I grew up in the Dundalk area of town and graduated from Patapsco High School way back in 1988. I’m a Baltimore Boy through and through – if you cut me I bleed Old Bay and Natty Boh. It took many years for me to accept this about myself. When I was growing up...
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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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That’s not the stated reasoning—that would be testing, again, the viability of a heavy-rail option for the much-needed east-west transit line—but that would be the probable outcome if the Senate gets its wish: a full restudy of the Red Line, Purple Line, and Corridor Cities Transitway, three public-transportation projects proposed in Maryland. The House...
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On March 8 the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Maryland announced that Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced former federal fugitive Shawn Green to 12 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute 330 pounds of cocaine. In December, Green pled guilty to charges of drug dealing and being part of the conspiracy....
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The Greater Greater Washington blog and The Baltimore Sun‘s Getting There blog—both generally excellent regional transportation sites—have two recent posts up discussing the possibility of allowing bicycles on MARC trains. It’s an issue that doesn’t come up much because, I imagine, MARC’s incompatibility with bicycles is largely taken for granted at this point—or at...
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Steve Geppi, back when money wasn’t such an issue. On June 1, the Maine coast on-line news site Village Soup, which publishes the Camden Herald Gazette, reported that Steven Geppi and a partner were sued in federal court over $600,000 in bad debt owed Camden National Bank. Their properties on the Maine coast, purchased...
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Gov. Martin O’Malley and the Maryland State Arts Council wants your help in supporting the arts in Maryland. According to an Aug. 7 press release, O’Malley and MSAC have launched Imagine Maryland, a “community collaboration and cultural planning initiative to identify opportunities and ideas that will enhance the role of the arts in Maryland.”...
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YOU GOTTA BE IN IT TO WIN IT: This year Charles Ulysses Smith is embarking on his seventh campaign for political office. | Image by Frank Klein Waiting next to the copy machine in the post office on Fayette Street, Charles Ulysses Smith doesn’t look like a politician. His thick bifocals magnify his eyes,...
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Missed It: As a journalist, I’m practically required to check out Jim Romenesko’s media news blog daily, but I don’t, so I missed C-Span CEO Brian Lamb‘s Feb. 27 interview with Lt. Gov. Michael Steele. In it, Steele, says he has “no use” for The Sun due to that long-ago editorial that said the...
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