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Some merchants wary about crime, others optimistic along Greenmount Avenue
The owner of a dress shop is so fearful of crime along Greenmount Avenue in Waverly that she keeps the door locked even when her shop is open. The man who runs a discount store a block away feels it is safe enough to stroll the avenue with his three young...Tags: Waverly (Baltimore, Maryland), Conservation, Halloween, Philosophy, Shootings
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Man, 52, killed in robbery at troubled Greenmount Ave. carryout
A 52-year-old man died after being shot during a robbery at a carryout restaurant in Better Waverly on Monday night, renewing concerns in the community about the crime connected to the beleaguered business. The Yau Brothers carryout, in the 2900 block of...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Murder, Crimes, Theft, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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City schools pay nearly $65 million for unused leave over 5 years
The Baltimore school system has paid its employees about $65 million for unused leave over the past five years, a rare perk that many employers have abandoned and that has come under fire as school districts have experienced shrinking budgets. Since...
Tags: Travel, Career and Workplace, Baltimore County, Arne Duncan, Collective Contract
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As school facilities crumble, executive suites get remodeled
New furniture, a flat-screen television, decorative light fixtures, interactive white boards — these are among amenities the city school system bought during $500,000 in renovations to the central office, even as administrators decried the state...Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Local Elections, Economy, Business and Finance, American Civil Liberties Union, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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City gets few bids to run rec centers
Baltimore received bids Wednesday to run just seven of the 31 recreation centers that officials wanted to hand over to third parties by the end of the year — raising the prospect that some will be forced to close.
A spokesman for Mayor Stephanie...Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Budgets and Budgeting, Regional Authority
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Longtime city budget czar to retire
Baltimore's top financial officer and longtime budget writer said Monday he will retire from city government, the first Cabinet-level departure since Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake won the Democratic primary this month.
Though not a household name,...Tags: William Donald Schaefer, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Primaries, Local Government, Budgets and Budgeting
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City issuing $4.2 million in refunds for faulty water bills
Baltimore's Public Works Department is issuing more than $4.2 million in water bill refunds to 38,000 households in the city and Baltimore County after an audit showed the agency overcharged tens of thousands of customers. The audit, released Wednesday,...Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Manufacturing and Engineering, Waverly (Baltimore, Maryland), Environmental Politics, Electrical Appliance
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New large-scale brewery will be Baltimore's first in more than 30 years
The former bottling plant in the Abell neighborhood has been all but abandoned for years. The Beverage Capital Corp. sign outside has faded. The white office walls have yellowed. A nearby mechanic uses the space that used to hold the bottling line as a...Tags: Distilling and Brewing Industry, Real Estate, Ocean City, Halethorpe, Edgar Allan Poe
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Baltimore's tax diet
Those who wish to lose weight — and with summer swim season around the corner that's probably most of us — know that there are two easy ways to sabotage one's diet and exercise program. The first is to try to do too much all at once and fail,...
Tags: Taxation, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Politics, Property Tax, Health
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Activists call on city to spend $10.2M more on after-school programs, summer jobs
![Standing before some 30 activists and Union Square neighbors Saturday in a neon orange T-shirt with the words "I am Baltimore," 16-year-old Antonio Ellis recited a gritty poem about how the city appears through his eyes.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-05/69910700-12160845.jpg "Standing before some 30 activists and Union Square neighbors Saturday in a neon orange T-shirt with the words "I am Baltimore,\" 16-year-old Antonio Ellis recited a gritty poem about how the city appears through his eyes.")
Standing before some 30 activists and Union Square neighbors Saturday in a neon orange T-shirt with the words "I am Baltimore," 16-year-old Antonio Ellis recited a gritty poem about how the city appears through his eyes.
"Born and raised in the city,...Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Elections, Bill Henry, Labor Markets, Carl Stokes
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Terry Weldon Taylor, political operative
Terry Weldon Taylor, a former public affairs director of a Baltimore health center and veteran political operative, died Wednesday from complications of a stroke at Northwest Hospital. The Windsor Mills resident was 62.
"I got to know him through the...Tags: North Carolina A&T State University, Hospitals and Clinics, Local Elections, Colleges and Universities, Small Businesses
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City taking on rogue valet parking services
Mention valet parking in Little Italy to Justin Duvall, and he'll rattle off stories of valet drivers clogging traffic, parking cars in residential spots and blocking off public spaces with cones.
"I've moved cones before," said Duvall, 29, a lifelong...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Conservation, Harbor East, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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