NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Nov. 22
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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:
The FCC is proposing to end ban on cellphone use by passengers in-flight, except during takeoff & landing.
The proposal, to be considered at the commission’s Dec. 12 meeting, was greeted by protests from airline officials, flight attendants and others. Passengers would still be restricted from using mobile phones during takeoff and landing.
Read More at: New York Daily News
• CITY POLICE REVEAL NEW CRIME-FIGHTING PLAN
The new strategy, which calls for intense targeting of gangs, is aimed at overhauling obsolete and “outdated” crime-fighting techniques.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• PLANNING COMMISSION OK’S REMINGTON WALMART
After nearly four hours’ testimony pro and con Thursday evening on a development plan for 25th Street Station, the Baltimore City Planning Board voted unanimously in favor of a new retail project in Remington anchored by Walmart.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• TOWSON RESIDENTS STAGE RUSH-HOUR PROTEST AGAINST ROYAL FARMS
Morningside community and other residents, around 50 strong, gathered Thursday afternoon at the corner of York Road and Bosley Avenue to protest a county plan to sell the Towson fire station property for redevelopment as a Royal Farms store.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• MARYLAND COLLEGE ENROLLMENT DROPS SLIGHTLY
A report just released by the state Board of Regents indicates fewer students were enrolled at Maryland colleges this fall, with the decline being greatest for some of the state’s historically black colleges and universities.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Thursday Nov. 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 Thursday:
Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey were among 16 Presidential Medal of Free- dom recipients honored at a White House ceremony Wed. morning.
The former president and talk-show host Oprah Winfrey were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Wednesday at the White House. The medal was established 50 years ago by President John F. Kennedy, shortly before his assassination in 1963, to replace the earlier Medal of Freedom established by President Harry S. Truman in 1945 to honor civilians whose actions aided U.S. war efforts.
The Presidential Medal honors those individuals who have made “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.” Among the other 14 honorees were feminist Gloria Steinem, former Washington Post Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee and Chicago Cubs baseball great Ernie Banks. Three recipients were recognized posthumously.
Read More at: Washington Post
• TRIBUNE CO. TO CUT 700 NEWSPAPER JOBS
The Baltimore Sun will be adversely affected; however none of the reporting staff will be laid off.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• BIDEN AND RAWLINGS-BLAKE ADVOCATE
FOR NEW CSX FACILITY FOR PORT OF BALTIMORE
After touring the expansion of the Panama Canal with Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and other dignitaries including the Mayor of Philadelphia and U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. joined with the Baltimore mayor to advocate for a new CSX facility for the port.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• BALTIMORE STOP-AND-FRISK TACTICS QUESTIONED
In 2012, city police stopped 123,000 people, searched 494 and recovered only nine guns and one knife. Ten of those stopped were carrying illegal drugs.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• BWI RUNWAYS TO GET $5.5M UPGRADE
The runway improvements at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport were approved Wednesday by the Maryland Board of Public Works.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday Nov. 20
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:
Catonsville’s historic Candle Light Inn is slated to be turned into a funeral home.
PLANNED CLOSING OF CANDLE LIGHT INN
The historic restaurant — which is still open — is to be converted into a funeral home, pending an administrative law judge’s ruling expected in the next seven to 10 days. At least five residents raised concerns about the proposal.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• MIZEUR PROPOSES LEGALIZING MARIJUANA
If elected, the gubernatorial hopeful says she’ll legalize, regulate and tax marijuana in Maryland, and will use the money to fund early childhood education.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• VIDEO DEPICTS O’MALLEY AS BALTIMORE’S SAVIOR
A three-and-a-half-minute video depicts the governor as a Baltimore mayor who saved the city.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• SOME CANCELED MD. INSURANCE POLICIES CAN BE RENEWED
The state’s insurance commissioner says individual policies that don’t comply with the federal health care overhaul can be extended through the end of next year but that they must be renewed before Jan. 1.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• MIDSHIPMAN CLEARED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT IS COMMISSIONED
A former Naval Academy football player who was accused of sexual assault but will not face trial has graduated and been commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Tuesday Nov. 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 Tuesday:
Former Federal Maritime Commission Chairman and Congresswoman Helen Delich Bentley was honored/roasted Sunday at 90th birthday party. (VoB Photo/Bonnie J. Schupp)
The Port of Baltimore’s “biggest cheerleader” was honored by Republicans and Democrats alike at a Baltimore Museum of Industry event.
Except for Governor O’Malley and Lieutenant Governor Brown, the state’s senior elected officials were in attendance, including Attorney General Gansler.
Read More at: Voice of Baltimore
• DOW TOPS 16,000 FOR FIRST TIME
The S&P 500 briefly surpassed 1,800. But neither index closed above those milestones.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• EQUITABLE BUILDING TO OFFER APARTMENTS
The historic Equitable Trust office building on North Calvert Street will be converted into 180 residential urban apartments. The developer plans to spend $32 million — $178,000 per unit — to convert the nine stories of office space.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• COUNCIL DELAYS PANHANDLING LEGISLATION
Without discussion, the Baltimore City Council voted unanimously Monday to send its panhandling bill back to committee.
Read More at: Baltimore Brew
• CHENEY DEFENDS ELDER DAUGHTER’S OPPOSITION TO GAY MARRIAGE
The former vice president and his wife came to the defense Monday of their older daughter Liz, who is running for U.S. Senate in Wyoming.
Read More at: New York Times
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Monday Nov. 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 Monday:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s elder daughter Liz, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Wyoming, was criticized Sunday by her younger sister Mary for her stance in opposition to same-sex marriage.
• CHENEY SISTERS AT WAR OVER GAY MARRIAGE
The former vice president’s daughters’ war of words es- calated Sunday when Mary Cheney and her wife sharply criticized older sister Liz for expressing opposition to same-sex marriage during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”
Liz Cheney is running for the U.S. Senate in Wyoming. On Facebook, her sister Mary said, “Liz — this isn’t just an issue on which we disagree — you’re just wrong — and on the wrong side of history.”
Read More at: Washington Post
• RAVENS LOSE TO BEARS, AMID TORRENTIAL STORM
It was a heartbreaker for Baltimore, which lost in over- time in Chicago, 23-20, in a game delayed two hours by a torrential downpour.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• CARDIN TO ENDORSE BROWN FOR GOVERNOR
Maryland’s junior U.S. senator is expected to join the parade of Democrats flocking to support the lieutenant governor in his race against Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler and State Del. Heather R. Mizeur.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• CITY COUNCIL MAY DELAY TAXI TAX
Baltimore City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke plans to introduce a bill that would delay by 180 days the implementation of the 25-cents per passenger excise tax on cabs, limousines and for-hire sedans, which went into effect Oct. 1 but is not due to start being collected until Nov. 25.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• D.C. MAYOR FIRES INSURANCE OFFICIAL WHO QUESTIONED OBAMACARE FIX
A day after publicly questioning a decision by President Obama to reverse a major tenet of the Affordable Care Act, the Washington, D.C. insurance commissioner was fired by Mayor Vincent C. Gray.
Read More at: New York Times
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