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Tags: Halethorpe, Manufacturing and Engineering, Carl Stokes, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Distilling and Brewing Industry

Liquor stores in neighborhoods seek commercial rezoning

Some north Baltimore wine and liquor stores may have found a way around a proposed Baltimore City zoning change that could eventually ban them from the residential neighborhoods in which they are located. Several stores in the Hampden and Charles...

Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Marketing, Hampden, Charles Village, Sales

Religious groups pushing for city stormwater fee reduction

The two Catholic parishes led by the Rev. Robert Wojtek could pay more than $6,000 in new city stormwater fees later this year — an amount equal to an entire Sunday collection at his Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Highlandtown. To Wojtek, that...

Tags: Christianity, Business, Carroll County (Maryland), Politics, Bernard C. Young

Shootings get city's summer off to violent start

First a bicyclist was hit by a stray bullet last Sunday afternoon on Kirk Avenue. Then a man was shot in his car several blocks away on East 32nd Street near Lake Montebello early Monday. A half-mile from there, a man police were trying to question...

Tags: Daniel Webster, Crime, Law and Justice, Cherry Hill, Human Interest, Car Safety Tips and Advice

Council members seek ban on cellphone 'reverse vending machines'

Faced with a rash of reported mobile device thefts, local lawmakers want to ban the automated purchasing kiosks that have cropped up at area shopping centers and allow customers to instantly resell phones, tablets and music players. The proposals have...

Tags: David Marks, Theft, Local Government, Bill Henry, Bernard C. Young

Council to consider mayor's proposed pension changes

With the city retirement system short hundreds of millions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, officials say they are likely to begin requiring municipal employees to contribute to their pensions. "Pretty much everyone is in agreement that it's fair,"...

Tags: Civil and Public Service, Government, Local Government, Pension and Welfare, Politics

Baltimore water bills could rise by 15 percent

Customers of Baltimore's water system would see their water bills go up 15 percent — more than expected — under a proposal the Department of Public Works announced Monday. The projected rate hike follows years of increases and will bring a...

Tags: Consumers, Personal Income, Water Supply, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Some push for Edwards to be permanent schools CEO

Education observers were split Tuesday on whether the city's school board should launch a nationwide search to replace schools CEO Andrés Alonso or give the job of taking on the district's daunting challenges to his hand-picked successor. Some, such as...

Tags: Baltimore County, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Corporate Officers, Local Government

Good intentions don't create jobs

Baltimore City Council members confused caring about unemployment with abating it by giving preliminary approval to a local hire law last week. The legislation, which requires a final vote and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's signature to become law,...

Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Legislation, The New York Times, Business, Local Government

Councilwoman challenges city's stormwater fee plan

A city councilwoman is challenging Baltimore's plan to charge businesses some of the highest stormwater fees in the state — and divert some of the money that had gone to Chesapeake Bay cleanup to help fund property tax cuts. Councilwoman Mary...

Tags: Laura Neuman, Business, Judges, Local Government, Politics

Action in Maturity to mark 40th anniversary

Esther Bonnet, 100, is always thinking about new plans for Action in Maturity — as she has since she co-founded the transportation service for seniors more than 40 years ago. During a recent visit from Elizabeth Briscoe, AIM's executive director,...

Tags: Govans, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Hampden, Health, MedStar Health

Billboard companies object to proposed city tax

Area billboard companies are speaking out against a proposed tax introduced this week by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. In a hearing before the City Council's taxation committee Thursday, the global billboard firm Clear Channel Outdoor offered to give...

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