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Monday, November 12, 2012

Council Committee to Hear Racial Profiling Resolution

City Council committees will give hearings to four bills this week.

City Council committees will give hearings to four pieces of legislation this week, including a resolution asking the Baltimore Police Department and Baltimore City Public Schools to abandon the practice of racial profiling, Tuesday: The Judiciary and Legislative Investigations Committee will hold a hearing on updating and adopting various building codes, including adopting updated Maryland Building Performance Standards. Sponsor: City Council President at the request of the Department of Housing and Community Development. Time: 9:30 a.m. Where: City Hall, Clarence H. Du Burns Council Chamber. Wednesday: The Land Use and Transportation Committee will consider legislation creating a planned unit development for BCP Investors on Lot 6505 aka…

Monday, July 16, 2012

Poll: How Would You Reform City Government?

Patch wants to know how our readers would go about changing city elections.

Councilman Bill Henry is set to introduce a series of charter amendments during Monday's City Council meeting on Monday evening (full story later this morning). But we want to know what reforms residents would like to see.  Vote in the poll below and if you have other ideas remember to share them in the comments section. Follow North Baltimore Patch on Facebook and Twitter.

Sean Tully

11:55 pm on Monday, July 16, 2012

Nonpartisan elections is a good first step. Getting the voting public interested enough in their own government would be a big plus. But I suppose we'd better work on getting them to handle their garbage correctly first.   more ›

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