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    It takes a deep dive in the murky waters of City Hall contracting practices to explain how project costs balloon so dramatically.

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    Jan 27, 2012 at 8:28 am

    A three-line item – tucked away inside the 71 pages of this week’s Board of Estimates agenda – offers a peek into the use of “extra work orders” by city agencies. It’s these little line entries that can add millions of dollars to city contracts.

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  • mc cormick spice site

    The former McCormick spice plant, one block from Harborplace, has been a parking lot since the mid-1980s.

    Photo by: Mark Reutter

    Jan 26, 2012 at 1:04 pm

    One of the developers vying to build a new headquarters for Exelon in downtown Baltimore is asking for a lucrative tax break. And the city is quietly moving ahead to get the tax break in place. An exclusive BREW report.

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  • rec center greenmount

    City officials inspect the Greenmount rec center earlier this month. It was one of only five facilities bid on by private parties today.

    Photo by: Mark Reutter

    Jan 25, 2012 at 8:35 pm

    The Rawlings-Blake administration was expecting a large turnout during its second round of bids to privatize city recreation centers. It didn’t happen. Instead, three new parties and two previously rejected parties submitted bids by today’s deadline. The Brew gives you the latest details.

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  • 4901 Boston St

    This undeveloped property bordered by I-895 south of Greektown is set to be sold at a low price.

    Photo by: Mark Reutter

    Jan 24, 2012 at 7:38 pm

    The comptroller’s office goes back to a Towson developer with whom City Hall terminated a contract in 2004 – and agrees to lower the price of the parcel by 65%. A strange transaction up for approval by the Board of Estimates tomorrow. ((SEE UPDATE.))

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  • January 27, 2012

    • Catching up on a slew of interesting things to do and read this weekend that we almost lost track of in the Kickstarter hub-bub. Here are just a few: SATURDAY (1/28/12) New Mercury Non-fiction Reading – Check out tell-it-like-it-is education blogger Edit Barry (see below) and a pack of other feisty non-fictional characters from the [...]

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  • January 23, 2012

    • A meeting that was supposed to take place last week between WBAL-1090 radio management and “Detour Dave” Sandler to discuss the veteran traffic reporter’s future was postponed, Sandler said today. In a Jan. 13 post, The Brew had reported on the planned meeting, amid rumors that the ailing Sandler was being dropped by the Hearst-owned [...]

  • January 20, 2012

    • Gov. Martin O’Malley has scheduled a news conference this afternoon to announce that the Sparrows Point steel mill has reopened. None of this is news for Brew readers, of course, but the governor has been eager to show that he was active in helping RG Steel overcome its liquidity crisis, which led to the shutdown [...]

  • January 17, 2012

    • ((UPDATE: The funds for more beds were approved, as expected, at the BOE meeting.)) The Baltimore Board of Estimates is expected to approve funding for an additional 25 women’s and 50 men’s emergency beds at the new city shelter to handle the influx of homeless between now and March 31. The new beds receiving funding [...]

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