Day: August 7, 2014

Baltimore neighborhood looks forward to funds from new Horseshoe casino

Baltimore neighborhood looks forward to funds from new Horseshoe casino

The residents of Westport, a worn-down Baltimore neighborhood dwarfed by the elevated highways that run over it, say they’ve always felt ignored. Now, the sleek stone-and-glass Horseshoe Casino is rising at the edge of Westport, just south of Baltimore’s stadiums. And Westport, like other neighborhoods that surround the casino, will share in millions of dollars every year for community improvements — a part of the state’s cut of gambling revenues.

State Roundup, August 7, 2014

Gov. O’Malley touts decrease in “preventable hospitalizations;” PSC rules that Uber is a common carrier, orders crafting of new rules to meet new technologies; O’Malley tours flood damaged Clear Spring; almost half of state’s higher ed students study at state community colleges; O’Malley accepts private donation for Maryland crab labeling campaign; Hogan, Brown set TV debate for October; Sierra Club backs Brown for governor; and new head of Civil Rights Commission named.

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