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Rawlings-Blake's family, aides get tickets to 1st Mariner shows
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's top aides and relatives have routinely received free tickets to performances at Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena in recent years, including sold-out concerts by such artists as Rihanna, Sade andJay-Z, public records show....
Tags: Entertainment, Government, Music, Values, Ethics
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A deal is a deal
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is surely right that city police officers were way out of bounds when they snatched a Baltimore teen off a city street and dropped him off 11 miles away in Howard County without his shoes. But her decision to nix a...
Tags: George Nilson, Trials, Injuries and Wounds
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City approves 9 percent increase in water rates as auditor says more over-billing found
Baltimore officials approved a 9 percent increase in water rates Wednesday as the city auditor revealed that the beleaguered system's billing problems are more extensive than previously known. City Auditor Robert L. McCarty said a continuing review shows...Tags: Human Mishaps, Water Supply, Career and Workplace, Elections, Employees
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City Council does its job
MayorStephanie Rawlings-Blakesays the City Council is putting Baltimore residents at risk from increased crime, among other calamities, because of its preliminary decision to cut about $6 million from her $2.3 billion budget proposal. She has called the...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Sheila Dixon, Local Government, Property Tax, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Fire chief explains planned company cuts
Baltimore Fire Chief James Clack explained in detail a plan to save money by permanently closing three fire companies during a City Council public safety committee hearing Wednesday. Clack said the plan, outlined as part of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-...
Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Economy, Business and Finance, Fires, Companies and Corporations
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Good afternoon, Baltimore: Thursday lunchtime lowdown
ON THE SITE... Baltimore area bears down for more heat: A heat advisory from the National Weather Service continues into Thursday, lasting through 10 p.m. And the latest forecasts show the heat may not break until the weekend. Man, 18, stabbed in Glen...Tags: Glen Burnie, Insider Trading, 2011 NFL Lockout, Jerry Sandusky, Eddie Murray
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Council discards cuts, approves mayor's budget plan
The Baltimore City Council reversed course Thursday, rejecting millions of dollars in budget cuts it had endorsed earlier in the week, and passing Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's original $2.3 billion spending plan. The abrupt shift derailed $6...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Patterson Park, Helen Holton, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, James B. Kraft
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City spending board approves IT consulting deals
Baltimore's Board of Estimates approved spending $4.5 million Wednesday to extend contracts with two information technology firms that provide workers to the city. The board voted to extend for six months contracts with Telecommunication Systems Inc....Tags: Career and Workplace, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Technology, George Nilson, Employees
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Mayor plans to raise bottle tax to pay for school construction
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will seek to raise the city's bottle tax from 2 cents to 5 cents as part of a plan to boost funding for school construction and repairs, her administration said Thursday.
The bottle tax money and other revenue would...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Unions, Voting, Helen Holton, Casino and Gambling Industry
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Common Cause: Mayor's skybox should be 'people's skybox'
A government watchdog group said Thursday that Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has politicized invitations to her office's Ravens skybox, and urged her to include more working-class residents.
"The mayor has made the choice to turn this into a political...Tags: Water Supply, Rochelle Spector, Business Enterprises, Primaries, Peter O'Malley
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President's Cup baseball tournament could expand with clinic, all-star game
The Baltimore SunWhen the second annual President's Cup baseball tournament came to an end Saturday -- with Mount St. Joseph beating last year's champion, Gilman, 12-11 -- the event's creator was already looking ahead to next year's tournament. Baltimore City Council...Tags: Sports, Baseball, Cal Ripken, Jr., Health, Hospitals and Clinics
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Rawlings-Blake readies for battle over proposal to raise bottle tax
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration is gearing up for a tough fight over her plan to raise Baltimore's bottle tax to pay for repairs to dilapidated city schools.
A bill to increase the 2-cent tax to 5 cents – and devote all bottle-tax...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Justice and Rights, Edward L. Reisinger III, Voting, Finance
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