BALTIMORE – All it took Tumara Jordan was a few seconds to decide what to get her mother Peggy as a retirement gift for 35 years as a nurse educator at Baltimore City Community College. “Education has always mattered to everyone in our family,” Tumara said. “It’s been one of the single most important things.” […]
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Baltimore Woman Welcomes 104th Year of Life
Alice Colbert, born Aug. 3, 1906, in Baltimore, is living an exceptionally full life. The spry centenarian has watched her family flourish with five generations and she has traveled to Panama, Mexico, Italy and England. At 104 years old, Colbert still holds fast to traditions she garnered as a young woman – attending church, baking […]
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Baltimore Meets 50 Million-Pound (of Waste) Challenge
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake recently visited Edmondson Village to celebrate Baltimoreans who have recycled 50,000,000 pounds of waste since the start of One PLUS ONE collections last July. Flanked by huge pallets of recycled materials at the Edgewood/Lyndhurst Recreation Center, Mayor Rawlings-Blake praised residents who helped the city reach this impressive achievement. “We could not have […]
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Who Will Be the Voice for the Black District on the Council
Baltimore County Council of Maryland is divided into seven districts of roughly 108,000 residents each. The Fourth District was created eight years ago as a majority minority district after the 2000 Census count. It includes the Liberty Road communities – Woodlawn, Lochearn, Milford Mill, Windsor Mill, Randallstown, Granite, Woodstock, Reisterstown – and the New Town […]
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Local ACLU Files Information Request for FBI Records
Offices of the American Civil Liberties Union in 29 states, including Maryland and the District of Columbia, filed Freedom of Information Act requests on July 27 to have access to records compiled by the FBI in accordance with its Domestic Intelligence and Operations Guide issued to agents. The ACLU says the collection of race and […]
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James Frazier Joins Mercy Medical Center
Mercy Medical Center recently welcomed Dr. James L. Frazier to its Central Maryland Neurosurgical Associates’ Department of Neurosurgery. Frazier, who previously served at the Department of Neurological Surgery at Johns Hopkins University, brings a wide range of expertise to his new position. After graduating from Brown University in Rhode Island, Frazier obtained his medical degree […]
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Reporter’s Book Signing
If passion is your pleasure and you still believe in love, then Baltimore resident and radio personality Harold Fisher had a treat for readers of his new romance novel. The WHUR Radio news reporter held his first Baltimore book signing for debut novel, Two Weeks until the Rest of my Life, at the Reginald F. […]
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Slots Finally
After a two-year wait Marylanders will finally start to get the gaming terminals they overwhelmingly voted for in 2008. On Sept. 30, Perryville in Cecil County will launch with 1,500 machines in a new facility, according to Donald Fry, chair of the Video Lottery Facilities Location Commission that has responsibility for determining the location and […]
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First African-American Woman Appointed to Maryland Appellate Court
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) has appointed Michele D. Hotten to the Court of Special Appeals for the Fourth Appellate Circuit in Prince George’s County, making her the first African-American woman to be appointed to an appellate court in that state. Hotten was born on April 20, 1954 in Washington, D.C., where she also grew […]
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The Numbers Game (Pt. 1)
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley began his political ascendancy during the 1990s by challenging the crime numbers of the Baltimore City Police Department when he was one of three councilmen in the old Third District of Baltimore City. O’Malley argued the department’s crime statistics, specifically homicides and shootings, just didn’t add up and the burgeoning politician […]
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Four Arrested in Rape Investigation
Four Morgan State University students and alumni have been identified as the alleged rapists of an unidentified woman on June 30. Police arrested Renard James, 30, Dante Green, 24, Dale Lawton, 23, and Howard Cook Smith, 21, on July 19. They are charged with eight counts of sex offense, assault, perverted practice and conspiracy charges […]
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Ideal Bank Closes
The collapse of Wall Street, which spurred an epic economic recession, has claimed its 88th victim in the banking industry. Baltimore’s Ideal Federal Savings Bank was closed on July 9 by the Office of Thrift Supervision and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was appointed receiver. The Black-owned institution, which opened its doors in 1920 and was […]