Daisy Jackson has worked the small, cut-rate liquor store she owns at Eager Street and North Broadway since 1975. But all week, the 74-year-old was clearing out nearly a lifetime of memories at D and A Liquors as she prepares ...

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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 ...

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The Baltimore City Council will conduct a hearing Wednesday afternoon on the performance of the nonprofit East Baltimore Development Inc. as it enters a second decade redeveloping 88 acres north of Johns Hopkins Hospital. “Transparency is what I’m looking for,” ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew a little faster at the end of 2010 than the government had previously estimated, boosted by more inventory building and business investment in plants and equipment. But rising oil prices will likely limit growth ...

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The city Board of Estimates is expected to vote Wednesday on a request to use $300,000 in state general obligation bonds to help a private brain research institute affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University hire 60 employees in East Baltimore. ...

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WASHINGTON — Americans paid more for food and gas in February, as consumer prices rose at the fastest pace in nearly two years. The Consumer Price Index rose 0.5 percent in February, the largest increase since June 2009, the Labor ...

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WASHINGTON — Higher oil and food prices. Unemployment near 9 percent. Crises in the Middle East and Japan. The U.S. economy faces threats at home and abroad that have the potential to dull growth or stoke inflation. Or both. When ...

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A local marketing firm is asking certain employees of the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine if they would be willing to put down roots in the 88-acre area known as Middle East. The survey, designed by Carton Donofrio ...

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Call it the name game. Andrew B. Frank, special advisor on economic development to Johns Hopkins University’s president, Ronald J. Daniels, and a former deputy mayor, said Thursday that six possible names for the 88 acres of the Middle East ...

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Construction of a new public school in East Baltimore may be partially funded with Tax Increment Financing bonds earmarked for demolition of vacant row houses in Middle East, according to officials involved in the redevelopment. The $50 million East Baltimore ...

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