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Week in review: 7/15/11
Restaurant plan suffers setback Redevelopment of the long-abandoned Chesapeake Restaurant in Baltimore‘s Station North Arts District is still on track despite a key restaurateur’s rejection of the $16 million project, city […]
Top court upholds Holton’s bribery dismissal
Saying “at last justice has prevailed,” Baltimore City Councilwoman Helen L. Holton praised Maryland‘s top court late Wednesday for declining to reinstate criminal charges that she had committed bribery, and […]
New development in Annapolis, Pierce’s Park and tidbits
Annapolis Mayor Joshua J. Cohen is pushing legislation to streamline the review process for new development. The action was unveiled this week in the capital city and is being touted […]
Settling into a teachable moment with Baltimore police
George Nilson had had enough. Enough of the same kinds of police misconduct allegations year after year, enough fix-it talk without follow-up within his Baltimore City Law Department, and perhaps […]
Melody Simmons’ real estate notebook
The Strata Group this week formed a foreclosure unit that will specialize in “all aspects of transforming bank-owned properties into assets for homebuyers and investors in Central Maryland.” The group […]
Pugh dances into Baltimore mayoral race
State Sen. Catherine Pugh literally danced her way into the city’s mayoral race Monday evening. As disco music blared and nearly 150 supporters jammed inside a community center on West […]
Jury awards $50K to man tased by police
A Baltimore jury has awarded $50,000 to a man who was stunned with a Taser outside his East Side home three years ago when he refused to fully submit to […]
Stagnant legal market tough for recent law school grads
When most of the class of 2011 applied for law school, the legal market was booming. But by the time they embarked on their legal education in the fall of […]
Fraser Smith: Time to step up in Baltimore mayor’s race
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. […]
Bealefeld: Training, leadership can cut settlement losses
Facing tough questions about the cost of police misconduct litigation at a Baltimore City Council budget hearing Tuesday afternoon, Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III suggested the department’s “unprecedented” and […]
Baltimore public works promises billing changes
In the wake of water meter complaints, Baltimore‘s Department of Public Works is promising an overhaul. At a City Council hearing Tuesday, Public Works Director Alfred Foxx announced preliminary plans […]
Editorial: The legacy of William Donald Schaefer
The adjectives have flowed freely following the death of William Donald Schaefer: mercurial, demanding, indomitable, irascible, autocratic, quirky, impatient, impossible, insufferable, inspiring, extraordinary. Each is accurate and yet each is […]
