NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday May 16
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF
A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond. Your weekday morning look (with links) at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Friday:
Gov. Martin O’Malley signed the last bills of his eight-year administration into law Thursday.
• O’MALLEY SIGNS TRANSGENDER BILL AT FINAL BILL SIGNING OF HIS ADMINISTRATION
The term-limited governor signed the last bills of his administration at a ceremony Thursday in Annapolis.
The new transgender law prohibits discrimination on matters relating to housing, employment, credit and use of public accommodations, and will take effect Oct. 1 if opponents don’t get enough signatures to put it on the ballot for the November general election.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• STATE SELLS CANTON MARINE TERMINAL
TO PRIVATE OPERATOR FOR $2M
The 346,000-square-foot Clinton Marine Terminal known as “Pier 1” was sold Thursday to Rukert Terminals Corp. for $2 million.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• MARYLAND BOARD APPROVES ADDITIONAL $131M
FOR SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION
Of that total, $8 million is earmarked for a new Severna Park high school.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• COURT OF APPEALS TO REVISIT POLICE-SHOOTING DEATH
The state’s top court will decide whether Prince George’s County owes the family of a man killed by a police officer $11.5 million, as awarded by a jury — or the $400,000 ordered by the judge.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• GAMBLING PROCEEDS BENEFIT PIMLICO/PARK HEIGHTS AREA
The neighborhoods surrounding Pimlico Race Course have received millions of dollars from the city’s share of casino proceeds, specifically slots. Between 2012 and 2014 Baltimore budgeted about $9 million for the greater Pimlico area, about one-third of which has already been spent.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11) | Maryland Daily Record
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Thursday May 15
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF
A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond. Your weekday morning look (with links) at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Thursday:
Former Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke has been named President of the Univ. of Baltimore.
• FORMER MAYOR SCHMOKE NAMED UNIVERSITY
OF BALTIMORE PRESIDENT
He will take office in July, replacing retiring President Robert L. Bogomolny. The announcement was greeted by whoops, screams of excitement and a standing ovation.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record | Baltimore Sun
• N.Y. TIMES ABRUPTLY FIRES FIRST FEMALE TOP EDITOR
Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. told a stunned newsroom Wednesday he was firing Executive Editor Jill Abramson after only three years in the job and replacing her with Managing Editor Dean Baquet, who becomes the first African-American to head the nation’s premier daily.
Read More at: Politico | Forbes | Reuters
• ARUNDEL BUDGETS $16.5M FROM CASINO REVENUES FOR PUBLIC SAFETY, SIDEWALKS AND TRAIL AROUND MD. LIVE!
County Executive Laura Neuman on Wednesday proposed using the county’s projected share of casino revenues next year to pay for a long-promised police substation, expanded ambulance service and a new hiker/biker trail in Hanover.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• NATIONAL AQUARIUM MAY ELIMINATE DOLPHINS
The Inner Harbor attraction is considering moving the eight mammals from the Dolphin Discovery amphitheater to an oceanside sanctuary at an undetermined location, based on charges over whether keeping the animals in captivity is cruel.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• HAGERSTOWN AIRPORT GETS $1M FEDERAL GRANT FOR TAXIWAY UPGRADES
The federal entitlement grant will pay for improvements to heavily used taxiways as well as new high-efficient LED lighting on the airfield, and other infrastructure projects.
Read More at: Hagerstown Herald-Mail
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday May 14
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF
A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond. Your weekday morning look (with links) at late- breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Wednesday:
Stolen dump truck crashes into Channel 2’s lobby just before noon Tuesday.
• STOLEN TRUCK CRASHES INTO WMAR-TV STATION
The deranged driver — who claimed to be “God” — was taken into custody by police after demanding entrance to the building.
To watch WMAR-TV surveillance video: click here
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Ch. 11)
• CLINTON HEADLINES MILLION- DOLLAR BROWN FUNDRAISER
The former president told a fundraising crowd Tuesday night in Potomac that Maryland’s lieutenant governor is in his opinion the most qualified candidate to head the state.
Referring to Brown’s mishandling of Maryland’s health exchange website, Clinton said he would never support a candidate who’s never made a mistake — an apparent veiled reference to his own mistakes while president.
Earlier in the day, Clinton delivered the opening remarks at a town hall meeting on prescription drug abuse.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• NEUMAN, SCHUH TALK TAXES, TRADE BARBS IN FIRST DEBATE
The two Republicans running for Anne Arundel County executive in the June 24 Maryland primary held a heated debate this week in Annapolis.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• CARROLL COMMISSIONERS RESUME CHRISTIAN PRAYER
County Commissioner Robin Frazier opened Tuesday’s meeting with a short prayer “in Jesus’s name.” U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles has been asked to reinstate his injunction barring sectarian prayer by the elected officials.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• KIRWAN STEPS DOWN AS UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CHANCELLOR
He will remain in office however until the Board of Regents names a successor.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Tuesday May 13
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF
A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond. Your weekday morning look (with links) at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Tuesday:
The Baltimore Police Department’s mounted unit will be on crowd control Saturday at Pimlico Race Course for the 2014 running of the Preakness Stakes. Shown here are six of the seven horse-and-officer pairs that comprise the unit.
• BALTIMORE MOUNTED POLICE TO RIDE AT PREAKNESS
All seven draft-horse-and-officer pairs of the Baltimore Police Department’s mounted unit will be on crowd control Saturday at Pimlico for the 139th running of the Preakness Stakes, the second jewel in thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Ch. 11)
• UMBC TO REPLACE ACTIVITIES CENTER WITH NEW $85M ARENA
The Baltimore County University of Maryland division said Monday it will replace its Retriever Activities Center with a new events and convocation center that will host community events and be the new home for the Retrievers’ sports teams. At a cost of $85 million, it is expected to open sometime during the 2017-2018 school year.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• RUPPERSBERGER PUSHES FOR EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
The Second District Baltimore-area congressman Monday urged a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to extend emergency unemployment insurance.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE MARKET SLUMPS IN BALTIMORE
A new report released Monday with statistics from April shows little or no growth compared to the same time last year, which could be the trend moving forward.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• BEALEFELD, STEVENSON STUDENTS ROBBED ON BUS IN PRETORIA
The former Baltimore City police commissioner, who teaches criminal justice at the Baltimore County university, was one of several chaperones on the South African tour. The college cut the five-week tour short because of the robbery. No one was injured in the incident.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Monday May 12
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF
A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond. Your weekday morning look (with links) at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on Monday:
The Washington Post says Maryland Democrats should vote for Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, left, to succeed Martin O’Malley as the next governor because he “strikes us as the best candidate and the one most likely to improve what Democratic leaders concede is the state’s anemic track record in attracting and retaining jobs and employers.”
• WASHINGTON POST GIVES BROWN BACKHANDED ENDORSEMENT
After listing reason after reason to not vote for him, the Post‘s editorial board then endorsed the lieutenant governor.
(Read the Comments: The Post‘s readers are virtually unanimous in their criticism
of the endorsement.)
Read More at: Wash. Post | WBFF Fox45
• HIGH-RANKING STATE OFFICIAL TEARS DOWN BROCHIN CAMPAIGN SIGNS
According to State Sen. Jim Brochin’s campaign manager, Maryland Commis- sioner of Labor and Industry J. Ronald DeJuliis and two campaign workers in the employ of DeJuliis’s wife tore down four Brochin campaign signs near a busy Parkville intersection Saturday afternoon.
Connie DeJuliis is running against the incumbent Brochin in the June 24 Democratic primary.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• GOUCHER’S FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT, RHODA DORSEY, DIES AT 86
According to outgoing President Sanford J. Unger, Dorsey “saved the college with the decision to go coed” after being named president in 1974. Goucher’s student population was all-female until 1986.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• NEUMAN, SCHUH SET DEBATE FOR ARUNDEL EXECUTIVE
The incumbent Anne Arundel County executive and two-term State Del. Steve Schuh will face off Monday at 8 p.m. in a debate to be moderated by Capital Gazette Editor Steve Gunn.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• WALTERS PUTS 600 WORKS OF ART ONLINE FOR PUBLIC USE
The Baltimore museum has digitized and catalogued more than 600 American paintings and other artworks, making them available for download and public use.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
