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Clergy urge fight against convention center hotel

In an emotional rally yesterday, defiant and determined Baltimore church leaders called upon parishioners to fight plans for a downtown convention center hotel unless the city equally funds the redevelopment...
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Convention center hotel plan is met with skepticism

Standing before a panel of skeptical politicians in the City Council chambers, Baltimore Development Corp. President M.J. "Jay" Brodie conjured up the image yesterday of councils past that had had...
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Report questions proposal for hotel

With the Baltimore City Council poised to consider a publicly funded convention center hotel today, a Baltimore foundation is sharply questioning the need for such a facility. The Abell Foundation...
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City hotel hearing is a dud

A bill that would form an advisory committee to oversee the creation of a publicly financed convention center hotel was stymied yesterday when too few City Council members attended a...
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A day to grieve, take pride

For Linda Faulstich, it was the song. It came toward the end of the Memorial Day observance at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens - after the pomp of the colors procession...
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Planning commission accepts hotel plan

Baltimore's planning commission enthusiastically endorsed plans yesterday for a publicly financed convention center hotel, saying that without it, the city won't stay competitive in the convention business. In the first...
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Baltimore faithful reflect on legacy

As word spread yesterday across the Baltimore region of Pope John Paul II's deteriorating health, devout Catholics began vigils for him and religious leaders praised his 26-year tenure as having...
Jason Wilcox puffs at Mount Royal Tavern. "I ... think it should be up to the individual bar owner," he says of the proposed ban.

Bill seeks to extend smoking ban in city

Along the length of the Mount Royal Tavern's blue linoleum bar, next to nearly every pint of beer, glass of wine or shot of Jack Daniel's, a customer has plunked...
Maurice Blackwell leaves the courthouse in Baltimore after being convicted of the sexual abuse of Dontee Stokes when Stokes was a child. He is free until sentencing, scheduled for April 15.

‘Thank God … This is over’

As Dontee Stokes strode slowly down the courthouse steps yesterday, a smile spread across his face, just as his longtime attorney flashed a thumbs-up sign. "Thank God, thank God, thank...
Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley and his wife, Catherine, today walk outside City Hall, where the couple denounced rumors of infidelity spread by an aide to Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.

After months of gossip, rumors get public airing

For months now "it" has hovered in the shadows of Baltimore politics, emerging occasionally on partisan radio shows or in questioning calls from constituents, a frustratingly persistent annoyance for supporters...