The city’s Board of Finance Monday approved the sale of up to $36 million in tax increment financing bonds to allow construction of the $1 billion Harbor Point development to begin.

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A judge has dismissed the lawsuit filed by Baltimore City Comptroller Joan Pratt over Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s plan to work with Rockville-based Digicon Corp. to install an Internet-based phone system for city employees.

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After Baltimore City Comptroller Joan Pratt once again called for the city to award a contract for phone upgrades to IBM and Avaya instead of Digicon Corp., City Solicitor George A. Nilson held out the possibility that the contract could “conceivably” go to a third bidder.

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Attorneys for Baltimore Comptroller Joan Pratt filed a second amended complaint last week in her lawsuit seeking to prevent Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake from continuing with her plans for an Internet-based phone system for city employees.

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Baltimore City Comptroller Joan Pratt urged the Board of Estimates on Wednesday to move forward with installing a new phone system by awarding a contract to IBM and Avaya.

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Baltimore’s Board of Estimates approved a land disposition agreement and ground lease for a new casino on the outskirts of the city near M&T Bank Stadium Wednesday that guarantees $11.2 million for the city in the first year.

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Comptroller Joan M. Pratt, emerging from a somnolent few years as the city’s money manager, now steps up as plaintiff in a suit against the administration of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake — City Hall, in other words.

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More than two dozen consultants in the Baltimore mayor’s information technology office work for a Rockville company that sold hundreds of thousands of dollars of phone-related equipment to the office under a no-bid contract. City Comptroller Joan Pratt raised concerns ...

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The historic art deco palace in north Baltimore known as the Senator Theatre has closed — for at least six months. When it reopens around Christmas time, it will have three new theaters, a restored main auditorium complete with comfy ...

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The city’s Board of Estimates will hold its annual Taxpayers’ Night on Wednesday beginning at 6 p.m. at the War Memorial Building near City Hall. The event is a public forum on the proposed 2013 budget of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, ...

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