Blogs: The News Hole

Won’t Back Down: Bay Weekly‘s Margaret Tearman stays strong with former U.S. Park Police chief Teresa Chambers, a former PG County cop, who was demoted for remarks–?There are not enough of us to go around to protect those spaces anymore,? she told the Post–made in the wake of Sept. 11. Youth Movement: The Sun‘s...
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With the General Assembly session winding down–for real this time, just five or so days left–there are more than enough stories to rate their own heading for the next few days. Large Employer Tax: Following the lead of its big brother, although succeeding, the state Senate passes a bill that would affect one entity....
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Back to the Courtroom: ACLU’s 10-year-old, $400 million class-action discrimination lawsuit against the city and HUD on behalf of tenants in city projects, after settlement talks break down, headed back to the courts. In the Dark: Minority-owned B&B Lighting Supply says it wants out of city contract. It’s complicated, and a pretty interesting story.
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Defending Your Marriage: Remember those Pennsylvania kissin’ cousins who took advantage of our state’s lenient marriage laws and got hitched in Maryland a few weeks back? Well, they’re back, defending their forbidden love to the media. Namely the AP, in an interview a few days ago. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette‘s Bill Toland then went on...
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A Dispatch from the Third Floor’s old friend Er Uh Cliffie City Paper got about a dozen of these on Tuesday and Wednesday–e-mails from helpful citizens pointing out BIAS (the MSM’s, ours, everyone’s but the writers’) in the polls about and coverage of the Terri Schiavo case: “Dear Baltimore City Paper: It’s now been...
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On the cover, senior writer Van Smith examines the case of Jacqueline Folio, a BPD officer stung by an Internal Affairs Division “integrity test.” For more on the mayor’s plan to reduce crime–by going after cops–check out this position paper (or something like that) from 2001. In Mobtown Beat, Charles Cohen talks with families...
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Bar Clark: No one looked good in this one–what with expletive-laden instant-messages, a police chief never really leaving his hometown, domestic-abuse investigations, etc., etc.–but Ex-Baltimore Police Chief Kevin Clark always seemed to look worst. So it comes as no surprise that he has lost his lawsuit against the mayor, which claimed O’Mayor illegally fired...
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Deja Vu: Gerry from Pikesville won’t stop talking to the Sun‘s Stephen Kiehl. Music critic Tim Smith sings the praises of recently departed La Scala principal conductorRiccardo Muti. Oh yeah, Opening Day! Old Line Lies: The Capital‘s Eric Hartley helps debunk some Maryland Day (that was March 25, for those who missed it) myths.
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Correction: Frederick N. Rasmussen’s Perdue obituary also went over Frank’s, um, creative driving. Frank Perdue picked the wrong weekend to die if he wanted to go out with all eyes on him. Not many chances for in-depth coverage when you’re competing with a pontiff and a political football. But I managed to round up...
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UB Undergrads? I’m not sure if this is a big story–I haven’t seen it picked up elsewhere, the BBJ didn’t put it on the front page–but I think it might be. According to Alan Zibel’s story, University of Baltimore, which has served only upperclassmen and grads since becoming public in 1976, is likely to...
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Stretching the Law: Those interested in campaign finance laws could do a lot worse than read Michael Dresser and Alec MacGillis’ Sunday Sun story Catonsville-based developer Edward A. St. John‘s (and other business owners’) ability to skirt the law and make many donations through multitudes of entities. This sidebar takes a look at what...
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New Montgomery: The Boston Globe‘s Joshua Glenn decamps with Johns Hopkins political economist Francis Fukuyama, who with his realpolitik colleagues are leaving the ever-more-neocon National Interest to form rival journal The American Interest. This has been heavily blogged, so look around if you’re interested.
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