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Prepared text of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's State of the City Address 2013

2013-02-11 11:39:00

Mr. President, Madam Comptroller, Senators and Delegates, members of the City Council, clergy, colleagues in public service, committed people of Baltimore—thank you for the opportunity to report on the progress of our city and to renew our...

Thinking big about how to renew Sparrows Point manufacturing

2012-12-15 12:19:38

Here's what I'm thinking: We get La Famille DeBeaufre to establish a second bakery in Sparrows Point and ship their beloved Berger Cookies all over the world — to China, India, Brazil, Mexico and other nations with rising economies. And maybe we...

The port: Baltimore's gateway to opportunity

2012-10-24 12:11:00

With each passing week, the Port of Baltimore, the region and the entire state of Maryland edge closer to an opportunity that will give our market a major advantage in the competition for jobs and economic development. The expansion of the Panama Canal,...

City train yard tentatively selected as site of port transfer station

2012-09-11 20:25:00

The state, city and CSX Transportation have tentatively selected the Mount Clare train yard in Southwest Baltimore for a roughly $90 million facility where containerized cargo would be transferred from trucks to trains, a project designed to improve the...

In bikini battle, it's O.C. vs. China

2012-08-22 09:50:00

This weekend's world record attempt in Ocean City will really need to bring on the bikinis. By the thousands. The centerpiece of the town's first-ever Uptown Bash set for this weekend is a bikini parade where O.C. planned to break a record set by...

Captain Carl F. Keener, bay pilot

2012-08-05 13:27:43

Capt. Carl F. Keener, a retired Chesapeake Bay pilot and World War II Navy veteran, died July 25 from complications of a lung infection at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The longtime Timonium resident was 87. Carl Franklin Kenner was born in...

Balto. Co. hopes to take advantage of port expansion

2012-05-30 17:55:38

With the Sparrows Point steel mill preparing for a shutdown next week and a possible sale, Baltimore County officials began looking Wednesday for ways to redevelop the peninsula, bringing new jobs and businesses to the area around the ailing plant. In...

Giant cranes arrive in port, marking new era for cargo handling

2012-06-20 17:45:00

The future of the port of Baltimore eased through the morning haze Wednesday, limboed under the Bay Bridge with room to spare, ducked under the Key Bridge and arrived dockside at Seagirt Marine Terminal just in time for dinner. Fourteen stories tall...

Baltimore's high-end coffee scene is not your average Joe

2012-01-23 09:07:00

Armed with score sheets to rate nine coffee samples, barista Allie Caran holds court in the morning quiet of Woodberry Kitchen's normally bustling dining room. At the farm-to-table restaurant's free Friday coffee "cupping," she guides visitors as they...

New shipping service to boost port container traffic by 10%

2011-12-21 16:34:00

One of the world's largest container companies chose Baltimore over other East Coast cities as its first U.S. stop for direct shipping from Northern Europe after a long courtship by Maryland officials and private business leaders. The service by Hapag-...

To boost Baltimore and the region, support the port

2012-01-24 11:30:00

As we talk to business leaders about ways to grow the Baltimore region's economy and ask where they see the greatest opportunities, the Port of Baltimore is mentioned at the top of everyone's list. Throughout the nation's recent economic challenges,...

'The Amazing Race' recap: 'We are Charlie Chaplin'

2011-12-05 09:42:00

Remember last week? When there were waffles? And some cars and boats, but mostly waffles!? Now there are four teams racing to the finale, and this week I get to introduce you to the friendliest taxi drivers in the world. First, we must bid farewell to...

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at wooden houses in the El Chorrillo neighborhood of Panama City. More than seventy wooden homes were set on fire by unknown causes, leaving more that one hundred people homeless. There were no reports of injuries or deaths so far, according to local media.

2013-05-22 00:00:00

Gene and Marilyn O'Rourke of Corona del Mar and Paul and Darlene Kuhn of Newport Beach recently cruised through the Panama Canal on the Coral Princess.

2013-05-13 09:58:00

Lisa Flack of Lighthouse Point fights the 450-pound black marlin in Panama that gave her a Billfish Royal Slam,

2013-05-09 00:00:00