Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Baltimore Sun continues its series focusing on Baltimore City's property tax system with a interesting side look at how the state's assessment office made mistakes undervaluing a specific property belonging to a son of a prominent real estate developer. There are several important points that jump out:
1. The state does ...
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Dear Senator Gladden, Delegates Rosenberg, Carter and Oakes, and the honorable chairs of the State Senate and House,
I am writing to you today as a resident of the 41st district to oppose the proposed bill titled "Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act of 2012". Specifically, there are three things in this ...
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
As a good counterpoint to my previous two negative blog posts about Baltimore City government (here and here), here is something positive. For various reasons, local elections in the city have taken place in really odd years, like 2011 when no other state or federal election was held. The result ...
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Sunday, January 8th, 2012
One of the recurring questions that comes up among those that are follow city politics is how many city employees actually live in the city. Common belief holds (correctly or incorrectly) that city employees like police officers, planning officials, etc. can do their jobs better if they shared affinity with ...
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Sunday, January 8th, 2012
One of the things that keeps coming over and over when I read about city politics in Baltimore is a false sense of entitlement by city officials, both elected and non-elected. For some reasons, they feel that they are entitled to tax breaks, perks and employment benefits that an average ...
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Sunday, November 6th, 2011
Earlier today my spouse dragged me away from the comfy computer chair and screen into the somewhat frigid outdoors for a trip with the kids and a stroller to the Inner Harbor. To avoid traffic and expense of parking we decided to take public transportation, and being that all three ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Just some brief notes on my voting experiences with absentee ballots in Maryland.
The instructions for requesting a ballot appear on the state's Election Board website. There is a PDF form to print out and return, but interestingly you can submit the form via email or fax, and you can request the ballot ...
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
I blogged before about a Baltimore City councilwoman, Belinda Conaway, suing a local blogger for defamation and libel because he accused her of living outside the city and posted real estate documents she herself signed to prove it. Now comes word that her lawyer will be filing for dismissal. The ...
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Monday, June 27th, 2011
(For previous posts see here and here)
One thing that both Belinda Conaway and Adam Meister agree on is that she did in fact sign at least four legal documents on a piece of real estate outside Baltimore City and claimed it as her residence at least four times. She may ...
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Sunday, June 26th, 2011
About 6 weeks ago, I wrote a post about an interesting local story - a local councilwoman is suing a blogger for $21 million after he alleged that she does not resided in the city proper. Now it looks like this blogger, Adam Meister, has retained pro-bono services of a ...
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