Via Foxbaltimore.com Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown will join Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Rep. John Sarbanes at the ceremony on held today. The ceremony honor veterans in Baltimore. State and local officials  are expected to attend. Read More. Walmart Workers Cry Foul Over ‘Black Friday’ Hours Police: Stepfather Fatally Struck Boy, 3, While “Play Boxing” Victory […]

Via FoxBaltimore.com The city-wide controversy over the Mayor’s decision to spend 650 thousand on telephones and tech support continues to escalate. New information in regard to department heads responsible for the financial move is  now under scrutiny. Read Full Story and video  here

Via FoxBaltimore.com Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake plans to sign into law an increased bottle tax to fix Baltimore City schools. The bottle tax will increase from two cents per bottle to five cents per bottle. Many small business owners are against  the law as they believe it will force residents to ship in the suburbs. […]

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Via Fox 45 Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake received preliminary approval from the city council to proceed with the controversial bottle tax.  City officisals plan to raise the bottle tax from 2 cents to 5 cents and profits will go toward the remodelling of Baltimore City Schools.  While this may seem to be a great idea, local merchants beg to differ… […]

Via: Foxbaltimore.com The average sentence for illegally wearing, carrying, or transporting a firearm reached 13 months, up from the average 4 months over the past several years. The average sentence for felony gun offenders doubled from 2009 to 63 months. In 2011, Baltimore recorded the lowest number of homicides in over 30 years. Click here […]

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was sworn in Tuesday at downtown’s War Memorial monument. This will be the Mayor’s first full-term at Mayor of Baltimore City.

DENVER —Michael B. Hancock has been elected the new mayor of Denver. Hancock served two terms as Denver City Council President and was the youngest CEO of an Urban League chapter in the country. The Root reports: Hancock, who was raised by a single mother, grew up in abject poverty with nine siblings. Despite his […]

William Donald Schaefer is back to his beloved Baltimore. He is currently lying in state at the rotunda of Baltimore’s City Hall. Yesterday after a short ceremony, mourners were allowed to begin filing in to City Hall. Hundreds of spectators lined Fayette Street to pay their final respects. If you would like to pay your […]

Photo by Mark L. Dennis Via: wbaltv.com Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake delivered her second State of the City address Monday. The mayor called for the city to tackle its budget problems head-on, even if it means having a different way of doing business. Rawlings-Blake said she wants to end the year-after-year cycle of deficits and put the […]

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Via: Baltimore Sun According to Fundraiser Colleen Martin-Lauer, Maoyr Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has approximately $800,000 in the bank. It’s reported that the Mayor raised $600,000 at last week’s an event held at The Hippodrome. More details will be made available Thursday when campaign finance reports are made public. According to the Baltimore Sun, Martin-Lauer, who also […]