Bong-toking? Out. Slots by the Patapsco? Looking doubtful. Beer at the Preakness? Over. Who’s running this place, Carrie Nation?
By Fern Shen
The Baltimore Sun’s web page reported today that the forces of temperance are ascendant in the Free State.
If it wasn’t Olympian Michael Phelps mea culpa-ing over his marijuana-smoking, it was late-breaking news that the recession-era appetite for slots parlors was so anemic that long-time slots-backer Senate President Thomas V. “Mike” Miller wants the commission overseeing the bidding process to start over, presumably to see if they can sweeten up the deal.
Then, news broke that the Maryland Jockey Club is forbidding Preakness spectators from bringing beer, thermoses of Pimm’s Cup, Evian, Big Gulps or beverage of any kind to the infield.
Hi-de-li-ho neighboreeno! What’s going on here?
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Wednesday, February, 8th, 2012
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Mount Royal bike lane statements
People involved in the Mount Royal Avenue bike lane issue have asked for the full text of the statements issued by Maryland Institute College of Art and the Baltimore Department of Transportation so here’s a link to a page where we’ve pasted up both. In addition, MICA has put Lazarus’ statement up on its website [...]
February 3, 2012
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Baltimore’s guerrilla crosswalk artists
Transportation officials don’t like it, but Hampden residents are apparently fed up – they want cross-walks repainted on The Avenue and if the city’s not going to maintain the crosswalks on this busy north Baltimore street, they’re doing it themselves. Deborah Patterson, a former OSI-Baltimore Community Fellow who runs ArtBlocks, is one of the ringleaders. [...]
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January 31, 2012
Below the Fold
January 27, 2012
Your Baltimore Weekend
Catching up on a slew of interesting things to do and read this weekend that we almost lost track of in the Kickstarter hub-bub. Here are just a few: SATURDAY (1/28/12) New Mercury Non-fiction Reading – Check out tell-it-like-it-is education blogger Edit Barry (see below) and a pack of other feisty non-fictional characters from the [...]
