Blogs: The News Hole

Ouch: In The Christian Science Monitor, Brad Rourke very meticulously but completely unfairly, as a good columnist should, tears Mayor O’Malley to pieces. Four’s a Crowd: Suzanne Goldenberg, writing for London’s Guardian, steps up to the plate with the fourth, that I’ve counted, (inter)national story on Baltimore’s super-high homicide rate.
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Sorry, The Third Floor’s been out sick the past few days. Instead of playing catch up, I’m just going to forge ahead and pretend like the last few days never happened. Except, I did leave you hanging Thursday morning on the Maurice Blackwell trial, with the jury looking like it was going to hang...
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Well, not too many other big local stories today–besides the arrest of two Eastern Baltimore County 18-year-old boys for Friday’s shooting at Towson Town Center of St. Paul’s School faculty member William Bassett–so straight to the news roundup. Two Percent Savings: Despite saying earlier that it would, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield says it’s not passing...
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Small Potatoes: Interesting, but despite this story’s length, this is by no means an Armstrong Williams-sized story. The Sun‘s Andrew A. Green on WBAL host Chip Franklin, who comments on state politics, gets paid by Maryland Lottery. Third Time’s the Harm (Story of the Day): The Washington Post‘s David Snyder on Rosecroft Raceway getting...
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Watch the Schadenfreude: With regards to Maryland-based conservative commentator Alan Keye’s daughter Maya coming out at the aforementioned V-Day gay-rights rally, CP sex columnist Dan Savage warns gay folks not to get too smug when the children of conservative demagogues come out. Famed USC scientist William French Anderson, the “father of gene therapy,” accused...
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Iraq War Syndrome: Boulder Weekly‘s Joel Warner examines returning war veterans, possibly hurt by military-prescribed sleeping pills. Waves of Grain: The Missoula Independent‘s Chris Bryant pumps ethanol. Also from the MI, Mike Keefe-Feldman on Columbia-based W.R. Grace’s Montana problems. Bush Disliker: Finally, LA Weekly‘s Judith Lewis pushes Collapse author Jared Diamond a little too...
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The trial of defrocked priest Maurice Blackwell–accused of molesting Dontee Stokes, who shot the priest in 2002 (he served 18 months of house arrest on handgun charges, but was acquitted of attempted murder), from ’89-’92 at a West Baltimore church–closed quietly yesterday afternoon. But it looks like the jury, after not reaching a verdict...
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I’m confused with what went on with slots yesterday. The Sun leads with the state Senate killing the attempts by some lawmakers to limit where slots may go (namely not in Prince George’s Co., Timonium, or downtown Baltimore). The Post, however, leads with House members compromising on a bill that would keep slots out...
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In the General Assembly: Group of Baltimoreans, led by ACORN, demand tougher anti-lead-paint law at House committee meeting. And Harford County residents demand tougher clean-groundwater laws at, I think, the same House Environmental Matters Committee meeting. Same committee to hold live where you work legislation hearing today. Harford delegate introduces anti-Segway bill. Legislators push...
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The spotting of a rare-in-America European bird in Frederick County created a flutter of media attention. All you really have to read is this Post story. But here is the AP version, and go to MdBird.org for pictures of the northern lapwing. In The Sun, Kelly Brewington tunes in to El Zol. Dennis O’Brien...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencier editorializes in favor of Hubble Space Telescope. And CP‘s own Russ Smith, writing for OpinionJournal embarassed to be a Baltimorean.
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Read it before it’s gone: Washington City Paper‘s John Metcalfe listens in with jukebox junkies. And in Minneapolis’ City Pages G.R. Anderson Jr. conglomerates with Clear Channel.
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