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Baltimore's crime paradox
A hard truth about being Baltimore's mayor is that there is almost never a good time to declare progress. Whenever there is good news to report, it will almost inevitably collide with a fresh tragedy. That's what happened to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-...
Tags: Executive Branch, Anthony W. Batts, Artscape, Government, National Institutes of Health
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Rawlings-Blake touts safety of major Inner Harbor events
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Tuesday touted a summer of safe high-profile events in the downtown area — part of a strategy, aides said, to rebut those who have characterized the Inner Harbor as unsafe. The mayor's remarks were intended to...
Tags: Shootings, Artscape, Cancer, Johns Hopkins University, Inner Harbor
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With plan for new hotel, Harbor East glitters even more brightly
Plans to create an upscale hotel with shops and restaurants on the edge of Baltimore's Harbor East neighborhood are reinforcing city leaders' belief that the thriving waterfront community will continue to spur growth east of the Inner Harbor.
A vacant...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Fells Point, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Harbor East, Whole Foods Market
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Caesars-led group gets OK to run Baltimore casino
Maryland's casino program gathered momentum Tuesday as officials gave the go-ahead for a two-story casino near the Camden Yards stadium complex in Baltimore, even as the developers of a Western Maryland casino were allowed to scale back plans for Rocky...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Casino and Gambling Industry, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Pimlico Race Course, Economy, Business and Finance
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Bratton: Next Baltimore chief must be on same page with mayor
The former police chief of Boston, New York and Los Angeles says Baltimore's next commissioner must be on the same page with the mayor, and he thinks an outsider can provide a fresh perspective under the right circumstances. William J. Bratton, perhaps...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, FBI, Murder, New York City Police Department
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Baltimore casino not expected to open until mid-2014
The slots casino that a group led by Caesars Entertainment Corp. wants to build near M&T Bank Stadium will not be complete until the middle of 2014 at the earliest, the company's head said Monday, meaning the proposed facility's timeline would be extended...Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure, Prince George's County, Economy, Business and Finance, Lotteries
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Appeals court rejects casino developer's Baltimore bid
A Canadian developer whose bid to build a slots casino in Baltimore was dismissed last year has been rebuffed again by a state appeals court. Maryland Court of Special Appeals Judge Robert A. Zarnoch wrote Monday that developer Michael Moldenhauer's...Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Prince George's County, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Entertainment
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City raises stakes, questions in convention race
If you want to win an arms race, minor escalation is not the way to go. Only after President Ronald Reagan started developing a wildly expensive and impractical system to shoot down enemy missiles did the Soviet Union give up the Cold War.
The $900...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Martin O'Malley, Finance, 1st Mariner Arena, Madison Square Garden
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Competing for conventions
If Baltimore manages to build the $900 million convention center expansion and arena proposed for the Inner Harbor, business and civic leaders say, the city will join a growing list of destinations competing to woo lucrative convention business with...Tags: Chicago Hotels, Corporate Officers, Hotels and Accommodations, Sage, Washington (U.S. state)
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Arundel Mills slots parlor installs first set of machines
Four trucks laden with 100 slot machines arrived early Wednesday morning at the nearly completed casino at Arundel Mills mall. For the next two hours, workers wheeled banks of the gleaming new machines, one by one, inside on hand trucks.
Installation...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Casino and Gambling Industry, Annapolis, Penn National Gaming, Cecil County
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Geithner comments on Rawlings-Blake's bacon
The Baltimore SunThere were few laugh lines in U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's Thursday morning address to Baltimore's business community. But one of the biggest resulted from a bizarre off-script non sequitur Geithner made early in his speech. Setting:...Tags: Timothy Geithner, Harbor East, Bacon, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Treasury Secretary Geithner speaks to Greater Baltimore Committee
Speaking to hundreds of Baltimore's business leaders in Harbor East on Thursday morning, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner praised President Barack Obama's handling of the recession and outlined his boss' financial reform wish list, which...Tags: Barack Obama, Money and Monetary Policy, Business Enterprises, Mitt Romney, Politics
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