags: Rick Perry, Executive Branch, Annapolis, U.S. Senate, Elections
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Alonso wants to borrow $1.2 billion to repair city schools
Baltimore City's schools chief told state legislators Tuesday that he hopes to borrow $1.2 billion— six times more than the school system's current bonding authority — to pay for a massive and rapid overhaul of the city's crumbling public...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Nathaniel J McFadden, Pension and Welfare, U.S. Senate
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Cole says he alerted state to Federal Hill assessment error several years ago
City Councilman William H. Cole IV said Wednesday evening that his office told state assessors several years ago that they had mistakenly valued a large Federal Hill home as if it were a fraction of its true size. And Cole said others in the...Tags: Federal Hill, William H. Cole IV, Homes
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Baltimore has fewer than 200 killings for first time in decades
The annual number of killings in Baltimore has fallen below 200 for the first time in more than three decades, a symbolic threshold that seemed elusive for a crime-weary city just four years ago.
As a new year begins, city officials say the decline is...Tags: Executive Branch, Washington, DC, Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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City councilman presses for property-tax overhaul
Along with some of his neighbors, the chairman of the Baltimore City Council's taxation committee is getting a remarkable tax break on his home: He pays just 16 percent of the bill. The Homestead Property Tax Credit picks up the rest.
But instead of...Tags: Taxation, William H. Cole IV, Tax Credits, Charles Village, Politics
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Hampden hosts Baltimore mayor, council candidates forum
The Roosevelt Recreation Center on Aug. 23 looked like a voting precinct on Election Day.
Although the Democratic and Republican primaries aren't until Sept. 13 and Roosevelt isn't a voting place, it was the center of attention — and campaign signs...Tags: Senator Theatre, Belinda Conaway, Social Media, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice
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Baltimore mayoral race: What should we ask the candidates?
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has no free shot in her attempt to win election to a post she inherited less than 18 months ago. She faces five challengers in the Democratic primary, including three current officeholders, a one-time chief of staff to Ms....Tags: Senator Theatre, Agnes Welch, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Elections
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Rawlings-Blake property tax cut: A good start but not the final word on tax reform
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's proposal to cut 20 cents off of Baltimore's property tax rate for owner-occupied homes by 2020 is a good idea for what to do with the city's projected revenue from slot machine gambling. Whether it is sufficient to spark a...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Edward Pugh, Joseph T. Landers, III, Elections, Washington (U.S. state)
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Vernon H. Wolst Jr., Project Survival founder, dies
Baltimore Sun reporterVernon H. Wolst Jr., founder of Project Survival, an education and mentoring program that used basketball and other sports to help improve reading and math skills, died Aug. 22 of a massive heart attack at Northwest Hospital. The Catonsville resident was...Tags: Physical Conditions, Heart Attack, Health, Morgan State University, Basketball
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Crowded fields, strong incumbents in City Council races
The incumbent ditched a mayoral bid at the last minute, deciding instead to try to hang on to his seat representing parts of Charles Village, Oliver, Remington and Station North. His challengers include a community activist who hopes to be the...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Nicholas C. D'Adamo Jr., Executive Branch, Station North, Documentary (genre)
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