Sam Daniels (pictured), the executive secretary of the Board of Liquor License Inspectors and a fixture for decades, has announced his retirement, effective July 1 in the wake of a critical state audit of the agency. “OMG……………is it Christmas? Today? Pinch me, seriously!!!” Beth Hawks, a west-side small business owner, wrote in an email...
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Van Smith’s feature goes deep inside the bars of Curtis Bay. In Mobtown Beat, Erin Sullivan reports on the debate over the future of the Charles Village Benefits District. The Nose tracks Baltimore City Council squabbles over a bill to allow property condemnation for industrial redevelopment. Charles Cohen’s Charmed Life gets the lowdown on...
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Last week Rep. Pat McDonough proposed doing for Maryland what something like 30 other states have already done: make secret the state’s list of who is permitted to carry a concealed handgun. I was vacationing in my home state of Connecticut at the time, so I missed all the hubbub about the proposal and...
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Even the chained pit bull knows Joe Cooper is the wrong person with whom he should fuck. From the cowboy boots and second-skin jeans on up to the leather jacket and Stetson hat, Cooper is a black-clad angel of death masquerading as an instrument of social order, a Dallas police detective with a side...
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This week’s feature is Michael Anft’s dissection of conflict over public housing in Northeast Baltimore. In Mobtown Beat, Jill Yesko looks at Southeast Baltimore’s growing immigrant community. The Nose sniffs out a cop with a gun problem and artists with a gun fetish. Tom Chalkley’s Media Circus looks at how the media garbles words....
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David Keith Barbeito, the Maryland-based president of the Pagans Motorcycle Club, was set for sentencing Nov. 19 for his part in the club’s federal racketeering indictment filed last year in West Virginia, but U.S. District Court judge Thomas Johnston rescheduled the proceeding to Dec. 20 (see PDF, below). Barbeito’s plea agreement (see second PDF,...
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Clinton-era Labor Secretary Robert Reich published a lament yesterday on the New York Times op-ed page, noting the huge unemployment rate and the long-term erosion of regular folks’ wages: What families didn’t receive in wage increases they made up for in work increases. By the mid-2000s, the typical male worker was putting in roughly...
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Though state Sen. Catherine Pugh (D-40th District) has a free pass in this year’s elections, she has nearly $200,000 in her campaign kitty. That makes her a key player in her district’s delegates’ race (“One-Man Stand,” Aug. 18), in which she and the incumbents—Frank Conaway Jr., Barbara Robinson, and Shawn Tarrant—have formed the District...
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Though state Sen. Catherine Pugh (D-40th District) has a free pass in this year’s elections, she has nearly $200,000 in her campaign kitty. That makes her a key player in her district’s delegates’ race (“One-Man Stand,” Aug. 18), in which she and the incumbents—Frank Conaway Jr., Barbara Robinson, and Shawn Tarrant—have formed the District...
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David Keith Barbeito of Myersville was already in a lot of trouble when, on May 27, he landed in more. That’s when a federal grand jury in Maryland indicted him for possessing a Colt .45 semiautomatic pistol with an obliterated serial number and a Streetsweeper 12-gauge shotgun not registered to him. The new charges...
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The two-pack of features is Dan Kennedy, on alt-press infighting over flawed journalism that wins awards, and Eileen Murphy, on writer Sophie Kerr and the Washington College literary prize that bears her name. In the news, the Nose pokes around a mysterious sign atop the Congress Hotel, a controversy over firehouse closings , and...
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Today I received the first of what I expect will be a million billion (more) e-mails focused on the tyranny of forcing people to buy health insurance. It came from Joe of Towanda, Pa. (he doesn’t want his name used here—”I know where you’re coming from,” he says). I have no idea why he...
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Did the correctional officer bill of rights enable corruption? Mobtown Beat: Protections afforded accused COs gain spotlight in BGF scandal By Van Smith 5/8/2013
Ain’t the Beer Cold Sizzlin’ Summer: The endless quest for baltimore’s coldest draft beer brought to you by the City Paper I-Team™ 5/15/2013
Outdoor Dining Sizzlin’ Summer: It’s more than just eating outside By Henry Hong 5/15/2013
Festivals and Extra-vals Sizzlin’ Summer Calendar: Charles Village Festival, Baltimore Pride, Maryland State Fair, and more. 5/15/2013