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Baltimore is best place in U.S. to find a tech job [ReadWriteWeb]: “Hunter Sherman, the chief engineer at Sparks, Maryland-based BizBrag, Inc., said the company is struggling to find qualified people to fill its jobs. As a result, BizBrag is planning to move [to Baltimore].”
How to transform open government data into a powerful tool useful for citizens [GBTC]: “Open data has many benefits, empowering citizens with detailed accounts of the actions of their city’s agencies. Communities are ready to participate in Collaborative Organization, commenting, rating, and up/downvoting the actions of their government that Open Data reveals.”
BGE files a request for rate increase for electricity and gas distribution [Baltimore Business Journal]: “Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. residential customers would see the electric distribution portion of their bills rise by about 6.6 percent under a rate increase request the utility filed with the Maryland Public Service Commission….”
City’s challenges won’t be solved by Greater Baltimore Committee’s “game changers” [Citybizlist]: “One of the weird patterns in Baltimore is that every organization focused on economic development has created a tech initiative and populated it with kindred spirits to the organization, ensuring that those invited hold comfortable opinions to the status quo.”