Allies, foes of mayor swap sides over loan
Martin O'Malley has some new best friends. And some worried old ones. The mayor, whose hard-nosed financial decisions over the years have made him the darling of business leaders and...
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City took on plan, aware of bond risk
Even as New York bond raters warned of serious consequences, Mayor Martin O'Malley forged ahead yesterday with a $42 million plan to save Baltimore schools without state help, saying the...
City rejects state plan, offers own school loan
Baltimore leaders abruptly cast aside last night a state plan to rescue the city's nearly insolvent schools, offering a $42 million city loan intended to eliminate the need for strings-attached...
‘It just rolled over’
A fierce gust of wind flipped over a crowded Seaport Taxi off Fort McHenry yesterday, leaving one dead and three presumed drowned as federal safety officials began an investigation into...
Schools chief an issue in accord
The role state schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick should play in a management overhaul of the debt-ridden Baltimore City schools has emerged as the final sticking point as city and...
How city schools spiraled into debt almost unchecked
To help understand the Baltimore school system's financial crisis, consider the following analogy: A man has been spending beyond his means for years, borrowing money to keep a roof over...
School crisis may dictate O’Malley’s future
Mayor Martin O'Malley, who enjoys a national reputation as a municipal number cruncher, is in the midst of what many call the biggest crisis of his administration - a school...
O’Malley’s address focuses on schools
Mayor Martin O'Malley focused on the school system's classroom successes and administrative failures yesterday in his fifth State of the City address, in which he also invoked the memory of...
City leaders assail Ehrlich budget’s cuts
Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s proposed state budget is not going over well with some Baltimore leaders, who complain that it cuts aid to city government by $6 million and...
No lasting political harm seen for O’Malley, Ehrlich
First he was Mayor Martin O'Malley's larger-than-life sidekick, the barrel-chested cop with Big Apple charisma and zero tolerance for street crime. Then he was Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s political...