When Santoni’s, the 83-year-old independent grocery store in Highlandtown, announced it was closing a few days ago, chief financial officer Robert N. Santoni Jr. named the city’s five-cent bottle tax as the “sole” reason. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake quickly shot back with a refutation, saying the business’s struggles are due to “the depths of the nation’s […]
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