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Baltimore City Council president to lobby Congress on gun control

By The Associated Press

BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s City Council president is headed to D.C. to lobby for a change in gun laws. The city is in the midst of a surge of violent crime and has recorded more than 300 homicides this year.

Baltimore City Council President Bernard “Jack” Young said in a statement Tuesday that he’ll meet with members of Congress and legislative staffers. He said he’ll push for new laws but also stronger enforcement of current ones.

Young said the city’s historic increase in violent crime is tied to a flood of illegal firearms into his city.

Young also said he’ll push for the restriction of the so-called “bump stocks” that turn guns into automatic weapons. Police said the devices were used in the deadly Las Vegas shooting in October.

Key Bridge work to be awarded in separate contracts, in effort to keep costs down

By Maryland Matters
State officials announced this week that they plan to split the work on the Francis Scott Key Bridge into four separate contracts going forward, in hopes of increasing competition and lowering costs. Tuesday’s announcement came three weeks after the Maryland Transportation Authority announced it was parting ways with the current contractor, Kiewit Infrastructure, because of an “unacceptably high” bid on the second phase of what is now, officially at least, projected to be about a $5 billion project.
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