Study: Baltimore Is 2023’s Worst Real-Estate Market
With home values up around 1.0% in the past year and mortgage rates having continued to increase, the personal-finance website
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Missing the Point: Lowering property tax rates will not save the city of Baltimore. Not even close!
A couple of weeks ago, The Baltimore Sun ran an editorial about Maryland’s need to grow its population. The primary
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Redacted Report on Child Sexual Abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore is Released by Attorney General’s Office: Decades of Child Sexual Abuse and Cover-Up by Church Leadership Outlined in Attorney General’s Report
“This Report illustrates the depraved, systemic failure of the Archdiocese to protect the most vulnerable – the children it was charged to keep safe,” said Attorney General Brown. “Based on hundreds of thousands of documents and untold stories from hundreds of survivors, it provides, for the first time in the history of this State, a public accounting of more than 60 years of abuse and cover-up. Time and again, the Archdiocese chose to safeguard the institution and avoid scandal instead of protecting the children in its care.
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Top 5 Cash Home Buyers in Baltimore
If you’re looking to sell your home quickly in Baltimore, finding the right cash home buyer can be challenging. To
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Pelosi ends historic speakership but will stay in the House
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, one of the most powerful politicians in U.S. history and the first woman speaker, announced on the House floor midday Thursday that she would not seek another run for leadership in the Democratic Party.
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Release of Adnan Syed focuses attention on Maryland wrongful prosecutions
Troy Burner, 50, remembers that feeling. Burner, who also lives in Maryland, spent 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit before a judge ruled in 2018 that like Syed, prosecutors had failed to give him a fair trial.
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Missing the Point: Baltimore Sings the Vacant City Blues
If only I was BB King. Unfortunately, while I could probably come up with a really cool name for my guitar, if I had one, I couldn’t play it. Or sing. …Now you know why I write for a living.
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Marilyn Mosby did not lose the Election because of Racism
Recently, a local media outlet published an editorial claiming that Marilyn Mosby lost the primary election due to racism. Claiming Mosby lost due to her skin color undermines the democratic process and more importantly, it discounts the voters of Baltimore, most of whom are Black. The fact that a Black man, Ivan Bates, won the three-way primary further discredits the idea that race was a factor.
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The Zappa Band’s Ray White on the Music and the Man Himself
When guitarist Ray White received a phone call from singer Lady Bianca in 1976, he had no idea it would
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Poe’s Helen of a Thousand Dreams
For a brief spell toward the end of his life, the master of the macabre also claimed another Northeast city as his haunt: Providence, Rhode Island. And while Poe’s dark tales of the supernatural may make him a Halloween favorite, his stint in Providence is a story fit for a more sentimental holiday—Valentine’s Day.
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