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Sinking Sun Chronicles

Fern Shen 1 year ago, October 6, 2008 View Comments

9/15/08 “Douchebag!” headline in The Baltimore Sun’s free tabloidPerhaps it was all just a bad dream. If you read the “about the Baltimore Sun” page on the website, you will find that The Sun is still the same fine institution that produced H. L. Mencken and William Manchester, that it has “1,500 full and part-time employees,” that it still “has multiple offices overseas, a network that brings distinguished foreign reporting directly to hometown readers.”

That description was up on the site as late as Nov. 11, many months after The Sun closed its last foreign bureau. They haven’t had 1,500 employees in a while, but those who remain (after all the departures due to buyouts, boot-outs and bum-outs) must be too overworked to update the page. After all, who over there has the time – or the heart – to rewrite the part invoking Mencken and Abell? Naah, better get back to work combing the wires for a cute animal picture for today’s “24 hours in photos.”

    The Daily Drip

    • September 3, 2010

      • On September 8th, One Less Car is hosting cyclist/cellist extraordinaire Ben Sollee for the Baltimore leg of his 2010 Ditch the Van Tour, a cross-country endeavor in which Sollee straps his cello onto the back of his bicycle and tours city-to-city without leaving a carbon footprint. “I love touring by bicycle!” Sollee writes on his [...]

      • Columnist Neal Peirce argues that demolishing old elevated highways, like Baltimore’s Jones Falls Expressway, would  heal communities destroyed by these remnants of the post-World-War II building boom. He notes that one place where this idea s being pushed lately is New Orleans, where there’s a move afoot to tear down  2.2 miles of the elevated [...]

    • September 2, 2010

      • Highlights from Investigative Voice’s coverage of pretrial deliberations, as three men go on trial for the 2008 killing of Baltimore City Councilmember Kenneth H. Harris. “You look at my face when you’re talking to me!” Circuit Court Judge David Ross said yesterday to Assistant State’s Attorney Cynthia M. Banks, who was reading from a notepad [...]

      • Here’s another opportunity for Baltimore bicyclists to assert themselves: city transportation officials are installing an automatic bike counter on the Fallsway. This comes from a bulletin from the city Department of Transportation, which tells cyclists to “just look for the diamond-shaped groove and ride over it. “If we have the traffic numbers and public support,” [...]

    • September 1, 2010

      • Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has announced that the famous Georgia-based Le Mans racing series will participate in the Baltimore Grand Prix racing events this weekend.

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