NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Jan. 17
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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:
Humanities professors at Loyola Univer- sity Maryland are purchasing hundreds of Video Americain DVDs for the college.
Loyola University Maryland humanities professors have already raised $6,000 to purchase hundreds of cream-of-the-crop DVDs from the vintage video store near the college campus, which is about to shut its doors. So far the school has bought more than 600 titles.
Read More at: Baltimore Messenger
• MD. HEALTH WEBSITE WORKERS’ SALARIES TOP $3M
The state’s embattled website has hired approximately 50 workers, seven of whom are paid in excess of $100,000 a year. The former director, Rebecca Pearce, earned $193,000 until she resigned last year after a botched roll-out led to a firestorm of controversy.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• GOP CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR DEBATE ECONOMY, TAXES
Harford County Executive David Craig, State Del. Ron George, Brian Vaeth and businessman Charles Lollar held the first formal debate Thursday night in the race to be Maryland’s next governor. The event was telecast live on WBFF Fox45-TV. Former Bob Ehrlich Appointments Secretary Larry Hogan, who has said he will announce his candidacy for the Republican nomination next week, reportedly declined repeated invitations to participate.
Read More at: Associated Press
• LEGALIZED MARIJUANA SUPPORTERS LAUNCH DRIVE IN ANNAPOLIS
Support in the General Assembly is growing, but legislative leaders, including Gov. Martin O’Malley, are opposed. The advocates launched their drive Thursday.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• UNDER ARMOUR TO OUTFIT NAVAL ACADEMY ATHLETES
The Baltimore-based sports apparel firm will outfit all of Navy’s 33 athletic teams under a new multiyear deal.
Read More at: Baltimore Business Journal
N.B.: Voice of Baltimore will not publish a compendium on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
(Monday Jan. 20th).
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Thursday Jan. 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 Thursday:
City leaders pondered the future of Baltimore's traffic cameras at an investigative hearing Wednesday.
Following an investigative hearing Wednesday at City Hall to consider what went wrong with Baltimore’s speed and red light camera system, city leaders now say they want to learn from the mistakes that were made and try it all over again — most likely with an all-new camera system.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• O’MALLEY’S $39B BUDGET PLAN INCLUDES NO NEW TAXES
The governor’s final budget, which includes highway, road and bridge construction projects, plus $300 million for school construction, is expected to support 48,000 jobs, while increasing tuition at Maryland state colleges and universities by as much as three percent.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• BALTIMORE CO. SCHOOL BUDGET TO CUT FUNDING, RAISE SALARIES
Superintendent S. Dallas Dance’s proposed $1.4 billion budget would cut principals’ funding for their schools, but add money for employees’ raises and put wireless Internet into all schools that don’t already have it.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• J.C. PENNEY TO CLOSE STORE IN SALISBURY
The giant retailer plans to shut down 33 underperforming stores, including one in Maryland — at The Centre in Salisbury — and eliminate 2,000 jobs nationwide in a move that Penney expects will save the company $65 million beginning this year.
Read More at: Wall Street Journal
• MD. GOP CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR SHORT ON FUNDS
The state’s three announced Republican gubernatorial candidates posted weak numbers in their campaign finance reports filed Wednesday, opening the door for the entry of a fourth candidate, Lawrence J. Hogan Jr., founder of a real estate business based in Annapolis, who was ex-Gov. Bob Ehrlich’s appointments secretary. Hogan said earlier this week he would make his candidacy official Jan. 21.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday Jan. 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 Wednesday:
• CROSS KEYS RESIDENTS WANT
TO SAVE ICONIC GATEHOUSE
The owner of the Cross Keys Shopping Center wants to tear it down. Some residents call it a historic icon and insist it should be preserved.
Read More at: Baltimore Messenger
• STRIKING LONGSHOREMEN REJECT ‘BEST AND FINAL’ CONTRACT OFFER
However Baltimore’s International Longshoremen’s Association Local 333 will continue to negotiate with the Steamship Trade Association, which represents the port’s employers, ahead of a Friday contract deadline.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• HUBBLE TELESCOPE REPLACEMENT TO BE FUNDED WEDNESDAY
Funding for the new telescope being built at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. is part of a trillion-dollar spending bill the President is expected to receive as soon as Wednesday.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• GUBERNATORIAL BID STILL POSSIBLE BY RUPPERSBERGER
The Second District Maryland congressman is “still considering” a campaign for governor, his spokesman said this week, despite telling The Capital newspaper in Annapolis in November he was leaning toward not running for the state’s top office.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• CUMMINGS WANTS ANSWERS FROM TARGET
The Seventh District Democratic congressman says his Republican counterparts in Congress have agreed to a hearing within the next month on the security breach involving Target and more than 100 million customers.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Tuesday Jan. 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 Tuesday:
Mars Super Markets will close its Edison Hwy. distribution center March 9th.
The Rosedale-based supermarket company will close its 300,000-square-foot independent distribution center in East Baltimore March 9, affecting 78 employees, and will outsource distribution to Bozzuto’s Inc., a family-owned wholesale distributor based in Connecticut. Mars operates 17 stores in Baltimore, Howard, Anne Arundel and Harford Counties.
Mars said it will work with Bozzuto’s to help find new employment for employees impacted by the center’s closure, and will encourage affected employees to apply for positions elsewhere in the company as they become available.
Bozzuto’s has three distribution centers in Connecticut in addition to one in Allentown, Pa. Ever since Joseph D’Anna opened the first Mars Super Market in Essex in 1943, the grocery chain has remained in the D’Anna Family.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
• MAYOR STAGES PUBLIC SAFETY WALK IN EAST BALTIMORE
As 16 homicides occurred in the first 12 days of 2014, the Mayor of Baltimore and the city’s Police Commissioner staged a public safety walk Monday night.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• NAVAL ACADEMY MIDSHIPMAN’S COURT-MARTIAL SET FOR MARCH
Joshua Tate is accused of sexually assaulting a female midshipman. Charges against Midshipman Eric Graham, one of the three Naval Academy football players initially accused, were dropped last week because statements he made before being properly read his Miranda rights were ruled inadmissible as evidence.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• SINGLE CARROT THEATRE MOVES TO REMINGTON
The avant-garde theater group from Colorado will stage its first production Jan. 24 in its new home at Howard and 26th Streets in a redeveloped former tire shop.
Read More at: Baltimore Messenger
• ANNAPOLIS MAYOR EYES CONTROVERSIAL PROPERTIES
Newly elected Mayor Mike Pantelides said Monday he’s in the early stages of exploring whether to buy two controversial properties in the city — the Fawcett Boat Supplies building at City Dock and the Crystal Spring Farm on the city’s edge.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Monday Jan. 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 Monday:
Former Ehrlich appointee Larry Hogan will make his candidacy for Maryland governor official Jan. 21 at a crab house near Annapolis.
• HOGAN TO RUN FOR GOP NOMINATION FOR MARYLAND GOVERNOR
The former cabinet member and appoint- ments secretary to ex-Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. sent an email to the news media Sunday saying he would make his candidacy official with an announcement Jan. 21 at Mike’s Restaurant & Crab House in Riva, near Annapolis. Hogan is a resident of Annapolis. His father, Lawrence J. Hogan Sr., is a former Maryland congressman and Prince George’s County executive.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• ARUNDEL EXECUTIVE RACE
TO COST MILLIONS
In the wake of reports at week’s end that State Del. Steve Schuh has raised $1.25 million to run for Anne Arundel county executive, the race is shaping up to be a multimillion-dollar campaign.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• O’MALLEY CALLS FOR MINIMUM WAGE RAISE TO $10 AN HOUR
The Maryland governor made his proposal Sunday in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” television program.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
• RAWLINGS-BLAKE SAYS N.J. GOV. CHRISTIE CREATED ‘CULTURE OF CALLOUSNESS’
In her second appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in two months, the Baltimore mayor, who is secretary of the Democratic National Committee, said she didn’t want to criticize Christie, a Republican, but questioned the “culture” created by the New Jersey governor in his administration. (Scroll down the NBC transcript of the Sunday morning TV program for Rawlings-Blake’s remarks.)
Read More at: NBC News
• O’MALLEY CONTINUES TO DEFEND HEALTH CARE EXCHANGE
He says the state did not drop the ball on the troubled project, and that it will meet its enrollment goal by the end of March.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
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