Gawker has a letter (also authenticated by our sister paper, Orlando Weekly) from Central Florida’s palace-building time share mogul, David Siegel, to his 8,000 employees. In it he tells them that if President Obama is re-elected, he’ll fire them all: “You see, I can no longer support a system that penalizes the productive and...
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Well, the primary election is over–with the lowest turnout in history–and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has coasted to victory over a strong field. On the City Council front, there was an upset and a near upset, with Nick Mosby beating long-time incumbent Belinda Conaway in the 7th District and Shannon Sneed running just 15 votes...
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In the past couple of days, Nick Mosby, who is challenging 7th District City Councilmember Belinda Conaway, has sent out several lurid mailings pointing out Conaway’s issues with the homestead property tax break she and her husband are apparently still receiving on their Randallstown home. One of the mailings features hands gripping prison bars....
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Baltimore is in the midst of two mayoral primaries: the Democratic one, which will almost certainly decide the city’s next mayor, and a rare Republican primary between two little-known candidates who have raised no money and, in one case, have been seldom seen on the hustings. Alfred V. Griffin III, 38, is the organizer...
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City Councilmember Belinda Conaway (D-7th District) today dismissed a lawsuit she filed against the Examiner newspapers, owner Philip Anschutz, and Baltimore blogger Adam Meister. The suit, filed in May, accused them of libel, defamation, and intentional infliction of emotion distress after an online column by Meister, published in March, pointed out public records indicating...
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SCENE: A meeting with mayoral candidate Jody Landers, June 13, at a home in Fells Point. There are seven or eight interns gathered around the dining room table (all white young college students), and one of them pitches the idea of a “green suit” he’d like to wear to drum up press. Landers laughs....
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On the July 15 deadline for candidates to withdraw from this year’s city elections, two people–a Democrat running for the City Council’s 12th District seat and an independent candidate for mayor–scratched their names off the list. Robert Stokes is an aide to incumbent 12th District Councilmember Carl Stokes, who, after announcing a run for...
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Otis Rolley’s mayoral campaign e-mailed out an excited press release about the time he was staging a press conference in front of City Hall. The Sun’s Julie Scharper blogged that here. The catalyst to this–a story about yet another standardized-test-cheating scandal in the city’s school system–is worth a look as well, if you’d not...
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The Democratic primaries on Sept. 14 produced a momentous change in the Baltimore City Senate delegation’s roster: 27-year-old political neophyte William Ferguson trounced longtime 46th District state Sen. George Della, the aging scion of a waterfront dynasty that reaches back several generations. Ferguson is unchallenged in the general election, so there’s no question he’ll...
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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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Former City Councilman and 2007 mayoral candidate Keiffer Mitchell so far has raised more than $35,000 to fund his effort to unseat an incumbent delegate in Baltimore’s 44th Legislative District, according to campaign finance records. That’s the most of the eight candidates in the Democratic primary. But Mitchell has also spent about half of...
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Forty-sixth District Sen. George Della has been representing Baltimore’s waterfront precincts in Annapolis for many moons, as his father did before him. But in light of the latest campaign-finance reports, due yesterday, it looks like the distinguished, gray-haired senator faces a real challenge from 27-year-old upstart Bill Ferguson, a lawyer with a background as...
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OC Alternatives Sizzlin’ Summer Calendar: Assateague Island National Seashore, North Point State Park, Rehoboth Beach, and more 5/15/2013
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Murder Ink Murder Ink: Murders this Week: 5; Murders this Year: 77 By Edward Ericson Jr. 5/15/2013
Crazy Horse Film: Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman puts his focus on Le Crazy Horse de Paris, the French cabaret By Lee Gardner 4/4/2012
How to Throw a Louisiana Style Crawfish Boil! Sizzlin’ Summer: Ordering 1. Figure out how many people you have attending. I usually do this by selling tickets for $25 each via Paypal. 2. Once you know how many people will be attending, you can figure out how many pounds of crawfish you need to order. The suggested a By Ben Claassen III 5/15/2013
Sizzlin’ Summer Sizzlin’ Summer: Summer in Baltimore is a sensory explosion, from the scent of Old Bay-smothered steamed crabs and the taste of marshmallow-topped chocolate snoballs to the smell of Ocean City salt water mixed with sunscreen and the vision of fireflies. 5/15/2013