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Angelos firm handling Pratt's lawsuit against mayor over phone purchases
The law firm of prominent lawyer and Orioles owner Peter G. Angelos is handling without charge Baltimore Comptroller Joan M. Pratt's lawsuit against the Rawlings-Blake administration's efforts to install a new city phone system that Pratt says illegally...
Tags: Democratic Party, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), IBM, Local Government, Litigation
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Councilman wants answers from city on $1.5 million in excessive tax breaks
Update: On Friday afternoon, Henry J. Raymond, the city’s deputy finance director, sent The Sun this email: “We are in our continuous audit process and will not take any action until all accounts can be reviewed and we can approach these...Tags: Property Tax, Tax Credits, Politics, Fells Point, Human Interest
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Baltimore ethics forms to go online, new IT director says
The financial disclosure forms filled out by about 1,900 city employees will be entered into an online searchable database, the city's new Chief Information Officer told the city's ethics board Tuesday. "It's a really easy project," said Chris Tonjes,...
Tags: Ethics, Religion and Belief, Values, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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Rawlings-Blake calls for regular review of Baltimore agencies
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has asked the city comptroller to conduct regular examinations of several agencies that have not been audited in decades, starting in the Department of Recreation and Parks. The request came Tuesday as City Council...
Tags: Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Accounting and Auditing, Economy, Business and Finance
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Lucille Gorham, neighborhood activist
![Lucille Gorham, a longtime East Baltimore neighborhood activist whose "quick wits and good-natured tenacity" equipped her as the voice of poor residents who lived near Johns Hopkins Hospital, died of cancer Saturday at her Belair-Edison home. She was 81.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-11/73211994-07092130.jpg "Lucille Gorham, a longtime East Baltimore neighborhood activist whose "quick wits and good-natured tenacity\" equipped her as the voice of poor residents who lived near Johns Hopkins Hospital, died of cancer Saturday at her Belair-Edison home. She was 81.")
Lucille Gorham, a longtime East Baltimore neighborhood activist whose "quick wits and good-natured tenacity" equipped her as the voice of poor residents who lived near Johns Hopkins Hospital, died of cancer Saturday at her Belair-Edison home. She was 81....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Activism, Politics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, M.J. Brodie
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City voters change election cycle, require more audits
Baltimore voters were poised to approve four charter amendments Tuesday, including one to move city elections to the same years that the nation chooses a president. The city would hold its next election in 2016, under one of the changes leading by...Tags: Local Elections, Government, Parties and Movements, Libertarian Party, Enoch Pratt Free Library
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Affordable-housing requirement waived for Superblock
Baltimore's Department of Housing and Community Development has waived the affordable-housing requirement for the Lexington Square "Superblock" project, a development discussed Thursday at a meeting of the City Council's Taxation, Finance and Economic...Tags: Baltimore Housing, Baltimore Development Corporation
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Dunbar to unveil new football field for Friday's homecoming game vs. Carver
For the last couple months, Dunbar athletes have been keeping an eye on the renovation of their football field, hoping they would get to play a few games there this fall. "They think it's Christmas," Poets football coach Lawrence Smith said of the...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Sports, Lacrosse, Under Armour Inc., Soccer
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Bill to place advertisements on city fire trucks moves forward
A Baltimore City Council committee approved a measure Tuesday that would allow advertisements to be placed on fire trucks to help support the department — and potentially prevent the closure of some fire companies. Firefighters and community...
Tags: Bernard C. Young, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Helen Holton
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Council votes down bill seeking audits of city agencies
The Baltimore City Council defeated legislation Monday aimed at requiring city agencies to be audited at least once every two years. The council voted 8-7 against the measure sponsored by Councilman Carl Stokes, who appeared disheartened by the outcome....Tags: Bill Henry, Politics, Mary Pat Clarke, Elections, Helen Holton
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Don't blame speed cameras for catching speeders
Will a state or city leader with a clear set of well-considered priorities please stand up? Jill Carter and Carl Stokes are at it again ("Speed cameras yield $19.2 million," Sept. 12). I can't keep up with all the issues they keep raising. Let me tell...Tags: Druid Hill
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City Council gives preliminary approval to Harbor Point tax break
The Baltimore SunThe Baltimore City Council gave preliminary approval on Monday to a proposal for a decade of tax breaks for Harbor Point, the future home of Exelon Corp.'s Baltimore headquarters. Two council members, Nick Mosby and Carl Stokes, voted against including...Tags: Tax Credits, Harbor, Kraft Foods Group, Inc., Exelon Corp., Politics
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