Category: Baltimore News

One of the “baby bears” in the Baltimore City political dynasty known as the Conaways has fallen. During primary elections this week, Councilwoman Belinda K. Conaway of the seventh district was unseated in a tight race against Verizon network engineer Nick Mosby. Preliminary tallies show Mosby won by 648 votes. Conaway —a veteran Baltimore City […]

Although incumbent Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake topped her challengers with over 50 percent of the vote in Baltimore City’s mayoral primary, some say the win “doesn’t mean much” since less than 25 percent of registered voters showed up. Just 22 percent of eligible Baltimore residents took to the polls in what was presumably the worst voter […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore Grand Prix fueled a 44 percent increase in revenue at a sampling of area hotels, city tourism officials said Thursday, but it won’t be clear for a while whether the event can fulfill organizers’ projections of a $70 million impact on the region over five years. The 11 hotels in the […]

What could be a more perfect metaphor for the end of the 2011 campaign for Mayor of Baltimore than the completion of the inaugural running of the Baltimore Grand Prix? I agree with the analysis of most who argued Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake took a huge risk scheduling an international road race a little more than […]

The chairman of the state’s video lottery commission says his panel chose to amend the minority and women-owned business participation goals for Baltimore City’s future slots parlor, not Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. “Despite media reports and public accusations to the contrary, the mayor and the City of Baltimore are not responsible for the decision,” Donald C. […]

Panelists from a local interfaith organization grilled Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and three of her leading Democratic challengers Aug. 25 about their commitment to youth opportunities and employment and their investment in uptown. Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD), which represents a reported 150 city congregations, hosted the mayoral forum inside the nation’s first Black Catholic […]

Baltimore City Councilwoman Rochelle “Rikki” Spector has been systematically re-elected to represent her Northwest Baltimore district for 30 years. “I wasn’t even born ,” said Curtis E. Jones, one of three Black candidates vying for Spector’s seat during this year’s election. Jones, a 26-year-old entertainment company head, says Spector has “slid her way” into office […]

Morgan Turner-Cohen, a senior at Baltimore Freedom Academy High School, says conditions at school are almost unbearable. “I have to sit in classrooms with mittens and gloves and a hat,” she said. “I shouldn’t have to do that to focus on my work, shivering, writing my numbers on my notepad.”? The Baltimore County-bred teenager moved […]

Charles Village residents and workers poured into the streets Tuesday afternoon as a 5.9 earthquake sent tremors up and down the East coast. Felt in New York City and as far south as North Carolina, for many this was a once in a lifetime encounter with Mother Nature. “I always wanted to go to California […]

CATONSVILLE, Md. (AP) — Baltimore County Schools Superintendent Joe Hairston is challenging school leaders to do a better job this school year even as the school system has cut nearly 200 teaching positions. The Baltimore Sun reports Hairston delivered his 12th annual speech to open the academic year Friday. Maryland’s third-largest school system opens Aug. […]