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Mayor would reduce property taxes, trim city employee benefits

By Luke Broadwater The Baltimore Sun

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called Monday for “bold reforms” to fix a looming financial shortfall, including requiring more city workers to contribute to their retirement fund, charging residents for trash collection, asking firefighters to work longer hours and cutting the city workforce by 10 percent over time. In return, she said, the city could use the savings to raise employee salaries and cut property taxes by 22 percent — 50 cents per $100 of assessed value — over the next decade. Delivering her annual State of the City address, the mayor did not offer Rawlings-Blake specifics of her proposals but said she would introduce legislation in TONY GENTILE/REUTERS PHOTO coming weeks and months. Pope Benedict XVI arrives to lead a Mass at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome last month. He is stepping down Feb. 28. “This plan doesn’t solve all our prob- lems,” Rawlings-Blake said. “No realistic By Yvonne Wenger INSIDE plan ever does. But it will show with greater The Baltimore Sun confidence that Baltimore, more than any The contenders other city in America, is taking respon- Crystal Sewell knows what she wants to see sibility and getting its own house in order.” in the next pope: a combination of the last two. Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to resign has “We cannot build the foundation of a “I’m a conservative soul,” the 29-year-old growing city on the mud of a fiscal swamp,” Reservoir Hill woman said Monday after the rekindled debate within the Roman Catholic she said. midday Mass at St. Alphonsus Church in Church and worldwide speculation about the The speech was generally well-received downtown Baltimore. “I feel like John Paul II possibility that it will reach beyond the Euro- See CITY, page 10 had this particular zeal for youth and that pean clergy, who have long held power in the brought the youth closer to the Church. Benedict took over with instilling older tradi- Vatican, for the next pope. NEWS PG 8 tions into today’s youth, which brings a whole new focus on what it means to be Catholic MAKING HISTORY: The last pope to resign was SUMMARY today.” Gregory XII, who stepped down in 1415 as part of a OF THE NEWS Archbishop William E. Lori said the suc- deal to resolve the Great Western Schism that had three rival popes. NEWS PG 8 cessor to Pope Benedict XVI, to be chosen next L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO PHOTO MARYLAND month by the College of Cardinals, must be “a Pope Benedict XVI blesses BENEDICT’S IMPACT: An assessment of the faithful and loving teacher” with a “pastor’s cardinals Monday at the Roman Catholic Church worldwide as Pope Bene- DROPOUT, GRADUATION RATES IMPROVE: heart” who is “capable of embracing 1billion Vatican. He says health prob- dict steps aside, handing to his successor author- Baltimore continues to lead area school systems See POPE, page 10 lems forced him to resign. ity over 1billion Catholics. NEWS PG 9 in improving its dropout rate, and most districts in the region are making progress in graduating more students in four years, according to new data released Monday. NEWS PG 2 New media capturing old industry STANDING BETWEEN KIDS, GANGS: Dan Rodricks profiles Richard “Rico” White, the new operator of the Hollywood Diner, who has been UMBC project is preserving history of helping youths extricate themselves from gangs Sparrows Point mill through website, film for years. NEWS PG 3 NATION By Julie Scharper | The Baltimore Sun STATE OF THE UNION: About two dozen When Eddie Bartee started working at the Sparrows Point steel House Democrats are taking people who have mill in 1955, about 35,000 men toiled at the eastern Baltimore been affected by gun violence to the president’s County plant. Over the next four decades, he made a comfortable speech tonight. NEWS PG 6 life for his wife and their six children as he moved through the ranks at the mill. TODAY’S WEATHER Now, with the plant closed and machinery being sold for scrap, Bartee and other steelworkers are teaming with University of SOME SUN Maryland, Baltimore County students and professors to record their stories. The students are making a website and helping with adocumentary to preserve the history of the plant. 48 31 KIM HAIRSTON/BALTIMORE SUN PHOTO “It was no utopia, but I and a lot of my friends made a good HIGH LOW Eddie Bartee, a 78-year-old retired steelworker, speaks to Univer- living at Sparrows Point,” Bartee said last week as the students sity of Maryland, Baltimore County interviewers. See SPARROWS POINT, page 13 Rain/snow possible Wednesday SPORTS PG 10

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