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Check out the zinger on the cover of today’s Examiner: “Mayor’s Ex-Lover Indicted,” with a huge full-color photo of Mayor Sheila Dixon at the dead center of its cover. She has been at the center of the investigation that led to those indictments, after all. And who knows, there still may be another prosecutorial...
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We just read this story in The Sun and wanted to point it out for those who haven’t seen it yet.
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The Baltimore Sun editor Timothy Franklin is leaving the paper effective Jan. 1, 2009 and taking a job at the University of Indiana School of Journalism. Franklin has been editor of the Sun since 2004, when he left his post at the Orlando Sentinel to replace Bill Marimow, who served as editor of the...
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Today the Bivings Group, a Washington-based internet communications firm, released the findings of its 2008 study of how traditional print newspapers are coping with the steady evolution of online content in the media. The organization studied 100 “major” newspapers selected based on circulation (the sampling included USA Today, the New York Times, the Wall...
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A memo posted to Romanesko yesterday indicated that the Tribune Co. plans to make even more cuts at The Baltimore Sun, just a few months after cutting 100 jobs that resulted in the loss of some of the paper’s best talent. According to the memo, this time around there will be no buyout offers–people...
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The day started with an early-morning call from a friend. She had gone to the polls to vote at 7 a.m. near her home in Fairfax, Va., and the line was super long–she waited for more than an hour and a half. She had to get to work on time, though, so she left...
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It’s after 9 p.m. and the polls in Baltimore are closed. But many of us are now watching TV, flipping between CNN and MSNBC, voting on what really matters: Who has the best graphics? Who has the most ridiculous pundits? Which host has the best manscaping? What are you doing tonight? Comment below.
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Baltimore has made another Top 10 list–this time, though, it’s not a list of the most murderous, drug-addled, or crime-ridden cities. Sustain Lane, an online “people-powered guide to sustainable living,” has ranked Baltimore as the 10th most sustainable metropolitan city in the country, ranked right up there with Portland, Ore. (No. 1), Seattle (No....
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On Saturday, WMAR TV posted a news brief on its web site noting that three out of five households in the Baltimore area watched Friday night’s vice-presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. According to Nielsen, Baltimore was the top TV market in terms of viewership for the debate. We can only hope...
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Is a brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai a drug trafficker? Nobody seems to know for certain, not even the feds who say they don’t have solid evidence that Ahmed Wali Karzai is involved in drugs. But a story by The New York Times, which appeared Oct. 4, quotes various White House sources as...
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A friend just sent us a link to a story from tradingmarkets.com about a new biofuels plant being planned for Baltimore. According to the story, New Generation Biofuels Holding entered into a lease with Baltimore’s Atlantic Terminaling for a commercial-scale biofuel-manufacturing plant. The 25-million-gallon-per-year facility is expected to be complete by 2009. According to...
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Got a call today from Brandy Baker, formerly of the Charm City Greens, a Baltimore City chapter of the Green Party. Party activist Ed Boyd, who ran for governor on the Green ticket in 2006, has died. Boyd, a veteran, died of lung cancer. Boyd was the first Green Party candidate to run for...
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