A Cleaner, Greener MD – Eventually!

(Muke) – According to the Baltimore Sun, Martin O’Malley committed Maryland to significant (?) cuts in pollution: The plan would commit the state to a 25 percent reduction by 2020 in climate-warming pollution — mainly carbon dioxide — as last year’s bill did. Dropped from last year’s original language is any long-term goal or target […]

Question A – Creation of Department of General Services

On the 2008 Presidential Ballot, and before the hundreds of millions of dollars in loans that Baltimore City is requesting, we get to vote on the creation of a new 437-member department to handle the stuff that the Department of Public Works used to do. Here is The Baltimore Sun’s well-reasoned and clearly articulated guidance […]

Spontaneous Deadification: The New Threat to Baltimore?

2008 has been a year of great progress for the city of Baltimore with regard to its murder rate; with fewer than 200 murders and less than three months to go until the year’s end, the city has not seen such numbers since before the infestation of crack cocaine in the early 1980s. But in […]