Michael Bloomberg

Johns Hopkins patients move into new $1.1 billion facility

2012-04-29 19:05:00

At the ding of a cowbell Sunday, staffers in a command center at the Johns Hopkins Hospital began clapping and yelling out victory cheers. Another department had begun to transfer patients as part of a massive move from Hopkins' aging hospital building...

Bloomberg joins Johns Hopkins in dedicating new hospital

2012-04-12 18:31:00

Michael Bloomberg's first donation to Johns Hopkins was $5, which he gave the year after he graduated in 1964 from the university with an engineering degree. The New York mayor now ranks as Hopkins' largest contributor, and possibly the largest donor...

Good afternoon, Baltimore: Thursday lunchtime lowdown

2012-04-12 09:09:00

ON THE SITE... Kamenetz proposes 2013 budget with no tax increases, no layoffs: Baltimore County executive plans to cut county work force 7 percent by attrition, grow budget 3 percent to absorb teacher pension costs. Man shot several times in East...

Justice for Trayvon, justice for the nation

2012-04-12 07:19:00

The arrest of George Zimmerman on charges of second-degree murder in the killing of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin does not mean that justice has been done. But it does provide the opportunity for justice — for a full presentation of the...

The NRA sticks to its (Florida) guns

2012-04-16 09:20:00

For those who missed it, the National Rifle Association's top executive got worked up into a full lather at the group's annual conference this weekend in St. Louis. Wayne LaPierre's ire was aimed at the "sensational" coverage of the Trayvon Martin killing...

New York Mayor Bloomberg donates $5 million to education programming in Baltimore

2012-04-17 11:07:00

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who made national headlines last year when he made a rare move for an elected official and donated $30 million of his own money to programs for underserved black and Latino youth in New York City, has spread his wealth...

Hopkins should name a building for Vivien Thomas

2012-04-20 09:00:00

Thanks to last week's news coverage, many have heard of the new Sheikh Zayed and Charlotte R. Bloomberg Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital, but there is another building at Hopkins that remains largely unknown: the Blalock Clinical Science Building. Two...

For government, no limits

2012-03-24 03:00:00

Are there no limits on government's power, no places where it cannot go? New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a former (thankfully) Republican, has decided to limit food donations to city charities, including homeless shelters, because the government...

Lin-sanity shows that Americans love a winner

2012-02-22 08:56:00

I give all this Jeremy Lin hoopla another month or so. No, I don't think Jeremy will be finished by then. I think he's got another 20 years of great play in him. What I mean is that this incessant bad punning using his last name will finally be exhausted....

Maryland lawmakers under national pressure on marriage bill

2012-02-17 08:38:00

As a handful of undecided Maryland delegates wrestle over their position on same-sex marriage, they've received calls from national leaders trying to move them one way or another on the bill. Prominent figures dialing Maryland area codes include New York...

'New Year's Eve' drops the ball on good storytelling

2011-12-13 12:57:00

Let's hope your New Year's Eve is better than the movie titled "New Year's Eve." This hectic ensemble comedy has so many interwoven story lines and exudes so much synthetic good cheer that it leaves you feeling exhausted long before midnight strikes....

Tea party, 'Occupy' don't stack up with '60s protests

2011-11-25 03:00:00

Once again, rage in the streets has captured the nation's attention, as it did during the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights revolution of the 1960s. Now it is the turn of the tea party and Occupy Wall Street movements. But the latter two have not...

@MikeBloomberg Dick Clark 's spirit will always live on in Times Square & the hearts of millions of New Yorkers: httpbit.ly/HZhcM1

2012-04-18 14:34:07

"I found that it was easier to prevent what makes people sick than to try and cure them and keep them from dying," said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg . "I saw what the school of public health did, and the medical school and the school of nursing and I took pride in it."

2012-04-12 00:00:00

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg gave $120 million to help build the $1.1 billion state-of-the-art hospital.

2012-04-12 00:00:00