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Baltimore City Elections
Sep 8 2011 - 6:59pm
The Baltimore city primary is fast approaching. The mayoral candidates have been busy touting their ideas to lower an unemployment rate that’s the highest in the state. WYPR’s Matt Purdy spoke to the campaigns and filed this report.
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Sep 8 2011 - 6:57pm
The city’s First councilmanic district literally covers the waterfront. Stretching from Harbor East to the Port of Baltimore and north through Patterson Park, the area is set apart from other communities by solid employment numbers and housing values. WYPR’s Melody Simmons filed this report about the three Democrats competing to lead the district on the City Council.
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Sep 8 2011 - 6:55pm
Bill Cosby lent his celebrity to the Baltimore mayoral primary contest this week as he campaigned for Democratic challenger Otis Rolley. Joining Rolley at a rally on Wednesday, Cosby discussed why the 37-year-old city planner is the best choice for Charm City and reflected on the city’s history and challenges. WYPR’s Raven Hill was at a rally on the campus of Coppin State University yesterday and filed this report.
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Sep 8 2011 - 10:40am
This hour we continue our mayoral candidates week, in a final interview with Otis Rolley, a democrat who is challenging incumbent Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in the primary next Tuesday. A recent Baltimore Sun poll shows Rawlings-Blake with a commanding lead over her opponents. In an effort to close th...
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Sep 8 2011 - 8:18am
Baltimore's Mayoral candidates have spent the last couple months squabbling about issues such as crime, property taxes, and the just-finished Grand Prix. But as WYPR's Joel McCord reports, there is another issue to be addressed: the condition of the city's schools...
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Sep 7 2011 - 6:28pm
A mere 4,000 Baltimore voters cast ballots during the first three days of early voting. Five fully-staffed polling places, open from 10 o’clock in the morning to 8 in the evening, handled this trickle of voters. Meanwhile, taxpayers are expected to get a bill running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars for all six days of early voting. WYPR’s Mike Adams went to a couple of the polling stations and filed this report.
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Sep 7 2011 - 10:47am
The Federal Transit Administration has given the go-ahead for Baltimore’s proposed Red Line addition to the light rail system to begin the preliminary engineering phase. What effect could Baltimore’s next mayor have on when we’ll be able to get on board–literally?What impact do those pain...
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Sep 6 2011 - 12:15pm
Baltimore's Democratic mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, seeking election to that office for the first time, kicks off our final series of one-on-one interviews of candidates prior to next week's city primary....
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Sep 6 2011 - 8:44am
In Baltimore, four political neophytes are competing to unseat 8th district City Councilwoman Helen Holton. They cite the area’s widespread vacant houses, poverty and meager incentives for business owners as key reasons why Holton should be ousted. WYPR’s Shernay Williams spoke with each candidate and filed this report.
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Sep 2 2011 - 10:11am
How the issue of property taxes is playing out in the Mayoral election, work not for cash but for tickets, and author Isabel Wilkerson on the Great Migration....
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 5:05am
The Baltimore City Council approved Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s $2.4 billion operating...
Monday, June 17, 2013 - 6:35am
WYPR's Fraser Smith and Scott Calvert of the Baltimore Sun talk about how the City Council is...




