Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is happy to consider a plan to sell the city-owned Hilton Baltimore but believes there are significant hurdles to that actually happening, according to a spokesman. On Monday, City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young submitted a ...

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Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake climbed onto the deck of an abandoned row house in Tuesday’s sweltering summer heat and promised that “better is coming” as she promoted the restoration of a blighted block not far from where riots broke out ...

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Fighting Baltimore’s heroin epidemic will require expanding access to treatment, including making sure addiction resources are available 24 hours per day, city officials say. That means creating specialized emergency room that caters specifically to patients with substance abuse and mental-health ...

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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said she continues to be disappointed in Gov. Larry Hogan’s decision to kill the Red Line light rail transportation program. The mayor and other officials, in a six-page letter, have asked Hogan to reconsider the project. “A ...

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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Tuesday she's still holding out hope that the Red Line lightrail project can be saved.

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Gov. Larry Hogan’s decision to kill the proposed Red Line light rail route through Baltimore has left the city’s mass transit plans in the lurch. William Johnson, director of the Baltimore Department of Transportation, said the city now has to ...

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As the Vacants to Value initiative approaches its fifth anniversary, the program that was touted at its outset as a bold new approach to addressing city-owned blight in Baltimore is now viewed as a useful, if not game-changing, tool to ...

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Baltimore officials touted the city’s efforts to help businesses recover in the aftermath of last month’s riots. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Baltimore Development Corp. President William Cole held a news conference Tuesday at the Southeast Anchor Library of the Enoch ...

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The Grow Baltimore Initiative’s research into why people choose to live in or leave Baltimore reinforced much of what was already known about those motives, but also found some surprises in the data. In 2011, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced her ...

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A grant from the City Accelerator Initiative will help Baltimore promote community engagement among the recently incarcerated. The initiative, funded by the Citi Foundation and the nonprofit Living Cities, provides funding to promote innovation in local government. Baltimore is one ...

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