A long-planned expansion of a homeless services center in Upper Fells Point was delayed again on June 22 after a zoning appeal. Neighbors of Beans and Bread, who have fought a planned 7,000-square-foot expansion for years, objected to revised plans that added nearly 500 square feet of additional space to the project after city...
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The two-pack of features is Jay Ulfelder, exploring what Carroll County is doing to prevent school violence, and Eileen Murphy, looking at what Baltimore’s public library problems mean for libraries in general. In Mobtown Beat, Michael Anft focuses on a possible documentary film about the McElderry Park neighborhood. The Nose searches for the lost...
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Molly Rath’s feature looks at what makes Father Charles Anthony Hall Middle School tick. Mobtown Beat is Van Smith on a contributory negligence bill under consideration in Annapolis. The Nose tries to sort out the future of the Rotunda movie theater. Tom Chalkley’s Media Circus condones WBAL-TV reporter Jayne Miller’s double life as a...
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The New York Times’ Dexter Filkins weighed in on Sept. 4 with a strange Week in Review piece on Afghan corruption. It reads rather like setting out the equation 2+2=? and carrying on as if it’s Fermat’s Last Theorem. To explain why the United States supports the drug-running, kleptocratic leaders of “Corrupt-istan,” Filkins explicates...
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As AIG’s former wonderboy, Joe Cassano, tells congress that he regrets nothing and by the way, is still right, Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story of the New York Times are telling us something we didn’t already know about the $180 billion AIG bailout. No, not that it really was meant to benefit a few...
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Joseph Cassano, the AIG Financial Products chief whose small division brought down the giant insurance company and prompted a $180 billion government bailout, will not be charged either criminally or civilly, the Wall Street Journal reports. That brings the count of people held responsible for the greatest financial debacle since at least the 1930s...
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Molly Rath’s feature, “Swimming with Sharks,” reveals a nascent credit crisis from a decade ago, when homeowners in Baltimore’s poorest neighborhoods were underwater from refinancing packages sold by subprime lenders. In Mobtown Beat, Brian Simpson reports on the city’s efforts to back up police crackdowns with neighborhood services, and Eileen Murphy notes an exodus...
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Tom Chalkley’s feature considers Frederick Douglass’ legacy in Baltimore, where ambivalence about the city’s slave-trade legacy continues. The piece includes insights from a man who calls himself Frederick Douglass IV, who, it later came to light, falsely portrayed himself as the famous abolitionist’s great-great-grandson. In Mobtown Beat, Brennen Jensen showcases AIDS-prevention group Positive Voices,...
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Brennen Jensen, in one of this week’s two features, learns bar-room history from the famous matron of Club Charles, Esther Martin: “‘Esther did the right thing,’ Waters says. “‘She changed it from the scariest bar in Baltimore into the coolest.’” In the other feature, Molly Rath’s “Education Inc.,” two private companies looking to...
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The murder of Roger Dennis, a 25-year-old African-American man, has been closed by exception. Dennis was shot in the 1900 block of West North Avenue in 1997. He died on Aug. 1, 2008. The man police believe was responsible for Dennis’ death has died. The March 6, 2009 murder of Herbert Carsten Jr, a...
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Lynae Chapman Warren Brown is highly exercised on Dec. 9, as he returns to the defense table from Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge David Young’s bench. “I’ll say for the record, your honor,” the criminal-defense attorney declares, “that the state can forget about any help from this young lady.” Brown is referring to his...
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Jose Joaquin Morales, the unlicensed mason, thief, firebug and drug dealer caught trying to smuggle six kilos of cocaine to Baltimore last August, has pleaded guilty to that crime, taken responsibility for his actions, and apologized to the government. He should have been sentenced today, Oct. 14, according to docket information available through the...
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