NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Jan. 10
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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 Maryland General Assembly will consider raising the legal smoking age in the state from 18 to 21. A bill has been introduced by Montgomery County Sen. Jennie M. Forehand.
• MD. CONSIDERS WHETHER TO RAISE
LEGAL SMOKING AGE FROM 18 TO 21
Montgomery County State Sen. Jennie M. Forehand has introduced a bill that would have Maryland following in the footsteps of New York City, which recently raised the Big Apple’s smoking age by three years to 21.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• DEL. DON DWYER STRIPPED OF COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT, WILL REMAIN IN OFFICE
The harsh punishment was meted out Thursday by House Speaker Michael E. Busch because Dwyer is serving 30 consecutive weekends of jail time for a second DWI conviction last October after he injured seven people in a drunken boating accident a year earlier. Dwyer has refused calls to resign.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• NAVAL ACADEMY ASSAULT CHARGES COULD BE DROPPED
One of the two midshipmen accused of sexually assaulting a female mid was not read his Miranda rights.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• ARUNDEL CO. EXEC APOLOGIZES FOR CAMPAIGN EMAIL
Laura Neuman said Thursday that some Anne Arundel County employees “may have inadvertently” received her campaign emails because their names were on “a database of previous campaign volunteers or donors.”
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• MD. SCHOOLS NO LONGER RANKED NO. 1 IN U.S.
The state’s schools were once ranked best in the nation five years running by the national magazine Education Week. As a result of revamped scoring however they’ve dropped to No. 38.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Thursday Jan. 9
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:
Adrena Rice — whose Facebook page identifies her as “Bossy’Ass Drena Rice” — Wednesday became the first correctional officer to be senten- ced in the Baltimore prison scandal involving the Black Guerrilla Family.
• CORRECTIONS OFFICER SENTENCED IN BALTIMORE PRISON SCANDAL
Adrena Rice pleaded guilty in September to racketeering conspiracy for her role in a vast drug-smuggling operation at the Baltimore City Detention Center. She was sentenced Wednesday to three and a half years in prison for smuggling contraband, including marijuana and prescription pills, into the facility.
Eight other correctional officers have pled guilty in the conspiracy and are awaiting sentencing. In November, 14 additional officers were indicted, bringing the total number of guards facing prison time to 27.
Rice, aged 25 and a single mother, is the first guard to be sentenced since the federal investigation blew the cover of the Black Guerrilla Family, which some have charged was literally “running the prison.”
According to witnesses, Rice not only smuggled drugs but also slept with three BGF inmates while on the job.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• HARBOR POINT AGREEMENTS APPROVED BY CITY SPENDING BOARD
The Baltimore City Board of Estimates formally approved funding agreements Wednesday with the developer of the $1.8 billion Harbor Point project, over the protests of Comptroller Joan M. Pratt.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• MD. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION GETS UNDERWAY, WITHOUT POT
As the 2014 session of the State Legislature opened Wednesday, Maryland’s top elected officials announced opposition to legalizing the recreational use of marijuana.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• MACY’S CUTS JOBS, CLOSES FIVE STORES ACROSS U.S.
The giant retailer is cutting jobs by the thousands and closing stores around the country. But its Maryland stores are not likely to be impacted.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• PANTELIDES DISMISSES ANNAPOLIS CITY MANAGER
The new mayor let the city manager go Wednesday. Michael Mallinoff had been hired by the administration of former Mayor Joshua J. Cohen, who lost reelection to Pantelides in November by 59 votes.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday Jan. 8
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:
Baltimore City’s Board of Estimates will pay $237,000 for ‘additional independent monitoring services’ for speed and red light cameras.
On Wednesday, the Baltimore Board of Estimates plans to pay URS Corp. $237,000 for “additional independent monitoring services” for Baltimore’s speed and red light cameras, which are expected to continue to be offline for months.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• COLD TEMPERATURES BOOST SALES FOR JOS. A. BANK
In the midst of a hostile takeover bid by Men’s Wearhouse, the Hampstead-based clothing firm is reporting third quarter sales up 6.3 percent from 2012.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• LOYOLA UNVEILS NEW ALUMNI HOUSE
Loyola University Maryland, which until 2009 was known as Loyola College, plans to officially open the first alumni house in its 162-year history on Jan. 13. According to the school’s vice president for advancement, “Now that we are a university, we can say that we need an alumni house.”
Read More at: Baltimore Messenger
• COLD TAKES TOLL ON REGIONAL POWER GRID
Residents in Maryland and other states affected by the severe cold snap of the past two days are being asked to conserve energy whenever possible to prevent overloads.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• HOWARD CO. UNEMPLOYMENT RATE LOWEST IN FIVE YEARS
In November, unemployment in the the county dipped to 4.5 percent, tied with Montgomery County for the lowest level in the state.
Read More at: Howard County Times
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Tuesday Jan. 7
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:
Men's Wearhouse, which last June abruptly fired its founder, George Zimmer, shown here, made a hostile takeover bid Mon- day for Maryland-based rival firm Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc.
• MEN’S WEARHOUSE MAKES HOSTILE BID FOR MD.-BASED JOS. A. BANK CLOTHIERS
As the cat-and-mouse game between the rival men’s retailers escalates, an analyst who follows Men’s Wearhouse said Monday that Hampstead, Md.-based Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. won’t be able to fend off Monday’s hostile bid, whereby the Fremont, Calif. firm founded 40 years ago by TV pitchman George Zimmer upped its previous offer of $55 a share to $57.50 and launched a tender offer as well.
Read More at: Baltimore Business Journal
• HOPKINS CANCER CENTER GETS $90M AWARD FROM LUDWIG INSTITUTE
The grant amounts to one-sixth of a $540 million grant that will be shared equally by six U.S. institutions, each of which has a Ludwig Center on its premises.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• CORPORATIONS DOING BUSINESS WITH MD. GOVERNMENT DONATE MILLIONS TO O’MALLEY
The contributions were revealed in a report released Monday by Change Maryland, whose chairman, Larry Hogan — former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.’s secretary of appointments and a member of the ex-governor’s cabinet — is expected to run for the state’s Republican nomination for governor this year.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• ARUNDEL CO. EXECUTIVE NEUMAN NAMES NEW CHIEF OF STAFF
Richard C. “Rook” Rogers fills a position that has been vacant since September, when Neuman’s first chief of staff, David Cordle, was dismissed without explanation. Prior to his appointment, Rogers was the CEO of E-Landscape and Specialty Solutions, a commercial landscaping company whose projects include the Crosswinds apartment complex in the Annapolis Towne Centre.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• BALTIMORE’S FIRST BLACK POLICE COMMISSIONER DIES AT 86
Bishop L. Robinson Sr., who was first appointed by then-Mayor and later Gov. William Donald Schaefer, went on to become state secretary of public safety and correctional services, and later juvenile justice. He died Monday of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Monday Jan. 6
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:
Annapolis Mayor Mike Pantelides will hold his first monthly open-door meeting where residents can speak with him face-to-face Tuesday.
• ANNAPOLIS MAYOR SCHEDULES MONTHLY CITY HALL PUBLIC MEETINGS
New Mayor Michael J. Pantelides, who won a 59-vote victory over previous incumbent Joshua J. Cohen in November, will hold the first of monthly open-door meetings Tuesday at City Hall. Annapolis residents will be able to speak with the mayor face-to-face without making an appointment.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• PROPERTY TAX RELIEF PROPOSED
BY BALTIMORE MAYOR
Homeowners in the city could receive $3 million in property tax assistance under a plan unveiled Sunday by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• LOWEST HOMICIDE RATE FOR BALTIMORE COUNTY
The county is touting historically low murder rates, fewer than it’s seen in decades.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• TOWSON’S DREAM SEASON ENDS WITH LOSS TO NORTH DAKOTA STATE, 35-7
Still no clarification of why two top players on the Towson Tigers team were suspended and not allowed to play in the Football Championship Subdivision game against No. 1 seed, two-time reigning national champion North Dakota State.
Read More at: USA Today
• HAGERSTOWN ICE CREAM PLANT REVIVED
More than 1,600 applicants have applied for three dozen or so initial jobs at the former Good Humor ice cream plant that closed two summers ago.
Read More at: Washington Post
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April 6th, 2022 - 1:14 PM
California Democratic party endorsed Mike Schaefer last month. I’ve been looking into numerous stories about him. He was Los Angeles’s biggest slumlord in the 1970’s. I see he also was a candidate and slumlord in Baltimore. Please reply with any information. I wonder if he still owns property in Baltimore.