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An ordinance to reauthorize a tax credit used to entice residents to purchase newly constructed homes will go before the Baltimore City Council next week.
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Read More »Amazon due for tax break
The Baltimore Development Corp. plans to ask the City Council to approve a resolution so the state can create a special tax zone on the site of a planned Amazon fulfillment center in Southeast Baltimore.
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Read More »Mayor draws the line: No Schmoking
She won’t wave the “Schmoke flag.” That’s how Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake responded Wednesday to a question about her stance on a budding debate in the General Assembly over decriminalizing marijuana in Maryland.
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Read More »12 companies to be honored by mayor
Twelve winners of the 39th annual Mayor’s Business Recognition Awards have been selected and will be presented with awards on Dec. 10 during a luncheon at the Baltimore Convention Center.
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Read More »Raises on tap for mayor, other top elected officials
Three members of Baltimore’s Board of Estimates — the mayor, the City Council president and the comptroller — will vote Wednesday on a proposal that would increase their pay by 2.5 percent on New Year’s Day.
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Read More »Superblock group fires back
The developers who pursued a massive, $150 million rejuvenation of downtown’s so-called Superblock say their lawsuit disputing this summer’s termination of their development agreement with the city should go ahead.
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Read More »Councilman to Harbor Point: Delay groundbreaking
A request to delay groundbreaking on the luxury Harbor Point project was made Friday by a city councilman who was forced to postpone a scheduled community meeting to address environmental concerns for the $1.8 billion development to go on top of contained toxic waste site because of the shutdown of the federal government.
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Read More »Wage bill affecting Wal-Mart dies in D.C.
WASHINGTON — An effort to require Wal-Mart and other large retailers to pay their employees a “living wage” of at least $12.50 an hour met its end Tuesday when the D.C. Council failed to override Mayor Vincent Gray’s veto. The ...
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Read More »Maryland Business: A courtesy code for City Council?
A week after the finale to a series of bruising public debates over a $1 billion waterfront development among the City Council and the public, a resolution that seeks a new era of civility at City Hall has been drawn ...
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Read More »Stokes: Tone of TIF hearings calls for courtesy code
A week after the finale to a series of bruising public debates over a $1 billion waterfront development among the City Council and the public, a resolution that seeks a new era of civility at City Hall has been drawn up for the council’s consideration.
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