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[...] an official with the management company, Market House Ventures LLC, said the city continues to impose unreasonable demands for prospective vendors and wants to exercise veto power on who occupies the space -- an attempt to overreach the authority outlined in the 2005 lease.

May 21--The Anne Arundel County Council rejected yesterday a proposal to raise the local hotel tax, bowing to pressure from local and state tourism officials and business owners who said the measure would drive away visitors strapped by the depressed economy.

FUNK's efforts join a broader initiative that intensifies the city's focus on violent residents, increases police patrols, lighting and security cameras in public housing communities and funds mentoring programs for youths.

A convergence of factors -- a sharp rise in food prices not seen since the 1970s, climbing transportation costs as oil tops $120 a barrel and growing labor costs -- has cash-strapped schools doing some creative penny-pinching and raising meal prices. School officials in Baltimore City, where nearly nine out of 10 meals go to low-income students, say they're looking to trim costs rather than raise prices.

With the oyster plant battered and in disrepair, the museum has operated out of a cramped barge house on its property near the mouth of the Severn River. If all goes according to plan, visitors will learn about oysters and their role in Maryland's ecology, history and commerce through an aquarium and touch-screen panels, while listening to the recorded voices of watermen describing the life.

County budget director John Hammond said last week that the school district \"asked for more money for health insurance than is needed\" and that he hopes the district will dip into its $17 million health care reserve fund to cover the negotiated benefits costs. School administrators lobbied County Council members for more funding at a hearing April 25, and a leader of the local teachers union pledged to launch an information picket that would get the county's 6,000 teachers to bombard County Council members and the school board with letters calling for a more reasonable approach.

Initially, only parts of the two school buildings were dark, and utility crews had expected to restore light by 9 this morning, said schools spokesman Bob Mosier.

A new redistricting plan approved by the school board last week seeks to solve Crofton's woes by moving 210 of the elementary school's students from the Walden community to the new Gambrills-area elementary school, which will open on Nantucket Drive this fall with a capacity of 713 students.

Apr. 16--Angry County Council members yesterday accused the Anne Arundel County school system of vilifying the county government for the superintendent's proposal to leave 200 teaching positions unfilled, with the council chairwoman blasting school officials for running one hell of a PR [public relations] scam.