Stirring up News and Views in Baltimore Maryland
The not-too-late-night comedian seems to get that the mind-blowing part is not the behavior Dixon’s conviction presumes, but the explanation she offered for it during trial . . .
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“The mayor took a $500 Best Buy card and $500 Target gift card — took the money from the poor — and spent it on herself,” Leno said.
Wait for it…….
“She said it was an honest mistake: She said she just thought it was a bribe.”
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
