NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday June 20
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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:
Nearly everyone says the Washington Redskins should change their name, but hardly anyone complains about their cheerleaders. On Wednesday the federal Trademark Trial and Appeal Board canceled the team’s trademark. On Thursday, Md. gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan criticized the action.
• CANCELLATION OF REDSKINS’ TRADEMARK MEANS LITTLE; HOGAN SLAMS PATENT OFFICE DECISION
In the wake of the U.S. Patent Office’s cancellation of six of the Washington, D.C. football team’s trademarks, Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan condemned the federal agency’s decision, saying he does not consider the team name to be a racial slur.
Hogan said the decision of whether or not to change the name should be left to the team and its fans “without the politically-motivated interference of pandering state and federal politicians.”
Read More at: Sports Illustrated
| Baltimore Sun | New York Times
• RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL DENIED MOVE TO LOTHIAN
The popular festival failed to get zoning approval from Anne Arundel County for its planned move from Crownsville.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• 2nd OFFICER SUSPENDED IN SLITTING OF DOG’S THROAT
According to court documents, the second officer held the dog down while a fellow officer cut the animal’s throat. Both Baltimore City police officers have been suspended, one without pay, one with; and both are more-than-20-year veterans of the department.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• TOP COP RESCUES MOTHER, SON FROM CRASH
It was the second high-profile incident Commissioner Anthony Batts has recently been involved in. Last month he helped arrest a gun suspect by punching him in the face.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• HOUSE GOP CHOOSES McCARTHY AS MAJORITY LEADER
The California Republican replaces Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor, who is relinquishing the post after losing his primary election last week in an upset.
Read More at: Wall Street Journal | CNN
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Thursday June 19
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:
Nearly everyone says the Washington Redskins should change their name, but hardly anyone complains about their cheerleaders. On Wednesday the federal Trademark Trial and Appeal Board canceled the team’s trademark.
• REDSKINS TRADEMARK CANCELED BY U.S. PATENT OFFICE
The U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ruled Wednesday that the Washington Redskins’ team name is “disparaging of Native Americans” and that its trademark protections should be canceled, a decision that has the potential to put new financial and political pressure on the team to change its name.
However, intellectual property lawyers are calling the action more of a political statement than a legal victory, in view of the board’s notation that its decision has no effect on the team’s continued use of its trademarks.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• ZOO, HOSPITAL BAN SMOKING
ON GROUNDS
The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore and the Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis on Wednesday banned smoking on their grounds. Both bans will take effect July 1.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV | The (Annapolis) Capital
• M&T ORDERED TO FORFEIT $560K IN DRUG PROCEEDS
A teller in the bank’s Perry Hall branch laundered proceeds from illegal drug sales from small denomination bills into $100 bills.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• ANNE ARUNDEL PASSES $1B EDUCATION BUDGET
The county’s public schools got nearly everything they requested, including teacher raises and a new salary scale plus 75 new teaching positions, as well as $5.3 million for Monarch Global Academy.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• JUDGE’S RULING SLOWS ‘SUPERBLOCK’ DEVELOPMENT
After throwing out a $50 million lawsuit filed by the former developers of the project earlier this month, Circuit Judge Pamela J. White said Wednesday she will not enforce her decision until an appellate court rules on the case.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday June 18
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:
Artist’s rendering shows Horseshoe Casino Baltimore, set to open in August.
• HORSESHOE CASINO SETS AUGUST OPENING
The state’s newest casino — on Russell Street in South Baltimore adjacent to Camden Yards — announced Tuesday it has set a grand opening date for August, pending approval by the Maryland Lottery and Gaming Control Commission.
After sifting through approximately 31,000 employment applications, Horseshoe will be staffed with up to 1,900 people.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• EARLY VOTING NEARS RECORD TOTAL
More than 71,000 voted in the first five days, more than 5.5 percent of the state’s registered voters. Democrats outnumbered Republican voters 3-1.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• SIX STATES JOIN MARYLAND TO CLEAN UP CHESAPEAKE
The current bay agreement has a deadline of 2025 to restore the Chesapeake Bay to health.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• PLUS-SIZE SHOPS COME TO ARUNDEL MILLS
Fashion to Figure and Torrid will open at the mall in Hanover this summer and fall, respectively.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• RAWLINGS-BLAKE RANKED ONE OF BEST-DRESSED MAYORS
So says fashion magazine Vanity Fair, which revealed its list on Tuesday of the top-10 best-dressed mayors in the world.
Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Los Angeles’ Eric Garcetti were the only other Americans to make the list.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun | Vanity Fair
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Tuesday June 17
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:
WBFF Fox45-TV took home 9 regional Emmy Awards this week.
• FOX45 DOMINATES REGIONAL
CAPITAL EMMY AWARDS
The Baltimore TV station won nine awards for news coverage plus one for promotions — the best among local television stations and the fourth highest for the region — at the 56th Emmy Awards of the National Capital/Chesa- peake Bay Chapter.
Former Investigative Voice Reporter Stephen Janis won for a third time in as many years for his collaboration with Fox45 anchor Jeff Barnd and Photojournalist Joe O’Neill, recounting the 1976 Good Friday sniper, a story which featured former Baltimore City Homicide Lt. Stephen Tabeling, who recalled in vivid detail the day seven cops were shot on the corner of Lombard and Carey Streets 38 years ago.
Reporter Kathleen Cairns and Photojournalist David Larson also racked up awards, as did news anchor Jennifer Gilbert and Crime and Justice Reporter Joy Lepola.
Barnd notched a second Emmy for his interview with former Secret Service agent Clint Hill in the Historical/Cultural Single News Story category; Paul Gessler took home an award for his reporter compilation in the Multi-Media Journalist category for the second year in a row; and Seth Mussey won for his Simpson/Family Guy Comic Book Spot.
The awards show will air Wednesday from 8-11 p.m. on Maryland Public Television 2.
[The former watchdog news website Investigative Voice is now published as Voice of Baltimore.]
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• CARDIN ACCUSES CRITICS OF INTIMIDATION; SUPPORTER CALLED RACIST
According to State Sen. Joan Carter Conway, who is black, “Maybe to them [Cardin’s campaign workers and supporters], all black women look alike.”
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• ZIPCAR EXPANDS BALTIMORE OPERATIONS
The national auto-sharing company, which has expanded from an initial fleet of 27 cars four years ago to more than 200 vehicles parked in upscale city neighborhoods and on college campuses for instant rental in Baltimore, announced Monday the opening of a new office in Harbor East and a doubling of its workforce to seven employees.
Zipcar members are granted access to company-owned vehicles parked in local neighborhoods that can be reserved for an hour of errands or longer trips. Most members pay an hourly rate of $8-10 for use, on top of a $60 annual membership fee.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR CHALLENGED BY TRANSGENDER WOMAN
It’s happening this election in District 18 in Montgomery County, where Maryland’s only openly gay state senator is facing a retired surgeon and long-time transgender rights activist and lobbyist vying for his Senate seat in the June 24 Democratic primary.
As there is no Republican running in this liberal district that lies partly inside the Capital Beltway, the winner of the Democratic primary will be the district’s next state senator.
“This campaign is an uphill climb,” the challenger told Maryland Reporter. “I don’t delude myself in this. But my running for office has value in [and] of itself.”
Read More at: Maryland Reporter
• WERE ORIGINAL BALTIMORE ‘HONS’ ACTUALLY FEMALE VIKINGS?
Maybe so, said a sign on a psychedelically painted bus parked on The Avenue in Hampden during the weekend’s Honfest.
Read More at: Baltimore Messenger
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Monday June 16
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:
Washington D.C. is a finalist to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
• WASHINGTON D.C. NAMED FINALIST
FOR 2024 SUMMER OLYMPICS
The U.S. Olympic Committee announced at week’s end that the nation’s capital is on the short list of cities vying to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• PROPOSED UPSCALE OUTLET MALL
FOR WHITE MARSH FACES OPPOSITION
The area’s mall and other established retail centers don’t want the competition. A hearing is scheduled Thursday that could decide the project’s fate.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• SEVERN HEALTH CENTER STILL ON DESPITE LOSING $1.9M GRANT
The Anne Arundel County Executive has withdrawn a $1.9 million grant to the Baltimore nonprofit, which is vowing to go ahead with its construction plans despite loss of the funds, which would have gone toward the building of the center.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• MTA EXPANDS ‘SUNRISE SHUTTLE’
The bus line that travels to and from BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport on Sunday mornings between 4:30 and 6:30 a.m. is part of an effort by the state agency to double the number of mass transit passengers.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• ‘PATENT TROLLS’ ON AGENDA AT BAR ASSOCIATION MEETING
Reform is needed to stop these “scary thing[s] under the bridge,” the Maryland State Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Section was told at the legal organization’s annual meeting over the weekend in Ocean City.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
