49 search results for "No Way, Jose"

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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Again: More trouble for Maryland’s Dept. of Juvenile Services, this time a guard punching naked kids in the groin at the Alfred D. Noyes Children’s Center in Rockville as part of an initiation ritual. Metoric Meters: If cabbies get their way (ever-increasing gas prices are to blame), prices of taxi rides likely to rise...
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The Third Floor is back from Easter vacation, but still way behind, so just fast-and-furious catch-up today. Back to normal tomorrow, hopefully. Patronage Abuse: From today’s Sun, DOT Secretary Bob Flanagan hires another incompetent, this time Anne Arundel County pol/perennial Ehrilich administration employee Phillip Bissett, to head the state’s MARC train system, for more...
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False Profits: I doubt they planned this, but today’s Sun houses two features on somewhat odd, ethically questionable ways to make prophets: Tom Pelton innoculates the Curtis Bay medical-waste incinerator, now under new ownership; and Stephanie Desmon butchers Hagerstown prison‘s meat-processing plant/state moneymaker. Headlights: In the Towson Times, Bob Allen dodges traffic along with...
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Up in Smoke: City Councilman Robert Curran to propose smoking ban in city restaurants/bars bill tonight. O’Rumors: For whatever reason, we’ve been warned continually in the past week or so to be careful of what we e-mail at work. Joseph Steffen and the Ehrlich administration, of course, are finding out the hard way. In...
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Breaking News: Maryland’s U.S. Attorney calls off federal investigation into City Council ethics lapses. Sounds like the right call here. Former U.S. Attorney Thomas DiBiagio and his fishing trips had been completely discredited as purely political attempts to hurt state Dems, while his bosses wanted him to go after terrorists or something like that....
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Free Money: The extension of Key Highway from its endpoint at the Domino Sugar plant to Nicholson Street and Tide Point is much needed. And kudos to the Board of Estimates for coming up with a deal to finance it. But I don’t see anything in there about Struever Bros. Eccles and Rouse, surely...
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Blogghorea: Anyone else tired of the endless series of thumbsuckers about whether or not bloggers are journalists, bloggers taking down newscasters/politicians/(non)journalistis, blahg, blahg, blahg? Too bad: Here’s another one, by The American Prospect‘s Garance Franke-Ruta, which ties together bloggers’ take-downs of “Jeff Gannon” and Eason Jordan with Joseph Steffen’s take-down of himself, and all...
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On the cover, Stephen Janis talks with activists, academics, and government officials who are trying to get the lead out of Baltimore City homes. In it, Janis references a Feb. 13 Sun story about Philip E. Parker, who was killed on a state prison bus, and his suspected killer, Kevin G. Johns Jr., who,...
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I’ve been super-busy the past few days, so let’s catch up on some pretty decent and/or distressing stories from over the weekend and other stuff I’ve found, with maybe a short News Hole later. Charm City Massacre: The fact that 50 Cent‘s new album, The Massacre, features a song, “A Baltimore Love Thing,” that...
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Postmodern Preacher: The Laurel Leader‘s Diane Reynolds soul-searches with Cedar Ridge Community Church‘s Brian McLaren after Time magazine names the local minister “one of the 25 most influential evangelicals in America.” End of the Roll?: The Dundalk Eagle‘s Joseph M. Giordano points and clicks with the few remaining members of the Dundalk Camera Club,...
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What a weird thing this O’Malley marriage rumor debacle has turned out to be. While it’s fascinating like a car wreck, I’m not sure it’s actually means anything besides the obvious political implications. (If it does mean anything, find out what in this Sun story by Abigail Tucker and Stephen Kiehl about How the...
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