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City Leadership passes lifetime appointment bill for all local political offices
Mayor praises decision, citing need to eliminate ‘problematic factors like voters’ City Hall - In response to declining populations, repeated incumbent victories and historically low voter turnout, the Baltimore City Council has unanimously passed a bill eliminating elections for all local leadership. Effective January 1st, all Baltimore officials serving in political offices as well as the General Assembly will serve lifetime appointments in their current positions. At a groundbreaking for the mostly-public-but-sort-of-private Super Harbor Industrial Tower – … Read entire article »
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A swimmable, fishable harbor: Or, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA – Part 2
And so it was after Earth Day 2010 that the Waterfront Partnership unveiled its, shall we say, ambitious goal to make Baltimore’s Inner Harbor two of two seemingly impossible things: Swimmable, and Fishable. Not only swimmable and fishable, but swimmable and fishable in ten years. The initially touted details involved spreading awareness of the perils of litter, construction or large marsh-barges and other measures that at that time I deemed “a bit cutesy” when faced … Read entire article »
Another one bites the dust: Bill’s Lighthouse Inn sold
Signaling the further death-knell of working class enclaves in South Baltimore, Bill’s Lighthouse Inn (1741 Light Street, Riverside), the storied and longstanding neighborhood bar has been sold to a group known as Velocity Cafe. Bill’s went up for auction in December, but owner Adele Wedemeyer rejected the $475,000 bid for the sizable property, opting to go the Craigslist route and hope for more money. And it would seem the tactic paid off, with the new owners soon taking over the bar/restaurant, liquor license, furnishings and application for outdoor seating – plus that cute little lighthouse on the awning. According to the internet, Cafe Velocity was a neighborhood coffee shop in Santa Monica that closed recently, a far cry in premise and execution from a restaurant known primarily for its crab cakes and … Read entire article »
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3 ways to zazz up Pat Turner’s proposed “Eiffel Tower” for Baltimore
Reported today by The Sun and various other media sources, developer Pat Turner has proposed placing a 236-foot tall structure as the centerpiece of his recently ground-broken Westport development, a spiritual successor to all of the other developments he’s managed to score in the past 30 years or so in effect transforming Baltimore’s extended stretches of unused waterfront real estate into a vast sea of condos and mixed use luxury facilities. The structure, with its potential … Read entire article »
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Update: The Baltimore City Speed Cameras Map
Last October, Baltimore City placed 50-ish permanently located speed cameras in and around the area within designated School Zones – essentially any area within a half-mile of a school, which as many have noted essentially covers a majority of Baltimore’s land mass, save some of its most industrial areas. As of May 24th it would seem that the safety of Baltimore’s children is still in a dire state of terror (even when school is not in session) necessitating the addition of four portable speed camera units, which will rotate periodically through 20 additional locations. These cameras will have the ability to maneuver into a more dangerous area – should the need arise – where children are dying at unbelievable rates as a result of rampant speeding. Unlike the last round … Read entire article »
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