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Mayor proposes bottle tax hike for school repairs fund BY JACQUELINE WATTS
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When the City of Baltimore imposed a two-cent container tax Photo in the summer of 2010, Illustration by the tax had a “sunset Chad Smith clause”— that is, if the City Council did not renew it, the tax would expire on July 25, 2013. Don’t count on it. The polls had barely closed last week when Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, elected with 84 percent of the vote, proposed raising the container tax from two cents to a nickel, with the proceeds going to support a fund for school construction and repair that had been authorized by a charter amendment that passed with 87 percent. CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
Get the Glee experience (without Sue Sylvester) at the Creative Alliance on Friday. B.Y.O. high school spirit.
BY MARY HELEN SPRECHER EDITOR@BALTIMOREGUIDE.COM If you know who Sue Sylvester is. If you know what a Cheerio is. If you know your way around the halls of William McKinley High School. ...you’re a Gleek, or in other words, a big ol’ fan of the hit TV show (or perhaps phenomenon would be a better
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Dunbar trounces Southside, 50-6, in first round of playoffs BY JASON BUTT SPORTS@BALTIMOREGUIDE.COM Dunbar completed step one in defending its state championship by defeating the Southside Academy Jaguars 50-6 last Saturday. For the Poets, it was easy sledding throughout, even though the offense got off to a slow start. Dunbar turned the ball over
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