Every day seems to bring more good news for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Every day, it seems, there’s a new candidate for mayor. The more the merrier, she may be thinking. State Sen. Catherine Pugh, in a fund-raising letter, says she’s ...

Tagged with: Baltimore baltimore city council baltimore mayor C. Fraser Smith candidates carl stokes Catherine Pugh city council Martin O'Malley Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake otis rolley peter o'malley Sheila Dixon U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski

With City Hall as a backdrop, Frank M. Conaway Sr. declared at noon on Monday his candidacy for mayor in what is looking like a crowded Democratic primary race on Sept. 13. Conaway, 78, a resident of Ashburton and the city’s ...

Tagged with: Baltimore baltimore mayor carl stokes circuit court city hall greater baltimore board of realtors house of delegates job creation joseph t. jody landers mayor Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake otis rolley superblock westport william donald schaefer

Saying he wants to reduce property taxes, fight crime and eliminate vacant dwellings in Baltimore, Joseph T. “Jody” Landers III threw his hat into the ring for mayor on Wednesday before nearly 75 supporters in Lauraville. Landers, a Democrat who ...

Tagged with: Baltimore baltimore mayor board of elections carl stokes Catherine Pugh city council city hall crime democrat greater baltimore board of realtors jody landers joseph t. jody landers Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake otis rolley property taxes william donald schaefer

While both sides await a ruling by a Baltimore City Circuit Court judge in a bitter court feud over the $1.5 billion redevelopment of State Center, the chief developer of the project said she remains committed to moving forward. Caroline ...

Tagged with: alan m. rifkin attorney Baltimore baltimore city circuit court carl stokes CEO city council Department of General Services developer Development lawsuit ruling state center

Two key reports on the current state of downtown Baltimore and what to do about it were issued last week – one by the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore and the other by the mayor’s task force on office vacancy rates. ...

Tagged with: Baltimore carl stokes city council Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Inc. EBDI maryland TIF

Two members of the Baltimore City Council plan to hold a hearing on preservation of the historic Read’s Drug Store as the controversy continues over the site of a civil rights lunch counter sit-in in 1955 in the midst of ...

Tagged with: Baltimore Baltimore Development Corporation carl stokes city council Development Urban Design and Architecture Review Panel

Members of the Baltimore City Council spent more than four hours Wednesday night asking questions they should have asked a long time ago. The answers they got from officials of East Baltimore Development Inc. weren’t always the answers the council ...

Tagged with: Baltimore carl stokes city council east baltimore development inc. EBDI Editorial hearing johns hopkins hospital maryland

Members of the Baltimore City Council, including Carl Stokes and President Bernard C. "Jack" Young, held a hearing Wednesday evening asking for explanations from officials at East Baltimore Development Inc. to issues raised in The Daily Record's five-month investigation of the nonprofit's plans to redevelop East Baltimore.

Tagged with: Baltimore baltimore city council Bernard C. "Jack" Young carl stokes city council daily record east baltimore east baltimore development inc. jack young Nonprofit video

Officials of East Baltimore Development Inc. promised a City Council committee Wednesday evening that they would operate with a renewed sense of transparency and communication about the finances and progress in economic development and new home construction as part of ...

Tagged with: Annie E. Casey Foundation Baltimore carl stokes city council community east baltimore development inc. EBDI Forest City-New East Baltimore Partnership hearing jobs johns hopkins hospital maryland middle east

A city task force examining the need for public subsidies to developers debated whether to hold businesses more accountable for those tax breaks through audits and increased transparency during a heated meeting Tuesday. The task force, formed by City Councilman ...

Tagged with: Baltimore Baltimore Development Corporation carl stokes city hall greater baltimore board of realtors Legg Mason maryland perry hall pilots subsidies task force Taxes TIF