Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Mass same-sex wedding at Pride celebration 'a long time coming'

2013-06-16 17:30:00

Lorie Young, her white veil neatly pulled over her eyes, tucked a handwritten note into the bouquet of blue and purple flowers she clutched as she waited for the ceremony to begin. Written on it were her wedding vows, the promises of a shared future...

After 24 years, your table is ready

2013-06-16 20:25:23

For decades, the well-heeled and hungry went to the Chesapeake Restaurant at the corner of Charles and Lanvale streets for formally served dinners of charcoal-broiled steaks, unabashedly rich seafood dishes like jumbo crab lumps au gratin and a decadent...

At Baltimore Pride celebrations, community prevails over conflict

2013-06-15 19:51:39

At the height of the Baltimore Pride event Saturday, the song "We Are Family" played over the parade's speakers. Spectators lining North Charles Street called the song a fitting anthem, despite a recent dispute among community leaders about the spirit...

Not all welcome Red Line

2013-06-15 12:30:00

Your article regarding the proposed Red Line in Baltimore ("Red Line interest high," June 11) is not complete. You report 400 contractors, engineering firms, investment bankers and rail-car manufacturers attended the meeting to inquire about how they...

Baltimore Pride in a blender

2013-06-15 16:17:00

Anyone who's been to Baltimore Pride -- or any Pride, really -- knows there is a lot to see. It takes a lot to make me raise my eyebrows, but I did on several occassions during the parade and block party in Mount Vernon on Saturday -- mostly with a...

Bag tax: Mayor needs to pick her battles

2013-06-14 06:00:00

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake needs to spend more time thinking and picking her battles and reconsider a shopping bag fee for paper bags ("A better bag tax," June 12). Her recycling initiative has been successful, and we have been diligent participants...

Baltimore Pride events schedule

2013-06-14 10:16:00

Friday, June 14 7 p.m. - 11 p.m.� Twilight on the Terrace, a high-end cocktail party and major fundraiser for Baltimore Pride, offers an open bar and dancing to music from DJ J.R. Embrey. While gaudy outfits are sometimes de rigeur for Pride weekend,...

Harris Jones, Malone made nearly $150K lobbying city in 2012

2013-06-14 13:03:00

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's close friend Lisa Harris Jones and her husband, Sean Malone, made almost $150,000 last year lobbying the city on behalf of business clients, according to reports filed with Baltimore's ethics board.� The forms show...

Baltimore Pride 2013 to feature mass wedding

2013-06-13 10:29:00

In a year when Maryland's same-sex couples can, for the first time, legally marry, the organizers of Baltimore Pride 2013 decided some special celebrating was required. A landmark occasion, they reasoned, called for a landmark commemoration. So they...

City gives no restart date for camera tickets

2013-06-13 17:04:00

Two months after Baltimore stopped issuing tickets from its speed and red light cameras, city officials said Thursday they still don't know when the automated enforcement program will resume. "We want to be able to re-establish the public trust in...

Baltimore shows off its manufacturing for visiting engineers

2013-06-09 00:00:00

Men and women wearing hairnets, hard hats, safety glasses and bright-orange vests wended their way through Domino Sugars' Baltimore refinery Tuesday — there to look, not work. The manufacturing engineers and engineering students toured Domino as...

The mayor and the lobbyist

2013-06-13 08:41:00

Based on what we know so far, there does not appear to be anything illegal about the way Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has carried on her friendship with City Hall's top lobbyist, Lisa Harris Jones. Strictly speaking, there may not be anything...

Gay and lesbian supporter and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, center, marches in the Baltimore Gay Pride parade.

2013-06-15 00:00:00

Baltimore residents waves to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, right, and police commissioner Anthony W. Batts and their entourages as they walk downtown.

2013-06-11 00:00:00

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, right, and police commissioner Anthony W. Batts, left, are at the Baltimore Police CitiWatch headquarter on Howard Street.

2013-06-11 00:00:00