NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Oct. 25
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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:
Alice B. Toklas, lover of Gertrude Stein, was famous for her brownies and cookies, plus other foods — laced with marijuana.
They weren’t “Alice B. Toklas brownies” nor were the expected results achieved: The students at a Northeast Baltimore middle/high school got sick.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• UNDER ARMOUR PROFITS UP, STOCK DOWN
Under Armour’s profits jumped 27 percent in the third quarter as the Baltimore-based athletic apparel and footwear brand reported income of $73 million for the three months ended Sept. 30, up from $57 million a year earlier. However on Thursday the com- pany’s stock fell $4 a share, to close at $79.98.
Read More at: Baltimore Business Journal
• ROYAL FARMS TO REPLACE TOWSON FIRE STATION
The 55-year-old fire station in Towson will be replaced by a large Royal Farms complex with extra restaurant and retail space if plans by Baltimore County officials to sell the site to a private developer are adopted.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• ARUNDEL SCHOOLS’ CHIEF OF STAFF GOING TO PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
After luring former Anne Arundel County School Superintendent Kevin Maxwell, Prince George’s County is now getting his former chief of staff. George Margolies is leaving his post in Anne Arundel Nov. 15 for a similar job in P.G. County under Maxwell.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• DEVELOPER DROPS PLANS FOR ‘ACADEMIC VILLAGE’ ON COLLEGE PARK GOLF COURSE
University of Maryland’s golf course was spared the wrecking ball Thursday as a developer abandoned his proposal to build a mixed-use “academic village” on part of the College Park property.
Read More at: Washington Post
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Thursday Oct. 24
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:
Miley Cyrus (chewing bubblegum) twerks on Robin Thicke at MTV’s 2013 Video Music Awards ceremony in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Clay sculpture by Taylor Zitman)
• ANNE ARUNDEL HIGH SCHOOLS CRACK DOWN ON TWERKING
Annapolis and South River High Schools are cracking down on twerking, grinding and other pro- vocative/sexual dance moves at school events by requiring stu- dents — and their parents — to sign a “dance contract.” Those who fail to get the contract signed will not be allowed to attend school dances.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Ch. 13)
• MIDEI BREACHED STANDARDS BY INSERTING UNNECESSARY STENTS, JURY FINDS
At what was to be the conclusion of a 14-day malpractice trial in Baltimore County Circuit Court, former St. Joseph Medical Center cardiologist Mark Midei was found liable of breaching standard medical care by improperly placing three stents in the heart of a prominent businessman who allegedly didn’t need them.
However the jury also found the former owners of St. Joseph’s party responsible, allowing the penalty phase of the trial to go forward to determine how much the two defendants should pay.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• SANTONI’S CLOSED FOR FAILURE TO PAY RENT
Santoni’s Super Market was abruptly shut down Wednesday, a week before the store’s announced closing, by failure to pay more than $148,000 in rent. Owner Robert N. Santoni Jr. has blamed the Highlandtown store’s demise on the city’s five-cent bottle tax.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• PROSPECTIVE P.G. CO. CASINO OWNERS OFFER INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS
Two days after a competitor offered to return all its gambling profits to the State of Maryland in exchange for a casino license, the owners of a Greenwood Racing affiliate outside Philadelphia pledged to fund $100 million in improvements to Indian Head Highway in Prince George’s County and build an $800 million casino that they said would provide a more forceful economic boost to the community than the proposed casino at National Harbor.
Read More at: Washington Post
• HAGERSTOWN BANS SMOKING IN PUBLIC PARKS
Effective Monday, smoking will be banned at all Hagerstown city-owned parks, including the downtown University Plaza. The Hagerstown Greens at Hamilton Run golf course and designated areas of municipal stadium are exempt. First and second violations each carry a $20 fine, which jumps to $200 for each subsequent violation.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel13)
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday Oct. 23
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:
Five Md./D.C. unions are pushing for construction of a casino at National Harbor.
• MD./D.C. UNIONS PUSH NATIONAL HARBOR CASINO
MGM Resorts’ bid to build a casino in Prince George’s County at National Harbor was endorsed Tuesday by five Maryland/Washington, D.C. labor unions.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• AMAZON TO BUILD HUGE DISTRIBUTION CENTER ON BROENING HIGHWAY
With plans to hire more than 1,000 workers locally to pack and ship books, electronics and consumer goods, Amazon.com will open a one-million-square-foot distribution center in Southeast Baltimore at the site of the old GM plant on Broening Highway.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• HOPKINS WINS $70M NIH GRANT, AS UM-BALTIMORE LOSES OUT
A five-year $70-million-dollar National Institutes of Health grant designed to change how researchers pursue drug development and other medical treatments, was awarded Tuesday to Johns Hopkins University. However the University of Maryland, Baltimore lost its first bid for a similar grant.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• GANSLER PAYS 16-MONTH-OLD D.C. SPEED-CAMERA TICKET
Just weeks after claiming to have a clean driving record, Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler admitted Tuesday he had just paid a $400 16-month-old photo-camera speeding ticket issued in June 2012 by Washington, D.C. to a state vehicle that was traveling more than 20 miles per hour over the speed limit. The attorney general says it is unclear who was driving.
Read More at: Washington Post
• CITY COUNCIL WEIGHS CRACKDOWN ON PANHANDLING
It’s already illegal for panhandlers to ask for money in Baltimore City traffic. Now some City Council members want to make it illegal for them to solicit near restaurants, shops and parking meters.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Tuesday Oct. 22
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 County Council was expected to pass a resolution Monday with unanimous support to regulate hookah lounges.
• BALTIMORE CO. COUNCIL ACTS TO REGULATE HOOKAH LOUNGES
A resolution to regulate hookah lounges in Baltimore County was expected to be passed Monday night after all seven council members said they supported it.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• MALPRACTICE SUIT AGAINST ST. JOSEPH’S CARDIOLOGIST MIDEI WRAPS UP
A nearly monthlong medical malpractice trial in Baltimore County Circuit Court against former St. Joseph Medical Center cardiologist Mark Midei for allegedly insert- ing unnecessary stents in thousands of patients wrapped up Monday and is now in the hands of a jury.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• BALTIMORE-BASED NAACP NAMES INTERIM PRESIDENT
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Monday named board member and former U.S. House of Representatives Clerk Lorraine C. Miller as interim president and CEO of the 104-year-old civil rights organization, which is headquartered in Baltimore. The appointment is effective Nov. 1.
Read More at: USA Today
• WOMEN ENGINEERS’ CONFERENCE RETURNS TO BALTIMORE
Approximately 6,000 female engineers from all over the United States are expected in Baltimore Thursday as the Society of Women Engineers returns for its annual three-day conference, its first in Charm City since 2008.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• TOWSON GYNECOLOGIST TOOK CELLPHONE PHOTOS WITH PATIENTS’ CONSENT, LAWYER SAYS
Graphic photos of female genitalia found on the cellphone of a Towson gynecologist whose medical license was suspended pending charges of distributing illicit drugs, were taken for medical purposes and with patients’ consent, the doctor’s lawyer said Monday.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Monday Oct. 21
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:
Michael Phelps relaxes in Mount Washington pool, declines to discuss plans.
• PHELPS BACK IN TRAINING BUT MUM ON COMEBACK PLANS
Michael Phelps is back in training at Mount Washington’s North Balti- more Aquatic Club; however the swimming superstar is keeping a decision on whether or not to return to competition close to the vest.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Ch. 13)
• KOMEN RACE PARTICIPATION DECLINES AT HUNT VALLEY EVENT
Despite a significant decrease in participation following a recent scandal, the Komen Maryland Race for the Cure to benefit breast cancer research was held Sunday in Hunt Valley.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• WASHINGTON MONUMENT TO BEGIN $5 MILLION REPAIR
Baltimore’s Washington Monument — the first monument to the Revolutionary War hero and first president — is set to begin $5 million in repairs in preparation for its bicentennial on July 4, 2015.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• CAROL BURNETT GETS MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR HUMOR
Comedienne Carol Burnett, who got her TV start as a regular on a 1950s-era variety show hosted by Baltimore native Garry Moore, received the 2013 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, at the Kennedy Center Sunday night.
Read More at: Washington Post
• HAMPDEN’S ATOMIC BOOKS PRODUCES SCULPTURE
Hampden’s eclectic Atomic Books, well-known in the area for its offbeat collections, produces sculpture from a 3-D printer. (news feature)
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
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