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Baltimore City Council Proposes City-Wide Plastic Bag Tax
Originally published June 14, 2013

Baltimore may soon have a tax on plastic bags, if city council members have their way.more More Arrow
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Baltimore 7th Annual Summer Food Service Program
Baltimore Mayor Rawlings-Blake Kicks Off 7th Annual Summer Food Service Program
by Blair Adams
June 14, 2013 - Baltimore children can receive a nutritional breakfast and lunch five days a week during the summer months, if they decide to participate in a food program starting June 17more More Arrow

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
Mayor Rawlings-Blake Won’t Sign Local Hiring Bill
by Krishana Davis
June 12, 2013 - A city council bill to mandate the hiring of Baltimore residents appears poised to take effect June 24. The measure, sponsored by City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young, will require contractors with $300,000 in city contracts or $5 million in city subsidies to hire Baltimore residents for 51 percent of all new jobs. more More Arrow

State Center Project, Baltimore, MD
State Center Project Stuck in Court by Lawsuit
by Zenitha Prince
June 12, 2013 - Development of the $1.5 billion State Center in midtown Baltimore has been stymied by litigation since a group of downtown landlords and business owners, led by Orioles owner Peter G. Angelos, filed a lawsuit in December 2010 claiming the project would create unfair competition and impair downtown’s already hobbling economy.more More Arrow

Jeffrey R. Segal
Mayor Appoints Jeffrey R. Segal as Interim City Fire Chief
by Blair Adams
June 12, 2013 - As of July 29, Jeffrey R. Segal will settle in as the Baltimore City Fire Department’s acting Fire Chief.more More Arrow

And the Church said Amen.
A Royal Tribute for Rev. Harold Carter
by Joseph Green-Bishop and Larry A. McMillan
June 12, 2013 - Every moment of the 48 years that Pastor Harold A. Carter Sr. spent preaching to, and adoring, the people of the New Shiloh Baptist Church in Baltimore was engagingly returned to him in abundance by thousands of mourners who came out in a torrential rain storm on June 9 to say goodbye and “we love you” to a man who was considered by many one of the greatest preachers in America.more More Arrow

Morgan’s Veteran Engineering School Dean, Eugene DeLoatch.
Morgan’s Veteran Engineering School Dean Celebrated
by Blair Adams
June 12, 2013 - On June 1, Morgan State University engineering school dean was the object of affection at the Baltimore Hyatt recently. While, to a casual observer, it looked the eating, drinking and speechmaking was for Eugene DeLoatch’s retirement party. more More Arrow

University of Maryland Dean Phoebe A. Haddon.
UM Law Dean Phoebe Haddon Steps Down
by Alex Likowski, University of Maryland
June 12, 2013 - Dean Phoebe A. Haddon, JD, LLM, announced to faculty at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law June 7 that she has informed University of Maryland, Baltimore President Jay A. Perman, MD, that she will not seek a renewal of her current contract. She plans to step down as dean at the end of the 2013 - 2014 academic year. After a sabbatical to focus on a research project on contemporary challenges in legal education, she will return to the Maryland law faculty and to teaching.more More Arrow

Arc’s ‘Foster Parent of the Year’ Award recipient, Jane Lawson.
Baltimorean Receives Arc’s ‘Foster Parent of the Year’ Award
by AFRO Staff
June 12, 2013 - Baltimore resident Jane Lawson was recently honored by The Arc Baltimore as “Foster Parent of the Year.” more More Arrow

Dr. Homer Favor and the Rev. Dr. William Calhoun with the late Rev. Harold Carter, Sr.
Founding Member of Baltimore’s ‘Goon Squad’ Passes
by Alexis Taylor
June 12, 2013 - Baltimoreans and members of the Civil Rights Movement nationwide are mourning the death of original “Goon Squad” member, Dr. Homer Eli Favor.more More Arrow

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