Category Archives: Baltimore Politics

Dixon sentence official, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to be sworn is as Mayor at noon

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State of Pleasant Living

Today Governor O’Malley will deliver his annual State of the State Address.  Most likely the Governor will lay out policies that will right the economy and create jobs.  And just as likely those on the right will tell us how these policies will lead to Maryland’s financial ruin if not the apocalypse.  While the bickering [...]

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O’Malley, Baltimore get the Last Laugh

Last weekend the Baltimore Ravens suffered a devastating loss to the Indianapolis Colts. The loss was especially hard to take given that the team from Indianapolis was wearing Baltimore uniforms and displaying a Baltimore mascot. Sure, it happend a quarter century ago, but Baltimore fans still haven’t gotten over the loss of our beloved Colts [...]

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New Alcohol Tax

With Maryland struggling to achieve a balanced budget and fund existing programs, the state is on a scavenger hunt of sorts to find untapped sources of revenue. One of the ideas currently gaining momentum is a ten cent per drink increase to the alcohol tax. The money from such a tax would go in part [...]

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City homicides rise in '09

With multiple shootings over the holiday weekend the Baltimore City homicide count reached 235, passing the 234 the city experienced in 2008.  This is clearly not the direction the city government and police force wanted to go in this year, but the BCPD is quick to point out that while homicides may have exceeded the [...]

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Greetin's from Joe from Arbutus

Hey, how yall doon out ‘ere in da blogissfeer. This ma first post soze I jus wanted ta innerdeuce mah self.  Names Joe from Arbutus, an I never did wunner these ‘afore soz lets have a go at it.  firs thins firs, how the heck did I get on thinernets. where i come from, thinnernets [...]

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MD Government Taking Charge On Renewable Energy

Earlier this week Governor O’Malley announced the establishment of an agreement between the MD State Government, the University System of Maryland, and a group of wind and solar farms, being built over the next four years, in which almost 25% of the power used in the state’s offices and university campuses would be purchased from [...]

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Reputation

An article in yesterday’s Sun has brought up the question of how the city’s reputation has and will be effected by the conviction of mayor Sheila Dixon.  While the article shows both sides of this argument I fall heavily on the side that thinks this a serious negative hit for the city.  Let’s be honest, [...]

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Cheesy Pro-Marriage Signs get the Bmore Treatment

This sign is part of a long tradition of Baltimoreans defacing cheesy slogans to make them funny (and also insulting to our city). It’s right up there with those benches that are supposed to read “Baltimre, the city that reads” but now say “Baltimore, the city that breeds.” Do people think this graffiti is done [...]

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Baltimore Public Transport

I took last week off and made a quick trip across the pond to Denmark. For the duration of my 8 hour flight I had the pleasure of sitting next to a nice Danish engineering professor who was now living in DC. We got the chance to talk  politics and I was afforded the opportunity [...]

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