Deputy Mayor

Baltimore Deputy Mayor Andrew B. Frank, one of the highest-ranking officials from the Sheila Dixon administration retained by Mayor Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake, announced his resignation Tuesday. Frank, the deputy mayor for economic and neighborhood development, said he will leave City Hall in May to take a job with the Johns Hopkins University. "It was one of the most difficult decisions I've ever made and made even more difficult because of my admiration and respect for Mayor Rawlings-Blake," he said.

Appearing relaxed while trying to quell talk of a hidden motive behind his decision to resign in three months, the city's blunt-spoken police commissioner did at least concede Friday that he was pushed out of the job. "Look, I was absolutely influenced in this decision," Frederick H. Bealefeld III said. But it wasn't by city officials or a as-yet-undisclosed issue. It was his wife, Linda, and 16-year-old daughter, Erica. Said Bealefeld, his eyes tearing, "They're ready for me to come home.

The personal vehicle of Baltimore's deputy mayor was vandalized over the weekend while it was parked outside of her Baltimore County home, county police said. Baltimore County police confirmed that Baltimore Deputy Mayor Kaliope Parthemos contacted police at the White Marsh precinct Sunday afternoon to report that her 2011 Mercedes E-350 had been defaced with red magic marker and an expletive directed at "Kelly," which is a nickname. The incident occurred sometime between Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, she told police.

The personal vehicle of Baltimore's deputy mayor was vandalized over the weekend while it was parked outside of her Baltimore County home, county police said. Baltimore County police confirmed that Baltimore Deputy Mayor Kaliope Parthemos contacted police at the White Marsh precinct Sunday afternoon to report that her 2011 Mercedes E-350 had been defaced with red magic marker and an expletive directed at "Kelly," which is a nickname. The incident occurred sometime between Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, she told police.

Kaliope Parthemos, a former social worker and public defender and long-time aide to Baltimore Mayor Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake, was named Deputy Mayor for Economic and Neighborhood Development Thursday. Kaliope Parthemos, a former social worker and public defender and long-time aide to Baltimore Mayor Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake, was named Deputy Mayor for Economic and Neighborhood Development Thursday. Parthemos, 39, supervised business and economic development and the city's spending board during Rawlings-Blake's tenure as City Council President.

Baltimore's deputy mayor is a dark-eyed, statuesque beauty, and she looks like she belongs on a runway, stepping out in a designer gown. "I could never walk down a runway and have people look at me," says Kaliope Parthemos, her long fingers fluttering nervously around her face as she speaks in her City Hall office. "I mean, I am 6 feet tall. I already draw all the attention when I walk in a room. " But that's where the 40-year-old Baltimore native will be Saturday night: In Hunt Valley, wearing designer dresses and borrowed gems and raising money for the fight against breast cancer . She was diagnosed with breast cancer herself barely weeks ago. She never thought a trip down a runway would be part of her journey.

Laurie B. Schwartz, Baltimore's deputy mayor for economic and neighborhood development, is leaving her post to take charge of day-to-day operations for the much-heralded east-side revitalization effort centered around a biotechnology park. Schwartz, who has shepherded the project through a nearly two-year planning stage from her office at City Hall, will become interim chief executive officer Dec. 2 of the nonprofit corporation created to oversee the development of the biotech park. The project is north of the Johns Hopkins medical complex and includes hundreds of new and renovated housing units.

Mayor Martin O'Malley's top executive met with Comptroller Joan M. Pratt yesterday to hash out how the two elected officials' staffs can work together to improve audits of city agencies. The two sides agreed that the administration should be pushing city agencies to fully cooperate with Pratt's auditors to root out inefficiencies. But Pratt and city auditor Yovonda Brooks expressed continuing concern with an administration policy to counter audits. "The Administration's proposal will hinder the audit process by impairing the integrity of the report response and creating delays in the completion of the audit," Pratt and Brooks wrote in a letter to First Deputy Mayor Michael R. Enright after their meeting with him. The meeting was prompted by Enright's Aug. 4 e-mail directive to all department heads asking to be fully informed of Brooks' audits.

Deputy Mayor Jeanne D. Hitchcock, Baltimore's chief lobbyist, stepped into office with the odds stacked against her. She took the job with Mayor Martin O'Malley a month before the General Assembly session opened, with a legislative agenda that was unclear. She hasn't worked as a lobbyist in Annapolis in a decade. With a $130,000 annual salary -- among the highest in city government -- and the high-profile title of deputy mayor for intergovernmental relations, she's raised eyebrows but sometimes has not received the respect a top aide in O'Malley's administration might expect.

NEW YORK - Driving along New York's West Side Highway in the darkness, Daniel L. Doctoroff sees things others might not. His car glides by vacant lots, rusting rail yards and a moonscape of auto shops - but what he describes is spellbinding. "This big space over here, that's going to be a stadium," he says, barely controlling his enthusiasm. "And that lot over there, which you can hardly see now, is going to be a public park. This will be the biggest project we've seen here in many years."

Baltimore's deputy mayor is a dark-eyed, statuesque beauty, and she looks like she belongs on a runway, stepping out in a designer gown. "I could never walk down a runway and have people look at me," says Kaliope Parthemos, her long fingers fluttering nervously around her face as she speaks in her City Hall office. "I mean, I am 6 feet tall. I already draw all the attention when I walk in a room. " But that's where the 40-year-old Baltimore native will be Saturday night: In Hunt Valley, wearing designer dresses and borrowed gems and raising money for the fight against breast cancer . She was diagnosed with breast cancer herself barely weeks ago. She never thought a trip down a runway would be part of her journey.

Kaliope Parthemos, a former social worker and public defender and long-time aide to Baltimore Mayor Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake, was named Deputy Mayor for Economic and Neighborhood Development Thursday. Kaliope Parthemos, a former social worker and public defender and long-time aide to Baltimore Mayor Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake, was named Deputy Mayor for Economic and Neighborhood Development Thursday. Parthemos, 39, supervised business and economic development and the city's spending board during Rawlings-Blake's tenure as City Council President.

Baltimore Deputy Mayor Andrew B. Frank, one of the highest-ranking officials from the Sheila Dixon administration retained by Mayor Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake, announced his resignation Tuesday. Frank, the deputy mayor for economic and neighborhood development, said he will leave City Hall in May to take a job with the Johns Hopkins University. "It was one of the most difficult decisions I've ever made and made even more difficult because of my admiration and respect for Mayor Rawlings-Blake," he said.

T he mayor of Baltimore tried to reach me on New Year's Eve - not because she needed someone to escort her to a party, but because she heard I was gathering information for a column about the closing of the Safeway supermarket in Mount Clare Junction. There was a mix-up with cell phone numbers - my fault - and we did not connect before deadline. But I could tell from the brief message she left on my newsroom phone that Sheila Dixon was concerned about losing the largest and oldest tenant of the 22-year-old shopping center on the city's southwest side.

Baltimore officials say they will not use federal stimulus funds for a rally to raise awareness of infant mortality after determining such spending would not be appropriate. Officials are seeking private donations for the event. The decision came after The Baltimore Sun reported that the city planned to spend $17,828.50 in federal money on food and party rentals for a "Fit Family Festival & Rally for Healthy Babies" scheduled for Saturday in Clifton Park. The party, sponsored by the city health department, is expected to cost a total of $40,000, and all of those funds were to have come from the city's share of stimulus grants.

PHILADELPHIA - For all the years he spent as a criminal and a drug user, Jose Rojas never saw the kinds of things now taking place in working-class neighborhoods like his in north Philadelphia."