Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

February 27, 2013

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is rolling out a ten-year plan to keep Baltimore financially solvent over the next ten years. The plan includes a trash pick-up fee, city pension reform, and a reduction in the property tax.

February 12, 2013

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake delivered the annual State of the City address yesterday afternoon at City Hall. Her message was simple: "We cannot build the foundation of a growing city on the mud of a fiscal swamp. The status quo is unacceptable, and the price of inaction is clear. We must change to grow."

On October 17, WYPR's Tom Hall interviewed Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake as part of the city's annual cultural town hall meeting. One of the main topics was how to find sources of funding when the economy is in bad shape. Mayor Rawlings-Blake said the city does what it can--but that other institutions are imporant to maintaining these projects. 

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is sitting down to a Board of Estimates meeting this morning with Comptroller Joan Pratt. It’s the first one since Comptroller Pratt filed a lawsuit against the mayor’s administration to stop her from moving forward with her plan to replace city phones.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has proposed her own plan to deal with the vacants in Baltimore.  It’s called Vacants to Value, and she launched it in November 2010.  The program focuses on selling the vacants in specific transitioning neighborhoods. 

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake unveiled her Vacants to Value initiative in November 2010. The mayor’s goal is to rehabilitate more than 1,000 vacant buildings in targeted neighborhoods with program. Now, 18 months later after its launch, she joins us to talk about how far the program has come towards its goal.

It’s time for our annual rundown of the Maryland Film Festival

Baltimore's mayor joins Dan in studio to weigh in on President Obama's State of the Union address and take listener calls about the state of the city.

Dan analyzes Tuesday's primary results this hour with guests, C. Fraser Smith, WYPR senior news analyst, Julie Scharper, City Hall reporter for the Baltimore Sun, Edward Ericson Jr., reporter for the City Paper and Maryland Public Television correspondent Charles Robinson.