BUSINESS
Jamie Smith Hopkins | March 16, 2012
Haven't paid your city property taxes? Then you're on the city's list of owners whose properties could end up in tax sale this May, along with nearly 27,000 others who (as of last week) were behind on taxes, water bills or other city tabs. That's more than 10 percent of city properties, located in neighborhoods as varied as Poppleton and the Inner Harbor . If previous years are any judge, many owners will pay up quickly and avoid tax sale altogether. Here's an interactive map that shows where all the properties are. You can click on the dots for more details, including the address, who owns and how much the city says they owe. (Keep in mind that some may have paid already -- and at least one is an error .)
NEWS
By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun | March 14, 2012
Four trucks laden with 100 slot machines arrived early Wednesday morning at the nearly completed casino at Arundel Mills mall. For the next two hours, workers wheeled banks of the gleaming new machines, one by one, inside on hand trucks. Installation of the first set of slots moved Maryland Live! Casino, the state's largest, another step closer to its scheduled opening in three months. That's progress for Maryland's lackluster gambling program, which has yet to be fully implemented more than three years after voters approved five slots locations statewide.
NEWS
By Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun | February 24, 2012
Police said a 24-year-old man walking home from a club was shot early Friday near the University of Baltimore campus in Mid-Town Belvedere. The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting, which police believe occurred some time around 1 a.m. in the 1400 block of Maryland Ave., at the intersection near Mount Royal Avenue. The victim walked in to an area aroudn 1:30 a.m. hospital for treatment, at which time police were notified of the shooting. Police spokesman Jeremy Silbert said police believe the victim was walking home from a club on North Avenue, but he did not provide a motive or suspect description.
NEWS
By Clara Germani and Clara Germani,SUN FOREIGN STAFF | November 5, 1995
MOSCOW -- In the old days, the typical student at Patrice Lumumba University would be a young African, someone who could hope to become his country's first native-born doctor or engineer after graduation. The new graduate would be expected to take communism home with him and preach of its glories. That communist dream is gone, but the university goes on, struggling to survive in free-market style.Patrice Lumumba University -- alma mater of the terrorist "Carlos" and of hundreds of men and women who are government officials throughout the Third World -- now is a cheap and not so choosy institution.
NEWS
By Edward Gunts, The Baltimore Sun | February 14, 2012
A new recycling campaign at the University of Baltimore is urging residents to vote with their trash. University officials are inviting Baltimoreans to answer questions about the city by placing their recycled trash in one of four see-through bins on campus. The first question: "Who is Baltimore's greatest team sports icon?" The possible answers, each with his own bin, are former Baltimore Orioles Brooks Robinson and Cal Ripken Jr. , Baltimore Raven Ray Lewis and former Baltimore Colt Johnny Unitas . The campaign, "Talking Trash: UB Votes to Recycle," is part of a larger effort by the midtown institution to help preserve the environment by reducing energy, promoting public transportation, using sustainable building techniques, and pursuing other "green" initiatives.
NEWS
By Childs Walker, The Baltimore Sun | April 25, 2012
Ronald Weich, an assistant U.S. attorney general and former aide to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, is to be named the next dean of the University of Baltimore School of Law on Wednesday, nine months after his popular predecessor resigned amid a public dispute with the university's president. Given his lengthy experience on Capitol Hill and his lack of time in academia, Weich, 52, is an unconventional choice to lead the law school. But faculty leaders, alumni and students said that's part of the reason they're excited about him after last year's tumult involving former dean Phillip Closius.