Category: Baltimore News

Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler and Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden March 28 asked Google and Apple to ban smartphone applications that allow drivers to share the location of drunken driving checkpoints. The two state top lawyers have joined the growing chorus of lawmakers who claim the software helps users avoid law enforcement efforts to […]

The Baltimore City Council swiftly approved Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s redistricting map during the March 28 city council meeting, despite nays from Jim Kraft, D-1, Belinda Conaway, D-7, and Carl Stokes, D-12. Councilmembers planned to return the map drawing table if state-issued prison numbers resulted in overpopulated districts, but the figures, released last week, documented only […]

Flanked by her husband, Anthony “Bubba” Green, Nancy Green sat behind a long, narrow table before several members of the Maryland Public Service Commission, telling the gruesome story of how her daughter Deanna was killed by stray electricity. “Deanna didn’t touch a live wire or an electrical box,” she said, fighting back tears. “We live […]

At first glance, Lance Lucas does not quite fit the bill of the head of a technology firm. Neither does he resemble the typical definition of a social activist. However, the 35-year-old Coppin State University graduate has worked in both arenas and is not bashful about his success. The founder and CEO of Digit All […]

A heavily amended bill to place a statue of Harriet Tubman in the Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol was passed unanimously on March 28 by the Maryland Senate. “Maryland had a unique opportunity to replace a slaveholder with a slave, a white man with a Black woman, a colonial figure with a Civil War […]

Leaked documents that reveal Councilwoman Belinda Conaway, D-7, owns a home in Randallstown have many questioning whether she lives in Baltimore City. Under city charter rules, city councilpersons are mandated to reside within the district they represent, but according to a deed leaked by political blogger and city council aspirant Adam Meister, Conaway may have […]

State lawmakers might repeal a rule that ensures Black and woman-owned businesses are awarded a set percentage of state contracts. The bill – which cleared the House last week – is polarizing the minority business community. Since 2006, Maryland law has required state agencies to allocate 7 percent of contract funds to qualified Black businesses, […]

WASHINGTON — A federal roadblock has stopped Maryland short of counting all prison inmates at their pre-incarceration addresses in order to draw political boundaries. An appeal for the addresses has been made to the U.S. Department of Justice, said Andrew Ratner, a representative for the Maryland Department of Planning. But because the Baltimore City charter […]

City budget analysts say the tax hikes, fee increases and other revenue enhancement measures adopted last year to fill the city’s multi-million budget gap have failed to stream in $16.8 million in anticipated cash. The 13 measures, including income and parking tax increases and a contentious bottle levy, were expected to bring in $48 million […]

A couple of weeks ago Baltimore City Del. Keiffer Mitchell openly wept on the floor of the House while the Maryland Gay Marriage Bill – that he introduced – was being debated. Mitchell, a first-year delegate but a veteran of Baltimore politics, said the tears began to flow when his colleague Del. Luke Clippinger “came […]

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While the thought of more than 10,000 elementary school-aged children moving at the same time might seem a tad foreboding, the March 24 simultaneous exercise event in 26 Maryland schools is being carefully orchestrated and is just what the doctor ordered – for 15 minutes, that is. The event is simply the way the American […]