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Michael Andretti is the titular head of the “turn-key” marketing firm set to run the Baltimore Grand Prix.
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Grand Prix racing into the unknown with latest team of promoters
Mark Reutter May 16, 2012 at 7:06 am
We take a hard look at the city’s contract with Race On LLC, set to be approved today by the Board of Estimates, and at the untested investors and untried marketing plan behind the race, which is rolling into Baltimore just 109 days from now.
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Former parks chief Chris Delaporte says City Hall needs a “public recreation ethic” before hiring a new parks chief
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Creating a public recreation ethic for City Hall
Chris Delaporte May 15, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Poor Recreation and Parks. Since the mid 1980s they’ve changed directors 15 times. And poor Baltimore, whose parks, pools and rec centers have fallen into decline over those years. Without a real change in mindset, writes a former parks chief from the Schaefer era, filling the job yet again will be a waste.
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Councilmembers said they’d vote “yes” for a bottle tax to help city schools, but one man may make their position moot.
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Likening the bottle tax hike to “a bake sale,” Stokes defies crowd
Fern Shen May 15, 2012 at 11:30 am
KIPP cheerleaders shimmied for him, their marching band played for him and speakers young and old implored him, but Carl Stokes is still bottling up the mayor’s bottle tax bill, saying there are better ways to raise funds for school repairs.
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An aerial view of the sprawling Sparrows Point steel mill in 2007.
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Sparrows Point is in a “liquidity crisis,” union president says
Mark Reutter May 14, 2012 at 11:02 pm
Joe Rosel, president of Sparrows Point Local 9477, confirms reports in The Brew that the Baltimore County steel mill is in a liquidity crisis. Worse, the plant has lost a large number of customer orders. Some layoffs are expected to begin next week, a union memo reveals tonight.
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May 16, 2012
- Delaporte, Stokes call for city audits on Steiner Show
  The idea of pushing Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to regularly audit the books of Baltimore city departments got a (literal) airing yesterday on the Marc Steiner Show, as former city Recreation and Parks Department Director Chris Delaporte and three City Councilmen came on the program to discuss it. (Podcast here.) Listeners calling in provided perhaps the [...]
- BOE awards Grand Prix contract to Race On
  As expected, the Board of Estimates this morning approved Race On LLC as the latest organizer of the Baltimore Grand Prix. The agreement gives the newly-formed company, headed by James “J.P.” Grant and Gregory K. O’Neill, the right to conduct an annual Indy Car and/or American Le Mans Series event on downtown streets over the [...]
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