NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday May 9
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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:
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, left, shown here with Gov. Martin O’Malley, insists he’s no diva, despite having his own makeup artist for television and other appearances.
• BROWN HIRES MAKEUP ARTIST FOR DEBATE
Attorney General Gansler and Del. Heather Mizeur relied on NBC’s makeup crew for their televised debate Wednesday night on Washington’s WRC-TV.
Brown hired his own makeup artist, a woman his campaign manager, Justin Schall, said is “someone who the lieutenant governor has worked with in the past.… They’re kind of chatty. They have fun together.”
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• MD., DEL. GOVERNORS CONCERNED ABOUT PFIZER TAKOVER OF DRUG MAKER
Gov. Martin O’Malley and Delaware Gov. Jack Markell are concerned about the potential impact Pfizer’s efforts to acquire AstraZeneca PLC could have on jobs in Maryland and Delaware. The two governors sent a joint letter to Pfizer Thursday.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• UNDER ARMOUR GIVES $10M TO HOPKINS CANCER CENTER
The Baltimore-based sports apparel giant will donate $10 million to the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital to create the Under Armour LiveWell Center.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• CARROLL CO. COMMISSIONERS REVERT TO SECTARIAN PRAYER POLICY
Following a ruling this week from the U.S. Supreme Court in a New York Case, the commissioners said Thursday they will resume giving each commissioner a turn opening meetings with a prayer of his or her choice, including those that specifically name Jesus Christ.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• ENTERPRISE HOMES BUYS FREDERICK SENIOR APARTMENTS FOR $14M
The Baltimore-based developer is purchasing a seven-story mid-rise senior housing apartment building in Frederick for $14 million.
Read More at: Maryland Daily Record
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Thursday May 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 Thursday:
The Anne Arundel County school board voted unanimously 8-0-1 to appoint George Arlotto as the county’s next school superintendent.
• ARUNDEL NAMES CHIEF OF STAFF
AS NEW SUPERINTENDENT
After a months-long national search, the Anne Arundel school board named George Arlotto, its current chief of staff and a former principal in Montgomery County, to be the county’s new school superintendent.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• BROWN, GANSLER CLASH IN DEBATE
AS MIZEUR STAYS COOL
The three Democrats vying to succeed Martin O’Malley as Maryland’s next governor held their first debate Wednesday, on WRC-TV, the NBC network affiliate in Washington, D.C.
Read More at: NBC/WRC-TV Wash. (Ch. 4)
• MORGAN STUDENTS PROTEST
NIGERIAN KIDNAPPING
More than 100 Morgan State University students stood in the rain Wednesday to protest the kidnapping of the Nigerian girls.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• HOUSE VOTES CONTEMPT
FOR EX-IRS OFFICIAL
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to hold former IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions about her agency’s targeting of conservative and other groups.
Read More at: Wall Street Journal
• MD. OYSTER POPULATION DOUBLES SINCE 2010
According to a 2013 Fall Oyster Survey released Wednesday by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, the state’s oyster population is at its highest point since this type of monitoring began in 1985.
Read More at: WJZ-TV (Channel 13)
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday May 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 Wednesday:
Attorney general candidate Jon S. Cardin, shown here with fellow Del. Heather Mizeur, who is runing for governor, missed 75 per- cent of committee votes in this year’s General Assembly session.
• DELEGATE CARDIN MISSES 75 PERCENT OF COMMITTEE VOTES
Jon S. Cardin, nephew of Maryland’s junior U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, is the frontrunner to become the state’s next attorney general. He failed to show up for 121 of 164 committee votes in this year’s legislative session, missing nearly 75 percent.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR TO DEBATE IN D.C.
The three Democrats vying to become Maryland’s next governor will debate Wednesday at 7 p.m. on Washington D.C.’s Channel 4 (WRC-TV), the city’s NBC affiliate. “Meet the Press” host David Gregory will moderate, and three Washington journalists will comprise the panel.
Read More at: NBC/WRC-TV Wash. (Ch. 4)
• REVERSAL SOUGHT IN CARROL CO. PUBLIC PRAYER CASE
The plaintiffs asked a federal judge in Baltimore to re-impose his order barring Carroll County Commissioners from opening their public meetings with overtly Christian prayers, claiming that the New York case which brought about the order’s dismissal is different because the prayers in New York are offered by invited clergy, not elected officials.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• ANNE ARUNDEL TO NAME NEW SUPERINTENDENT
The county school board has chosen from among three finalists and will name the new school superintendent Wednesday morning at 10 a.m.
Read More at: The (Annapolis) Capital
• O’MALLEY ORDERS SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION STUDY
In an executive order, the governor directed the Interagency Committee on School Construction to work with the Department of Budget and Management and the Department of Legislative Services to conduct a study on school construction funding in Maryland.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Tuesday May 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 Tuesday:
Gov. Martin O’Malley ventures from his Annapolis office into hostile Reddit-land via laptop in a futile attempt to earn hip Internet cred for his nascent presidential campaign. His ‘AMA’ on Reddit bit the dust. (Photo/O’Malley Twitter feed)
• O’MALLEY BOMBS ON REDDIT
The Maryland governor/presi- dential aspirant dodged questions in a failed attempt to establish Internet bonafides on the popular social-networking service Monday, angering participants and receiving a generally unfavorable rating for his efforts.
Read More at: Voice of Balto.
• SUP. CT. DECISION CLEARS WAY FOR CARROLL CO. PRAYER
A federal judge in Baltimore vacated his preliminary injunction Monday, opening the door for Carroll County commissioners to offer Christian prayers at public meetings.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• P.G. COUNTY RESIDENTS EVACUATED FOLLOWING SLOPE FAILURE
A week after Charles Village residents were forced to evacuate their homes following a collapsed retaining wall and landslide on East 26th Street, Prince George’s County residents in the Fort Washington neighborhood of Piscataway Hills are dealing with a similar fate caused by a slope failure including downed trees and powerlines that occurred Monday.
Read More at: NBC/WRC-TV Washington (Channel 4)
• INJURIES TOTAL NINE IN BETH STEEL BUILDING COLLAPSE
The roof gave way on a building at the former Bethlehem Steel mill at Sparrows Point Monday. Nine people were injured, four critically.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• O’MALLEY SIGNS MD. MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE INTO LAW
Base pay will rise incrementally from the current $7.25 an hour to $10.10 in 2018.
Read More at: U.S. News & World Report
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NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Monday May 5
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:
Artist’s rendering of Horseshoe Casino Baltimore, due to open in August or September on Russell Street, near Camden Yards. The new casino is holding a job fair this week to hire 1,700 workers.
• HORSESHOE CASINO TO HIRE 1,700
AT THREE-DAY JOB FAIR THIS WEEK
The new casino is holding a three-day job fair this week, which began Sunday and will continue Tuesday and Wednesday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Many of the casino-related jobs are already filled and now they are looking for accounting, valet, security and food-service workers.
Read More at: WBAL-Radio (1090AM)
• HOWARD COUNTY POLICE WARN OF TELEPHONE SCAM
In four reported cases, a person claiming to be a Howard County sheriff’s deputy encouraged victims to pay a fine over the phone via a prepaid debit card to avoid arrest for missing jury duty.
Read More at: WBFF Fox45-TV
• GOP CHALLENGERS LINE UP AGAINST DON DWYER
Six fellow Republicans are vying to oust the three-term state delegate, who spent his final day in jail Sunday in fulfillment of his DUI sentence.
Read More at: Baltimore Sun
• FIRE BATTALION CHIEF’S VEHICLE IN THREE-CAR CRASH
The driver of the battalion vehicle was en route to a fire Sunday evening and is in serious condition with non-life-threatening injuries. Four civilians were also injured. No names of victims have been released.
Read More at: WBAL-TV (Channel 11)
• APPLE’S $119M COURT VICTORY WON’T HURT COMPETITORS
The verdict in U.S. District Court at week’s end did little to derail the momentum of Samsung Electronics Co. or Google’s Android operating system, which has eclipsed Apple’s.
Read More at: Wall Street Journal
