Patricia Jessamy keeps referring to the fact that crime rates are down in Baltimore and implies that this is at least in part her doing.

However, crime in general has been going down. Is the decrease in Baltimore's crime rate different from the rest of the nation? Better? Worse? Only if the Baltimore city's crime rate has gone down more than in the ( Read more... )

Well, since it's Saturday, that only leaves us 7 days until the primary.  The good news is that in this year you don't have to wait until the primary election day to vote. Early voting is now available and absentee voting is always an option.

Here's a place to see the debate between Patricia Jessamy and Gregg Bernstein and another to listen to the ( Read more... )

On Saturday, July 24th, three days shy of his 24th birthday, a young man was dropped off at Penn Station by the bus that had brought him from visiting his sister in N.Y.C   He was walking home and was on his cell phone talking with his mother. About a mile from Penn Station, and just four blocks from his apartment near the Johns Hopkins main campus ( Read more... )