Sheila Dixon

Economic slowdown, weekly trash pickup: We'll live

A h, twice-a-week garbage collection. It was nice while it lasted - 55 years, apparently - but it's time to give up this municipal luxury. It's time to hold our noses and pry this one out of our cold, Hefty Cinch Sak'd fingers.

Two men held in Harris' death

Third person sought in shooting of former city councilman Two men were arrested yesterday in the killing of Kenneth N. Harris Sr., the former city councilman who was fatally shot in a robbery outside a Northeast Baltimore jazz...

Mayor orders 12.9% average budget cuts for departments

City departments must make budget reductions that average 12.9%, Dixon says Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon ordered city agency heads yesterday to reduce their department budgets by an average of 12.9 percent next year, saying...

City rowhouse fire kills two

2-year-old girl, great-grandmother found on second floor of Broadway East home Firefighters found two people dead Thursday after a blaze engulfed this East Baltimore rowhouse in the 2000 block of E. Hoffman St. Neighbors and...

Dixon to slash budget by 10%

City cuts may total $200 million; likely service reductions Mayor Sheila Dixon plans to announce today steep, across-the-board spending cuts - potentially hundreds of millions of dollars - as Baltimore confronts a worsening...

Vision for Uplands presented to city

Development blending urban, suburban elements would begin with apartments Developers of the Uplands, planned as one of the biggest new-home developments in Baltimore in decades, showed a city panel yesterday their vision of the...

Baltimore Police to Curtail Some Moonlighting

Posted: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Concerned that officers are being drawn into an escalating number of violent incidents, Baltimore plans to prohibit police from working off-duty jobs outside bars, clubs and other businesses...

Officials' travel expenses decline

City Council effort to seek further cuts abandoned City Council members looking for cost savings by scouring Baltimore's travel budget abandoned the effort this week after learning that the city was already spending 25 percent...

Club license in jeopardy after fatal Block stabbing

The fatal downtown stabbing of an exotic dancer last week began as a fight among employees inside a strip club on The Block and could place the club's liquor and adult entertainment licenses in jeopardy.

Mayor Dixon rededicates refurbished vets' memorial

Standing in a West Baltimore neighborhood beset by gang violence, Mayor Sheila Dixon rededicated a newly refurbished memorial to World War II veterans yesterday. "Generation after generation, Americans have put on the uniform...