(Originally posted 2015-04-29, in the midst of the Freddie Gray riots.)
… if you’ve never lived here, if you’ve never worked here …
Now that Baltimore is the center of national media attention, an endless string of celebrities and celebrity-wannabes can’t wait to come here and get their share of the limelight …
… at our expense.
… apparently went just as anticipated.
City leaders call on black men to mentor youths and stop the violence
“The usual suspects” — those you’d expect — all showed up — and none of the people who needed to.
Continue reading The mayor’s conference on black-on-black crime …
In recent weeks it has been a matter of some chagrin to me that my Yahoo! News feed keeps bringing articles from major outlets that prove in my estimation to have far less merit than my own; while my own work continues to be ignored.
Frankly, it seems to me that my work is on a par with that of the Washington Post columnists. I see myself as in that league. If I can find my way there, my goal would be not so much to set forth my own views, as to alter the direction of public discourse; to influence, perhaps even at a national level, the way people talk about the great questions of our time.
This report provides real, hard numbers as to how much it actually costs to incarcerate someone.
It’s not a good idea.
See also: A negative return on investing in prisons
Originally posted 2015-04-15.
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Bishop called 2010 DUI arrest ‘a major wake-up call’
TRANSCRIPT:
Heather Cook, an Episcopalian suffragan bishop in Maryland, has been in the news lately. A few weeks ago, she was involved in a vehicular homicide, and currently faces charges including vehicular manslaughter, driving while intoxicated, texting while driving, and leaving the scene of an accident.
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