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City police seek $285,000 to hire consultant
The Baltimore Police Department is asking the city for $285,000 to hire a Massachusetts-based consultant — the highest of five bidders — to recommend how the department should be run. But a city councilman is questioning the need for a...
Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Harvard University, Car Tires, Maryland State Police, Politics
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Back Story: Buildings are gone but not forgotten
Gregory J. Alexander and Paul Kelsey Williams have combed through photo archives, and the result of their labors is "Lost Baltimore," which is a painful reminder of notable buildings that fell victim, for the most part, to fire or urban renewal. They...
Tags: Baltimore Hotels, Edgar Allan Poe, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Architecture, Endangered Species
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Shake-up at Florida port
A reader sent me this Jacksonville Biz Journal story that the Canaveral Port Authority has fired its CEO, J. Stanley Payne. The reasoning was a too-high turnover rate, and the port authority is conducting a nationwide search for Payne's replacement.Tags: Jacksonville (Duval, Florida)
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Tilda Swinton sleeps in a box at MoMA and Twitter is amused
The tall stalk of pale, Scottish androgyny known as Tilda Swinton has brought her 1995 performance-art piece "The Maybe" to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The piece, which requires the Oscar-winning actress to lie inside a transparent box for hours...Tags: Twitter, Inc., Arts, David Bowie, Museums, James Franco
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UPDATED: Board votes against privatization of Virginia port
ReporterThe Virginia Port Authority will not privatize most of its port operations. The authority's board of commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to discontinue negotiations with two companies that were seeking to lease and operate the state's ocean...Tags: Norfolk Southern Corporation, Regional Authority, Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Hampton Roads, Politics
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False report: port trade pub retracts article that says privatization decision shelved
A UK-based port trade publication posted and then pulled an article Thursday that said the Virginia Port Authority board had decided to shelve privatization plans, several days before a scheduled vote on that issue. "Despite having received multi-...
Tags: Privatization, Regional Authority, Company Privatization, Government, Politics
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Frank S. Dudley, real estate broker
Frank Simms Dudley Jr., an Eastern Shore real estate broker and property appraiser, died of complications after surgery March 3 at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The former Baltimore resident was 93.
Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Frank...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Realty, Religion and Belief, Services and Shopping, Real Estate
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After record growth, Maryland cruise terminal at capacity
Seven years after opening the South Locust Point cruise ship berth and terminal, Maryland port officials have a problem: capacity, as in, not enough. Without expansion, the record-breaking annual statistics will plateau at about 100 cruises and 241,000...
Tags: Port of Baltimore, Carnival Cruise Lines, Basketball, Sailing, Cruises
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Writers' Theatre season includes 'Gabler'
Kate Fry will star as Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" as part of the 2013-14 season at Writers' Theatre Chicago. Kimberly Senior will direct the new production of the famously passionate drama for a January opening. The fall at Writers' Theatre, located...Tags: Henrik Ibsen, Arts and Culture, Authors
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P3 proponent under scrutiny
Staff WriterIf there is one company wishing to fund the much-needed Calexico West Port of Entry expansion, that company is Kinsell Newcomb & de Dios. In doing so, the Carlsbad-based investment banking firm has gone before the Imperial County Board of Supervisors,...Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Contracts, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Google Inc.
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PASSINGS: Jim Sweeney, Ira Rubin, Guy Tozzoli
Jim Sweeney Coach transformed Fresno State football Jim Sweeney, 83, who called Fresno State "a sleeping giant" when he arrived as its football coach in 1976 and then awakened the university — and the region — with 19 years of...
Tags: Regional Authority, Oakland Raiders, Electronics, Science and Technology, Battery Park
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New port cranes begin to shoulder load at Seagirt
The manufacturers of Asia just got a lot closer to Baltimore.
Four massive cranes at the Seagirt Marine Terminal began writing the next chapter in the region's maritime history Thursday morning as they started unloading a 981-foot cargo ship laden...Tags: Port of Baltimore, Inner Harbor, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Science and Technology, Company Privatization
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