President Donald Trump said he had a “great meeting” Tuesday with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, hours after bashing the company and accusing it of not treating him well because he’s a Republican.
Trump uses Twitter extensively to get his message out, particularly since the release of special counsel…
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Charmed Hemp, which claims to be Baltimore’s first hemp dispensary, is now open after it held its grand opening this weekend.
The Upper Fells Point business wrote on social media that it officially opened April 20, known as a sort of celebratory holiday among the cannabis community.
The state’s…
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T. Rowe Price Group said Tuesday that it filed notice with state officials in Florida that its previously announced closure of a call center in Tampa, Fla., will result in 169 people losing their jobs.
The Baltimore-based money management firm announced last year that it would close the center,…
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Baltimore housing officials have issued a fresh $500 citation and code violation notice against Democratic Mayor Catherine Pugh, faulting her for a new roof on her Ashburton home that doesn’t meet historic preservation standards.
A housing code violation issued Monday orders Pugh to remove any…
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Baltimore City is looking for developers to come up with new uses for three buildings once used as schools, plus a historic mansion.
The Baltimore City Department of Housing & Community Development has issued requests for proposals for the buildings, in the Upton, Coldspring and Waverly neighborhoods.
…
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Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s initial proposal for a high-speed, 35-mile “Loop” tunnel between Baltimore and Washington took a step forward in the process toward government approval with the release of a environmental assessment by federal regulators.
But the “Loop” in the draft environmental…
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Sinclair Broadcast Group is reportedly poised to buy a group of 21 Fox regional sports networks from Disney in a deal to be announced perhaps as early as this week.
Sinclair, the Hunt Valley-based broadcaster, has emerged as the front-runner in the auction for the sports networks, according to …
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About two-thirds of electricity powering Johns Hopkins University campuses across Maryland will come from a Virginia solar farm starting in 2021.
The university announced a deal Monday to buy about 250,000 megawatt-hours of electricity from the project each year for 15 years.
Officials said they…
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KeyW Holding Corp., a Hanover-based cybersecurity firm serving the U.S. intelligence communtiy, will be acquired by Jacobs, a global engineering firm headquartered in Dallas, for $815 million.
The acquisition would end the 11-year run of KeyW, which was founded in 2008 by Leonard Moodispaw, a former…
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The Halethorpe Pharmacy, a staple in the community for more than 100 years, is closing its doors for the final time April 23, as the owner cited the difficulty in operating an independent pharmacy nowadays.
Owner-pharmacist George Garmer announced in a long, heartfelt letter posted on Facebook…
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Raymond Arsenault 