By Tom Blumer | September 13, 2015, 11:01 PM EDT
Juliet Linderman sang Saturday morning in the wake of Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's ... Baltimore residents to matter surely remember. The first is that the Mayor admitted to making a conscious ... a sheriff from another Maryland county who came to Baltimore hoping to help preserve order, is that she ...
By Tom Blumer | September 10, 2015, 4:07 PM EDT
Baltimore's agreement to pay $6.4 million to the family of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who died in ... case to "settle." Both the AP and the New York Times, the latter in quoting Baltimore Mayor ... did it. They approved- the Board of Estimates in Baltimore unanimously, 5 to 0, voted in favor to ...
By Tom Blumer | September 10, 2015, 7:37 AM EDT
a blighted neighborhood of boarded-up rowhouses in West Baltimore. His death on April 19 set off nearly two ... wound in Baltimore, a majority black city with an African-American mayor and a history of tensions ... deliberately ignored — I say it's deliberate because she was in Baltimore during the time period in ...
By Tom Blumer | July 13, 2015, 10:05 AM EDT
some hope for Madhani's writeup when I came to a section entitled "Baltimore and Ferguson ... Rawlings-Blake which allowed Baltimore's riots to occur and then worsen — have encouraged increased criminal ... Baltimore, New Orleans and St. Louis. Meanwhile, in Chicago, the nation's third-largest city, the ...
By Tom Blumer | June 22, 2015, 11:07 PM EDT
play again. Of course, the press is playing up the move-up, and ignoring the screw-ups. Baltimore Mayor ... she's calling "the Baltimore Compact." There are no specifics yet, but she is saying things about it and her situation in Baltimore she wouldn't dare if the Baltimore Sun or others in the ...
By Tom Blumer | May 31, 2015, 8:06 PM EDT
In case you missed it, the City of Baltimore and the State of Maryland have requested disaster ... that city's April riots. You read that right. Yvonne Wenger at the Baltimore Sun predictably ... Unrest will cost city $20 million, officials estimate The recent rioting and unrest in Baltimore will ...
By Tom Blumer | April 30, 2015, 11:41 PM EDT
emerged from anonymity told them that Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake "gave an order for ... and Davis show in Baltimore today and repeated his assertion, while adding that the orders included ... of the related article at CBS Baltimore (bolds are mine; some paragraph breaks added by me): Sheriff: ...
By Tom Blumer | April 30, 2015, 10:01 PM EDT
Baltimore during the past several days wraps up with a final paragraph only a historically ignorant person ... any of them. Baltimore is on that list: While the overall U.S. population has grown by over 50 percent ... tiniest inklings of recovery — and Baltimore's has almost certainly been halted by this week's ...
By Matthew Balan | April 30, 2015, 11:53 AM EDT
describe the rioters and looters in Baltimore, Maryland on Monday to a notorious racial slur against ... 50,000 Tweets. Today, Baltimore's mayor [Stephanie Rawlings-Blake] apologized for using the term, ... Baltimore over the word, as well NFL player Richard Sherman's contention that "thug" is ...
