Comments on: From Mobtown to Braintown: Daily Beast names Baltimore America’s 10th smartest city

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:44:00 +0000

bragged

By: John

John — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:15:00 +0000

Well, this must mean that “smart” people support democrats, mismanaged budgets, exorbitant taxes, and so on.

By: Adil Ahmed

Adil Ahmed — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:49:17 +0000

Street Smarts and Book Smarts. Good fit.

By: Youssef

Youssef — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:35:23 +0000

I'm sure they mean metro area. If they ranked just the city proper, oh man…

By: Youssef

Youssef — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:35:23 +0000

I'm sure they mean metro area. If they ranked just the city proper, oh man…

By: Andrew Obot

Andrew Obot — Sat, 22 May 2010 04:40:37 +0000

I concur with the viewpoints of this article. Baltimore is home to outstanding colleges, medicals schools, law schools and a concentration point for many bio-tech firms, just to mention a few. Evidently, there are drug addicts and slums in baltimore, but every city possesses these in some proportion. Baltimore is the best!!! Come check it out!!!

By: grocks

grocks — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:38:27 +0000

i live in baltimore and im a teacher… and my students are really smart… infact we are one of the top 300 highschools in the United States!

yes baltimore is improving!!! i can attest to that

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:24:54 +0000

To David Blue: Spoken like someone who really hasn’t ventured past the Inner Harbor. Baltimore is pock-marked by places of low and high income, as opposed to the neatly defined “bad quadrants” that many other cities have, such as DC’s southeast areas. This can be intimidating to newcomers. As a resident for the last year, however, I can name 4 major Baltimore bookstores off the top of my head (2 Barnes and Nobles, a Dadelus, and Red Emma’s). Naturally, there are issues with poverty, illiteracy, and crime, as there are in any major city, but Baltimore stands out in its efforts at gentrification in all sections of the city, not just the ones that are already half-decent. Moreover, the cultural aspects of Baltimore continue to astound me, from the opera house and symphony hall in Mt. Vernon, to the art museums and college campuses (plural) near Charles Village. Baltimore is a working city; it does not try to pretty itself up for the benefit of the passer-by, but the density of culture and higher learning is apparent to anyone who looks close enough.

And also…it’s “Roland” Park, not Roling Park.

By: David Blue

David Blue — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:11:55 +0000

Where in the world does this article come from? Baltimore is not the 10 nor the 50th smartest city in the US. In what world does a city filled with rampant drug use, school dropouts, and illiteracy rates that are through the roof get to be the top 10 smartest city? If this doesn’t smack of some type of real estate or city promotion, what does. The criteria for rating Baltimore was not only outlandish, it was a basic fiction. My God if any city doesn’t read, its Baltimore. Name me more than one large bookstore in the city? There is one. How many are in New York, Philadelphia, or Washington, DC? There hardly any bookstores since most either go out of business or become niche stores with specific clientele that may not even live in the city. Why do people write such outlandish fictions about Baltimore? Not only does it make the city look bad since its obvious to anyone that lives here, it also hides the true strengths that the city offers. Baltimore is an historical city with a diverse population that is struggling to deal with long term poverty, illiteracy rates, and very high teen pregnancy rates. Of course, one reason why the article might be overlooking such facts is that the readers being address are Caucasian suburbanites that don’t even live in the city or are the affluent few in Rolling Park. Baltimore is more than its 5 percent wealth areas north of the main city area.