One eye on Baltimore City

 I lived in Baltimore City from 1959-2004 and ran for the Baltimore City Council (then 1st District) on the GOP slate in 1999. In the 1980s I spent a lot of time in Fells Point/Little Italy area which was a part of the 1st district. Chesley Patterson, the general manager at La Scala restaurant, was found suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest in the 1700 block of Eastern Avenue around 12:30AM on 1/24/22 and later died. On 4/13/22 Samuel Wise was charged with first-degree murder of Patterson.

Some background on Baltimore City expansion.  In 1817 the city expanded as far as North Avenue, a second move in 1888 up to about 40th Street, and a third in the early years of the 20th Century to close to its present day lines.

Earlier blog on Baltimore related topics: Rappin brown on Cambridge

April 20, 2022

Mayor Brandon Scott's reply to the 100th murder in Baltimore City this year: his violence prevention ecosystem. Mr Mayor, you need a nap.

April 24, 2022

This will probably end any chances for the Washington DC/Baltimore bid to host 2026 World Cup games. FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland, dropped out of bidding.

April 30, 2022

Three Maryland news organizations, The Daily Record, The Baltimore Sun, and The Baltimore Banner have requested that the court unseal documents in the federal case against Baltimore City State's Attorney Mosby. Mosby's lawyers want some documents sealed.

May 8, 2022

Former Baltimore City Mayor Catherine Pugh is back in her home in Ashburton, which was originally supposed to be part of her restitution deal with the Feds, after serving two years in federal prison. Plus, she may get a local radio talk show. Crime Pays!

May 17, 2022

Shooting in Federal Hill, which was part of the 1st District, when I ran for City Council in 1999. 1000 block of South Charles St, not far from the original Hammerjacks. In 1980 I rented an apartment on the 1100 block of William Street.

May 26, 2022

Scorched earth attack: Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby released a list of more than 300 Baltimore City police officers that her office claims have credibility issues. Total F'n mess!

June 14, 2022

Pelosi visited Baltimore yesterday to help unveil new home for fireboat named after her father, The Mayor Thomas D'Alessandro Jr. I grew up hearing you had to be Italian to get a contract to pave a road in Baltimore City. And before anyone gets offended, I'm a McWop, 3/4 Irish, 1/4 Italian.

June 19, 2022

 Jade Kala Johnson, 24, an aide to Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby, was arrested on June 6 in Baltimore County on gun and drug charges. She's a recently hired city employee who does not appear on the city's database. How about the Mosbys- what a duo?

June 23, 2022

Judge Nugent wants to see Baltimore prosecutor Mosby in court over comments she made during a radio interview despite the judge issuing a gag order in the Keith Davis Jr. case.

Aug 9, 2022

Mosby’s attorneys asked Judge Lydia Griggsby to prevent the prosecution from using various phrases during the trial, including ‘financial hardship,’ because explaining how Mosby spent the money she withdrew from her retirement account would negatively impact a jury pool. Sure feels like desperation!

Aug 30, 2022

Baltimore Deputy Mayor Ted Carter resigned possibly due to inappropriate behavior around women. In 1996 he, was a staffer in the Clinton administration.

Sept 30, 2022

Jamie Lee Henry, a former staff internist at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg, and his wife Anna Gabrielian, 36, an anesthesiologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, have been charged with conspiring to disclose personal medical records to the Russian government.  

Nov 25, 2022

Steny Hoyer will step down from his leadership role for Democrats in the House of Representatives but remain the representative for Maryland's 5th Congressional District, which includes parts of PG. and Anne Arundel counties. Let's see how this changes federal $$$ to MD.

Dec 10, 2022

The U.S. Patent Office rejected the Ravens initial application to trademark the term Charm City, saying it is primarily geographically descriptive. The Ravens claim their intent is not to prevent anyone from the general use of "Charm City,", which I ain't buying.

Dec 16, 2022

Baltimore City Council approved a resolution sponsored by Nick Mosby to honor his wife, State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who faces federal perjury charges.  Councilman Zeke Cohen voted against the measure claiming it was inappropriate.

 Welcome to Charm City!!!!

Jan 27, 2023

Ex-Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s entire legal team wants to withdraw from her case. Another ploy for more time.

Feb 21, 2023

 O's CEO John Angelos and his brother Louis have agreed to end their dispute over a lawsuit in which Louis accused John of seizing control of the team in defiance of Peter Angleos', their dad, wishes. 

Also, they are negotiating a new lease at OPACY. Perhaps this will end the talk of the O's moving to Nashville or elsewhere.

March 17, 2023

Baltimore City Council President #NickMosby is seeking re-election. Baltimore deserves a break from the corrupt Mosbys.

June 12, 2023

Baltimore Police Dept Acting Commissioner Rich Worley is a Baltimore native but does not reside in the city. Same old sh^t.

June 28, 2023

Montgomery County(MD) is limiting access to a public meeting about providing an opt-out option for parents who object to gender and sexuality lessons. 

July 30, 2023

  Since the federal government considers cannabis sales illegal, don't pull out your MasterCard to buy cannabis at Maryland dispensaries.

Aug 26,2023

 On finding out his GM stole about 500K: Ed Hale, the owner of the Baltomore Blast indoor soccer team since 1988. "I'm a former CIA agent. So, I don't get fooled very often. I got fooled." Should I wonder about CIA instructors or Hale, who's faced banking investigations a few times?

Sept 24,2023

Baltimore's failures: I addressed them in my futile 1999 GOP run for Bmore City Council. I spent a lot of time campaigning with the Libertarian candidate. Three seats were up for grabs in the 1st district and the three Dems won. Two R and one L lost. A few ladies told me I looked like a nice Irish catholic boy and would win if I were a Dem.

Nov 1, 2023

FBI raids office of Safe Streets, which uses ex-offenders as ‘violence interrupters’ to ward off crime in Baltimore City. 

Investigators found ammunition belonging to an employee, which not allowed by law. The raid occurred at the Belair-Edison (my childhood neighborhood) branch. Also rumors of fiscal mismanagement.

Nov 10, 2023

Marilyn Mosby convicted on two counts of perjury by a federal jury.

 She falsely claimed financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to withdraw money from the city's retirement fund.

Nov 22, 2023

Fourth Circuit struck down Maryland's "HQL" law requiring potential handgun owners to go through a qualification process. 

"The answer is not complicated. If you do not already own a handgun, then the only way to 'keep' or 'bear' one is to get one, either through sale, rental, or gift. And the challenged law cuts off all three avenues -- at least, for those who do not comply with its terms," 

U.S. Fourth Circuit Court Judge Julius N. Richardson.

Jan 7, 2023

The Maryland Board of Public Works approved a $32 million contract that covers the replacement of the pavement on the runway, improvements for taxi connections and upgrades to electrical components at Martin State Airport.

It is a joint civil-military public use airport located nine nautical miles east of the central business district of Baltimore,

It was the former plant airport for the Glenn L. Martin Company, a major producer of military aircraft. between the 1920s and 1960s.

Jan 23, 2024

Marilyn Mosby's, former States Attorney for Baltimore. has a “not my job” defense, My husband did the taxes, and I didn’t know there was debt.

Feb 13, 2024

Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby is running for re-election and defending his handling of his finances and his testimony that it led to his ex-wife, former City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s, federal fraud convictions.

Feb 25, 2024

MD judicial officials told state lawmakers the federal funding for GPS monitoring program for home defendants dried up, which means defendants who would be eligible for coverage might be forced to find a way to pay or go to jail. NO surprise! MD is addicted to fed funds.

March 6, 2024

Sheila Dixon, who was found a guilty of "fraudulent misappropriation by a fiduciary" and stepped down as Baltimore Mayor in 2010, is ahead Mayor Scott in the latest Mayoral polls.

April 3, 2024

Crews opened a second temporary channel on FSK Bridge, which is open primarily to vessels that are helping with the cleanup effort and some barges and tugs that have been stuck in the Port of Baltimore.

Work is ongoing to open a third channel that will allow larger vessels to pass through the bottleneck. are 

April 16, 2024

Anonymous report that alarms went off on some of the refrigerated containers on the Dali when it docked in Baltimore before it sailed and knocked down the FSK bridge. 

This indicates an inconsistent power supply,

April 20, 2024

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, who endorses Scott's opponent Dixon, allegedly settle public dispute with joint statement that they'll meet weekly. Goofy stuff!

June 19, 2024

Chef Ashish Alfred has shut down three restaurants, Duck Duck Goose, Osteria Pirata,and the Anchor Tavern. No mention of dates to re-open.

Declining revenue! Also, “The perception of those outside the city and even a lot of those within the city is that Fells Point and downtown Baltimore are just not safe.”

July 5, 2024

On Baltimore City ballot in November:  Baby Bonus Fund to give 1k to new parents in an effort to reduce the effect of child poverty. WTF!

The likely cost about 7M which ain't no Big deal according to the  Maryland Child Alliance which collected signatures to get the Amendment on the ballot.

Aug 3, 2024

Johnny (O)Olszewski,  the Baltimore County executive and congressional candidate is facing possible allegations of corruption for his shaky financial moves with the Tirabassi brothers,  and this  could give Klacik (R)  a chance to win a seat in Congress.

    Baltimore County paid Philip Tirabassi 83K when he  requested to transfer retirement credits for his city firefighter service time to his county pension. Officials warned the payment could break state and local laws.

John Tirabassi sold the county $4 million worth of dump trucks through his employer, Peterbilt.

 Tirabassi family handled Olszewski's purchase and sale of property in St. Helena and the acquisition of land for his new residence on Millers Island.

Aug 15, 2024

Renew Baltimore filed an appeal with the SC of Maryland to overturn a city judge’s decision, which keeps the question to cut the property tax rate in half over seven years off the November ballot. The group is Ballots for the 2024 election are due to be published Sept. 6.

The group cites a 1990 case in Anne Arundel County(MD) that allowed voters to set the property tax rate. City officials claim only the Baltimore City Council can do that.

Sept 13, 2024

Investigators of Baltimore’s FSK Bridge collapse discovered a loose cable on The Dali which may have caused electrical issues.

When disconnected during recent testing, it triggered an electrical blackout similar to what happened on 3/26/24 .

Sept 17, 2024

A judge on Monday ruled that a charter amendment in Baltimore City to redevelop Harborplace is unconstitutional.

Some residents filed the motion in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court earlier this month on Question F, claiming it was  vague and unconstitutional and asked for a court-ordered edit.

The judge ruled ballots for the November election have been printed and it is too late for a reprint. However the question will remain on the ballots and the results will be counted, but not certified. 

Rappin brown on Cambridge , MD

You never know when history will  jar loose memory fragments. afloat in the cranium . I had crossed the Bay Bridge in two way traffic headed east to deliver a  server to an office in Denton, Md on Thursday, and  saw the Cambridge bridge which evoked a recall  of the names, H Rap Brown and Philip Berrigan.
Of course, the Baltimore 2015 riot  stories are not stale  so I hit the search engine today and found  this Brown's 1967 rant:

Ain't no need in the world for me to come to Cambridge and I see all them stores sitting up there and all them honkies owns them. You got to own some of them stores. I don't care if you have to burn him down and run him out. You'd better take over them stores

Read the link and you may notice some thing don't change. In 1963 it  was AG RFk and today it's AG Lynch .

And most folks will agree that  plenty of things have changed for the better in race relations.

And now to Berrigan, back then priest marrying nuns was not passe

5/17/15

45+ years later, Mosby the Baltimore prosecutor revs up the  mob claiming  basically she'll get those six cops then she appears on stage at a  Prince concert for the  Freddie Gray, the alleged victim. Her actions remind me more of a Jim Crow sheriff. But leave it to 7th district Congressman  Cummings to  tell the biggest whopper:

"Obviously, there are some who want to try it in the media, and Marilyn Mosby has made it very clear that she's not going to do that," he said.

Here's the extra sauce. Mosby has asked for a gag order.
BTW, Mosby and Cummings are black. I guess they skipped a few history lessons.

5/23/15

Hey Ms Mosby, if your office wants to label the Gray6  attorneys' accusations absurd, etc, then explain or shut up. My high school English  teachers would've failed you.

6/5/15

Mosby as a circus ringleader. I guess only she can have the microphone . BTW, she doesn't want the police to see Grays autopsy results.

6/24/15

More media games from the prosecution. Gray autopsy report details leaked but the defense hasn't seen a copy. opiates

Gray tested positive for opiates and cannabinoid, according to the newspaper's account of the autopsy.

6/25/15

what is mosby up to?  afraid of?

Mosby Seeks To Block Further Release Of Evidence In Gray Case

6/30/15

Mosby wants a judge to order a separate trial for two of the six officers . Is she throwing darts at the wall hoping something sticks? link

7/13/15

Baltimore Church Dedicating Youth Center To Freddie Gray.  gray

Seriously ??????????????. What part of his life was exemplary?

7/17/15

Hey Madam Mosby: link

Two of the officers said that when investigators asked them to provide statements about the circumstances surrounding Gray's arrest, they were led to believe they were doing so as witnesses — not as suspects.

7/30/15

 Assistant State's Attorney Albert Peisinger — communicated improperly with a Circuit Court judge to get the warrants signed after the first judge he tried found that they lacked probable cause. link

9/2/15

Are "Pro Freddie Gray" protesters are going to hold Baltimore hostage  during the rest of  the prosecution of the six cops in the paddy wagon? Sure reminds me of a lynch mob mentality.

9/4/15

Mosby will host a fundraiser Sept 16   but  isn't up for re-election until 2019. It's all about her.

9/10/15

Rawlings remains clueless. How can you settle a civil suit with Freddie Gray before the criminal cases against the six cops begins? It is a presumption of   the cops' guilt  http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/09/baltimore-panel-approves-freddie-gray-settlement/71928226/

"They tell us it’s by no way an admission of fault by the police officers,” Harris told AP. “If I was an attorney for a defendant I’d be revising my (venue) motion right now to say the settlement was made to persuade the jury pool that the officers did something wrong.”

10/15/15

Judge Williams  should have ruled Mosby turned  the evidence over immediately. Incredible how much leeway she's getting? link

 Williams also rebuked prosecutors for not providing some evidence to the defense earlier. He ordered the prosecution to provide all evidence it gathered during its independent investigation of Gray's death to the defense by Oct. 28.

11/25/15

No sequestration but sure hope the Judge Williams' wishes  hold throughout the Porter trial

 "told that their names will be screened from the outside world" so they don't feel pressure to convict Porter as a "sacrificial lamb" to avoid "further civil unrest" in the city.

11/30/15

First cop goes on trial this week- will the knuckleheads be civil or will they become a lynch mob?

12/17/15

Hey Prosecutor Mosby, are you ready to jump on stage with a rock star?
 Why did they let the protestors block traffic in Baltimore yesterday after the Porter mistrial verdict? Protesters  should've been kept on the sidewalk.

12/24/15

F up and get rewarded.  Baltimore City Council & Mayor get a pay raise.  I'd be laughing if it wasn't so pathetic.
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/baltimore-city-leaders-get-pay-raise/37107202

12/31/15

As a Baltimore County taxpayer, I'm ticked off that Kamenetz, "our leader", is "forgiving"  Baltimore City the bill for police and fire assistance during the riots. Another bailout for terrible Baltimore City leadership. link

1/11/16

porter

1/21/16

Judge rules that Porter doesn't have to testify, and who  would swallow this BS from the prosecution. porter

prosecutors’ promises that they would not use his (porter's) testimony against him.

2/16/16 

clusterf^^k=current status of freddie gray cases.

3/4/16

I bet this was a sight: Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby and her staff, and the six officers charged in the case sat on opposing walls, facing each other at the Maryland Court of Appeals hearing on Porter's testimony.

3/8/16

MD Court of Appeals  ruled Porter has to testify , and ,of course, they didn't explain their decision.

4/17/16

Last year  Mosby and Mayor Rawlings  did little to nothing to make Baltimore City safe from from protestors, and now some of those protesters are taking their anger to Mosby's doorstep . Of course, now she's unhappy. I'd laugh if she wasn't so pathetically self-absorbed. mosby

"As a mother of a 5- and 7-year-old, I would appeal to them to stop coming to my house, because it's scaring my children."
4/26/16

 Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr:

 the six Baltimore police officers being prosecuted for the death of Freddie Gray are “political prisoners.”

5/2/16

Taking this blog full cycle and briefly away from the Gray case.  Daniel Berrigan , a member of the draft card burning Catonsville (MD) Nine died over the weekend.

5/23/16

Hope the  knucklehead element in Baltimore City don'tgo bonkers if Nero is found innocent or gets a light sentence.

6/6/16

Goodson, the driver, trial starts today. Porter has to testify. link

6/16/16

trend continues: Mosby's crew violated discovery rules by not disclosing information about another witness in the case and were forced to turn it over yesterday. The new evidence shows that, at a meeting last year, a police investigator noted that assistant medical examiner Allan suggested at one point that Gray's death was an accident.

6/21/16

Freddie Gray case: Judge to issue verdict in Officer Goodson trial Thursday- hope the City remains calm - I don't see Goodson being found gulity on the serious charges and he may walk.

6/23/16

Judges rules not guilty on all Goodson's charges http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/freddie-gray/bs-md-ci-goodson-verdict-20160623-story.html

6/27/16

This continues to haunt the prosecution:Detective Dawnyell Taylor,the lead Baltimore police detective in the freddie Gray investigation, said she reluctantly read to grand jurors a summary of evidence provided by prosecutors that she believed was misleading.

7/6/16

Lt Rice opted by for bench trial plus  Judge Barry Williams criticized prosecutors for only last week giving Lt. Rice’s lawyers about 4,000 pages of in-service training documents. Mosby should resign.

7/18/16

 Judge Williams  acquits Lt Brian Rice- sends the same message to Mosby's crew. Wherre was Mosby- not in the courtroom.

7/28/16

Mosby did everything but look in the mirror. As one of her staff lawyers told the court, that all charges against the officers in the Freddie Gray case were dropped, Mosby went to the "scene of the crime" and blamed the investigators and many members of the BCPD for her  failures to get a conviction..
Perhaps a class or two in manners for Ms Mosby.

8/11/16

As expected Lynch's DoJ  accused the Baltimore City Police Dept of racial bias. Then this little nugget in the gender bias section of the report: allegation that a cop refused to call a transgender woman a woman.

8/22/16

Baltimore City is a  city "owned"by the Democrats, and I find it laughable that they didn't properly vet fired attorney Glen Keith Allen, 65, who had neo-nazi ties in the 1980's. Most government jobs in Baltimore City have always gone to members of the Democratic Party so while Mosby was  playing the race card, the city was paying a one-time Neo Nazi. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised at Democrats since the late Senator Byrd (WVA Democrat) was once a Klansman. 

9/22/16

Hey Charlotte, NC, no matter what you do, some hooligans are going to riot. Learn from Baltimore, don't kiss their asses.

10/5/16

Mayor #Rawlings coddled the vandals during the 2015 #baltimore riots, and #Mosby, the States Attorney, has been a flaming idiot.Hey but Mosby isn't done , she's trying to lay more blame on the Mayor. Hindsight ain't 20/20 for #MarilynMosby.You can'tlook in the mirror without it shattering and it ain't aboutyour looks.

10/15/16

Five (not Goodson) of the six defenendants in the #freddiegray case are suing #mosby in civil court.
Judge Garbis dropped some of the claims but was still considering whether allegations of negligent and malicious prosecution would stand.
#Mosby could face problems is in her unusual role as an investigator in Freddie Gray’s death, and that could strip her of her immunity against the lawsuit.

10/21/16

If I can't win then change all the rules that's what alleged adult  and Baltimore City State's Attorney #mosby is up to now. She's pushing for state legislation that would give judges and prosecutors the ability to reject a defendant’s right to choose a bench trial. Please notice defense attorneys are not in her equation.

11/8/16

#marilynMosby tweets ballot photo from inside  the voting area on Election Day. City states attorney still doesn't understand the law
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1/7/17

Judge Marvin Garbis  allowed the following claims in a civil action against #Mosby and Sheriff's Office Maj. Samuel Cogan to remain pending: malicious prosecution, defamation, invasion of privacy, and other 4th Amendment claims. mosby being sued

1/13/17

Here's what our current #DOJ thinks of cops , particularly in #Baltimore city.  "we were not involved in the process (consent decree)," the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3 said in a statement.

3/19/17

Members of her own Democratic party slow down the #Mosby power grab. MD Judicial Proceedings Committee has killed a bill that would have given police powers to investigators in the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office.  #mosby pushed for this legislation. I guesss her SOP is: "I'm inept, give me more power."

4/5/17

#jeffsessions is seeking to delay the BO era consent decree for Baltinmore City and this is part of his  reason why :  "It is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies."

4/22/17

#JudgeBredar allows consent decree to move forward, but not much can occur until the Feds appoint an independent monitor.

4/26/17

Here's how "policing " the police is going in #BaltimoreCity: First time it has seen 100 homicides before the end of April since 1998.

May 18, 2017

Ivan J Bates, an attorney who represented Sgt. Alicia White, may run against Mosby in 2018. Campaign debate could be entirely about the #freddiegray 6.

May 24, 2017

In #Baltimore illegal immigrants aren't considered equivalent, they're considered protected and superior. Chief deputy state’s attorney #MichaelSchatzow, a member of #mosby 's staff, sent a memo to staff last week instructing them to not enforce the law against immigrants as they might against U.S. citizens or legal residents. They call it discretion, I call it crap.

June 10, 2017

Open Dem on Dem political war is breaking out in #baltimorecity. Bmore Safe Now PAC, which may include some non Dems, but will likely be supporting a candidate to oppose #mosby in the Democratic primary had this to say on its website:

"Mosby's unethical behavior, naked ambition, and dangerous inexperience, has allowed innumerable violent repeat offenders to wreak havoc on our great city"

June 16. 2017

Is part of the murder problem in Baltimore City due to former #MayorRawlings "give the hooligans space" approach to the 2015 riots? 

aug 9, 2017

This is just pathetic : The #BaltimoreBikeShare system is having problems with "missing" bikes: less than a third of the 200 bicycles were available at docks across the city.

Oct 12,2017

Officers #GarrettMiller and #EdwardNero “accepted minor disciplinary action and are back to full time duty. #freddiegray

Nov 19,2017

#freddiegray aftermath : Lieutenant #BrianRice was found not guilty by a three-member panel of law enforcement officers on Friday.  Meanwhile #baltimorecity murder rate soars.

feb 11, 2018-One of the many crazy leaks coming from  new police Commissioner #Desousa dysfunctional transition was #aliciawhite , one of the Freddie Gray defendants, transfer to Internal Afffairs. It's been denied  and the Keystone  Kops show continues  in Baltimore City.  

April 6, 2018

Mayor Pugh's answer to Baltimore 's many problems is to give 100K to an advocacy group for illegal immigrants and to  fight against a State commission to investigate city police corruption. 

May 5, 2018

If you wants to know why  Baltimore City  is a mess. #McKenstry, a local minister appointed to Citizen Review Board of the Police Dept,   was parked with his hazard lights on in middle of busy Aisquith St, and had to be asked 50 times by a LEO for his license and registration. At one point, he said "do you know who I am.". I think you get the picture.

May 12, 2018

While  most Baltimore City politicians wring their hands and try to shrug off Police Commissioner #desousa s "mistake" of not filing his tax returns for a few years, MD State Senator #Clippinger nailed it:

"Completely failing to do a return three years in a row isn't a mistake." A mistake is missing a few deductions

May15, 2018

A memorial marker was installed outside the Catonsville  library — not outside the Knights of Columbus banquet hall across the street, where the "9" burned the records. Kof C rejected the marker  And,  check this  comment out  from a #danielberrigan disciple #brendanwalsh . Rather than say we cannot put the marker where it belongs,” he said, “they should say we repent and ask for forgiveness.”  The roots of #antifa were sown a long time ago.

June 5, 2018

Baltimore City Police Major #KimBurrus used funds for a vacation from a group ,Blue Love Across America, a charity she co-founded  during the 2015 riots to improve police interactions with the community. That group is also having tax problems. It's so pathetic I can't laugh at the ineptitude and greed.

june 27

I lived in Baltimore City my first 45 years and just feel sad  that they're headed for another four years of #mosby, who won the Dem primary for States Attorney and will be unopposed in the General Election.

Nov 6,2018

The Baltimore Civilian Review Board is suing the city's Police Departmentin an attempt to acquire 60 case files involving misconduct complaints about officers. Wonder what Mayor Pugh's  stance is?

dec 22

#Baltimore police  said late Friday night that they have obtained an arrest warrant for #LakiaLetterlough, 25 for the car fires in the Mount Vernon area. Ok, but why was the #ATF invited to the investigation? Was terrorism the initial suspicion?
Apparently the woman arrived at 12:45 a.m. at The Belvedere. A guest at The Belvedere complained about a homeless woman washing clothes in a bathroom sink and a later follow up led to the discovery of two small gas cans in the woman's white shopping bag. 

jan 28, 2019

More radical politics for Baltimore City :  Sen #KamalaHarris is entering the Democratic presidential race and plans to set up her campaign headquarters in Baltimore.
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh announced on Monday that she's taking an indefinite leave of absence from office after it was revealed she received $500,000 from the University of Maryland Medical System in critics have called a "self-dealing" book sale.

april 2, 2019

My city of birth gets uglier: Baltimore City Mayor #CatherinePugh is taking an indefinite leave of absence from office after it was revealed she received $500,000 from the University of Maryland Medical System in a "self-dealing" book sale. City Council President #JackYoung will take over Pugh's day-to-day responsibilities.
april 3 - And Pugh remains on salary!
april 25: #pugh 's house and Baltimore City Hall were raided by the FBI and IRS. The "fun" continues and she hasn't resigned.
july 21: Baltimore City Police Deputy Commissioner Daniel Murphy and a woman were robbed at gun point Friday evening near Patterson Park, a section that's been the focus of gentrification.
july 28: #KamalaHarris campaign headquarters is located in MD 3rd congressional district, near Federal Hill in Baltimore City and not in #Cummings 7th district.
sept 28, 2019: An update on #LizMcAlister, the nun, who married Philip Berrigan, a priest in 1972. She's in the Glynn County Detention Center in Brunswick, Ga. for carrying blood, hammers, and crime scene tape into Naval Station Kings Bay, the Atlantic coast home port of Trident submarines.  She refused her bail conditions.

jan 1, 2020

  In September 1861 #HenryMay, a Maryland Congressman and a  member of the Unionist party(anti-secession Democrats) was arrested without charges or recourse to habeas corpus on suspicion of treason and held in Fort Lafayette near Brooklyn, NY. No charges were ever brought or evidence produced and he returned to Congress in December 1861.

feb 10, 2020

Welcome to Baltimore City politics: The mayoral campaign of #SheilaDixon dismissed a volunteer, Michael T Moore, after City Council President Brandon Scott reported the man punched him in the face as he entered a mayoral candidates' forum

feb 28, 2020

 A federal judge in Maryland sentenced  former Baltimore Mayor #CatherinePugh to three years in prison Thursday over a fraud scheme  and pay $669,000 in restitution. Let's see if she serves the full three years in prison !

                                                                july 4 ,2020

Protesters toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus and tossed it into Baltimore's Inner Harbor on Saturday night. A spokesman for Mayor Jack Young said it was part of re-examination of monuments. Open warfare on public property is Ok, Thanks, Mayor Young for protecting the city and its citizens-just kidding.

April 11, 2021

Good luck to the cops in MD. Maryland legislature overrode Gov Hogan's veto of a bill  that scraps the Maryland Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights, a 1974 law that enshrined job protections for officers and a broad set of due process rights for those accused of misconduct.

May 18, 2021

In a 7-1 decision SCOTUS stated that Big Oil could move forward with its attempt to move a case out of Maryland court, which  handed the city of Baltimore City a preliminary setback in its bid to sue more than 20 multinational oil-and-gas companies on allegations they contributed to climate change. One of BIG OIL's arguments is that some of their oil-and-gas exploration efforts have come at the behest of the federal government.

Aug 31, 2021

The last Perkins Home building was demolished yesterday in east Baltimore to make the way for the housing authority's $1B Perkins Somerset Oldtown redevelopment plan. Hoping this doesn't become an urban renewal nightmare.

Jan 17, 2022

Maryland, my Maryland: Cambridge, MD Mayor Andrew Bradshaw resigned, less than two months after he was charged with 50 counts of distributing revenge porn.  Mosby, MD State Attorney, charged with lying on two mortgage documents and committing perjury by claiming financial hardships due to Covid.

Feb 2, 2022

Mosby is claiming she received financial advice that she was allowed to withdraw money from her retirement account, and that she had no knowledge of a federal tax lien against her. Really? How could you not know about a federal lien.  It gets better. Her defense team is pushing for a quick trial so the proceedings don't affect her re-elections plans.  Good luck with her office doing anything quickly except distributing get out of jail quick cards.

March 5, 2022

Should Baltimore City have gotten into the hotel business? It looks like business at the Hilton Hotel near Camden Yards wasn't doing well during the pre-pandemic.  Massive crime problems and the MLB season's looming delay will exacerbate this situation: bondholders were given notice this week that the hotel would dip into $3.7 million in reserve funds to keep up on the interest on its $260 million debt.

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