Baltimore Department of Public Works seeks raise in water/sewer rates
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 23, 2012
Tags: baltimore department of public works, board of estimates, increase, rates, sewer, water
The Baltimore Department of Public Works on Wednesday told the Board of Estimates it needs to raise water and sewer rates for Baltimore City customers by 9 percent in order to meet numerous state and federal regulatory mandates, and to rehabilitate its aging infrastructure. The board will hold a hearing on the proposed increase on [...]
Flower power for the Preakness winner 
BY: Maria Zilberman
POSTED: May 17, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, black-eyed susans, Falcon Farms, flowers, horse, Kathleen Marvel, Mary Pat Walbrecher, maryland, Pimlico Race Course, Preakness Stakes, race, Susan G. Komen foundation, winner
Gathered behind a green cloth-covered table set prominently in front of the store, four Giant Food employees spent Thursday morning clipping stems and weaving a blanket of flowers. The flowers, which looked like Black-Eyed Susans, were actually Viking mums, a black-centered hybrid. The blanket, which took about eight hours to make and used 2,300 flowers, [...]
New Baltimore archbishop to be installed at Mass
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 16, 2012
Tags: archbishop carlo maria vigano, archbishop of baltimore, cardinal edwin o'brien, cathedral of mary our queen, maryland, pope benedict xvi, rev. william lori, roman catholics
Roman Catholics in Maryland are welcoming a new leader. Rev. William Lori will be installed as the 16th archbishop of Baltimore, the nation’s first diocese, at a Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen on Wednesday afternoon. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, Pope Benedict XVI’s representative to the United States, will be among the more [...]
New GBC Chair Rogers wants to nurture local firms
BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: May 15, 2012
Tags: Brian C. Rogers, chairman and CEO of T. Rowe Price Group Inc., convention center, Donald C. Fry, Greater Baltimore Committee, Inner Harbor, merck, northrop grumman, Under Armour
Saying he hopes to sharpen the city and region’s competitiveness, Brian C. Rogers, chairman and CIO of T. Rowe Price Group Inc., was named on Monday as the new chairman of the Greater Baltimore Committee. Rogers took over at the annual meeting of the GBC, held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel before a crowd of [...]
C. Fraser Smith: Bealefeld’s exit underscores City Hall losses
BY: C. Fraser Smith
POSTED: May 14, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, C. Fraser Smith, city hall, frederick h. bealefeld III, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake, police commissioner, retired
He was pushed. He hasn’t said it, but Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III was escaping what he felt was an antagonistic attitude in City Hall when he recently announced his retirement. There was family pressure to leave, but the work atmosphere had become intolerable. And not just for him. Bealefeld’s departure was merely the most [...]
Preakness gets ready to party down
BY: Capital News Service
POSTED: May 13, 2012
Tags: Business, horse, maryland, Maryland Jockey Club, Pimlico Race Course, Preakness, racing, Slots, stakes, Tom Chuckas
The 2012 Preakness will feature Grammy Award-winning artists, all-you-can-drink beer, and a “party manimal” with a unicorn-man sidekick. Oh, and a horse race. Four years after organizers failed to transform Maryland’s most famous race into a family-friendly event, the Preakness is stepping up efforts to preserve its self-proclaimed “best party in Baltimore” status. “We’ve always [...]
Propane-powered taxis take to Baltimore streets
BY: Melody Simmons
POSTED: May 11, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, checker, city hall, comptroller peter franchot, councilwoman rochelle "rikki" spector, ford crown victoria, mark joseph, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake, national security, propane tanks, remington, sen. ben cardin, state sen. catherine pugh, taxis, veolia transportation, yellow
Baltimore’s first taxi cabs fueled with propane — estimated to save local cabbies $3 million a year in fuel costs — hit the streets Friday. Funded in part through a $300 million federal stimulus grant awarded to the national Clean Cities Program, Veolia Transportation is outfitting a fleet of 50 new Ford Crown Victoria sedans [...]
Dullahan passing on Preakness, will await Belmont
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 11, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, horse, kentucky derby, maryland, Preakness, race
DES MOINES, Iowa — The owners of third-place Kentucky Derby finisher Dullahan say the colt won’t be running in the Preakness Stakes on May 19. Donegal Racing managing partner Jerry Crawford says Friday that Dullahan will run next in the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the Triple Crown races, on June 9. Dullahan closed [...]
Revival at Inner Harbor blooms
BY: Maria Zilberman
POSTED: May 10, 2012
Tags: BRIO Tuscan Grille, bubba gump shrimp, Christopher S. Schardt, Four Seasons Hotel, harbor east, harborplace, Inner Harbor, j. paul's, johnny rockets, light street pavilion, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake, McCormick World of Flavors, nik wallenda, Phillips Seafood Restaurant, ripley's believe it or not, star-spangled sailabration, the gallery, tom noonan, visit baltimore, war of 1812
The Inner Harbor’s revival is starting to come to fruition as the curtain lifts on the biggest changes at the Light Street Pavilion since it opened three decades ago. Several new restaurants and attractions will open in the pavilion this summer, and some, like Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. and Johnny Rockets, already have. The changes [...]
ABAG’s Nelson to retire in December
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: May 10, 2012
Tags: ABAG, Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers, Baltimore, Betsy Nelson, charity, foundations, grantmakers, institutional giving, The Daily Record
Betsy Nelson, who has served as president of the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers since 1990, said she will step down from the post in December. The organization, founded in 1983, has grown under Nelson’s tenure to more than 135 private and community foundations, donor-advised funds and corporations with strategic grantmaking programs, representing the majority [...]
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