Another reason to hate Team Ehrlich/Constellation: Maryland power plants have been flagrantly violating pollution laws, unpenalized.
Following a robbery, a Bowie man was Annapolis' 4th homicide.
A 19-year-old and a 17-year-old were stabbed in a knife fight in Edgewood.
Darnell Foreman, 21, was shot in Frederick and flown to shock trauma.
Julie Bycowicz's story about change to the FBI's gunshot analysis policies made the L.A. Times.
Now that's a story: Dorothy Parker's ashes belong to the NAACP, and have been sitting in their Northwest Baltimore headquarters for years ! Parker reportedly willed her estate to MLK Jr. and the NAACP after she heard snarky Sun reporter H.L. Mencken tell racist jokes.
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the link your edgewood knife fight blurb goes to the article about the murder in annapolis.
Oddly enough, the very first thought I had when I read last month that the NAACP was moving was “what are they going to do with Dorothy?” Can’t blame the NAACP for moving, though. After all, they’re supposed to be a lobbying group. They should be where the lobbying is done.
And was Mencken telling racist jokes about black people or jewish people? Did Meade know for sure? I’ve always read that Mencken’s views towards blacks were infantilistic, but not hateful. Actually, I didn’t read that they were infantilistic. They just seemed that way to me.
"Another reason to hate Team Ehrlich/Constellation: Maryland power plants have been flagrantly violating pollution laws, unpenalized."
love to hear galt's republican spin on this one... i'm sure some spendenning or omalley reference would have to come up
It's not a Republican spin; it's an economist's spin.
What do you want: cheap power or clean power? We can have as tight an enforcement regime as you want on plant emissions. Are Marylanders willing to pay what that costs? Answer: not if you speak with low-income Baltimoreans. They appear to be saying "Give me cheapo electricity, no matter what."
Unless, of course, you were referring to eating cake and having it, too.
Thank Republicans for your future lung tumor, because it's actually on their platform that kissing corporate ass (being "business friendly") is a good thing. Constellation, like, say, Enron, exists for the sole purpose of increasing economic returns for its investors. Every Marylander is paying a tax here in terms of a lower quality of life so that stockholders can get a $1.50 dividend. You don't have to be Milton fucking Friedman to see that this only benefits large stockholders and benefits them largely.
The only way to make corporations clean up after themselves is to raise the penalty to them so that it makes economic sense to do so. Otherwise, they're a BAD corporation for NOT maximizing gains and minimizing losses to shareholders! It is absoloutely government's job to regulate in-state corporations and ultilities, they are failing every Marylander at this job. Glendening didn't do a great job of it either, but what's going on now is a disgusting failure.
... and you can salt the earth, electricity is NEVER going to get any cheaper.
I love how people on a Baltimore Crime website criticize Maryland Republicans when Democrats have been hurting Baltimore for decades through their inept running of the schools, lead paint enforcement, and police department.
the edgewood knife fight link is still messed up. it contains two "http"s, so it just takes you to microsoft's home page or something.
Oh, Hell,...
ya got it right.
The utility's job is to generate a best return to shareholders, and
The government's job is to maximize the welfare of all stakeholders taken as a whole (including firms and their investors).
Environmental controls are costly. At a very low level, their marginal cost is exceeded by their marginal value. At a higher level, marginal cost exceeds marginal value. That is the point where you cease mandating controls. That is the point where a good government allows the polition.
That point is a function of other costs, including the cost of fuelstocks and the cost of power imported from an out-of-state generator.
You can have as a clean a supply of power as you want. It will come from out of state and you and everyone else on the grid will pay much more for it than that state's residents pay. (transmission losses can be high) Effectively, you are paying that state's residents to breathe your pollution.
Congratulations. Some f#@kin' tree-hugger.
Yeah how dare those Dems try to save children from lead posioning. That kind of thinking will RUIN US ALL!
I couldn't find anything on the WJZ website about a suicide note in the Rivera death, but wbal tv's Jayne Miller reports: "sources said no suicide note was left behind. The 11 News I-Team has learned that investigators are examining other written material that might provide other clues." The WBAL TV report also mentions how the security camera tape from the 13th floor is missing. The Belvedere is a condo building where only residents have access to certain floors and the roof. It smells like the guy was meeting his lover and the meeting went bad and he got tossed off the building.
That's not true, anyone who can get into the elevator can access the roof from if they know where the access is.
Politicians don't 'save' anyone from anything. Politics consists of the arbitrary imposition of economic burdens, regardless of incidence, based solely upon the weight of a headcount, which really has no econmic significance. That arbitrariness underlies the process necessitates the invocation of the power of the State. Where rationality is absent, enter the State.
Ah, the false binary dichotomy of extremists. We can either have affordable power OR clean air. That's right up there with "you can vote for George Bush OR see mushroom clouds go up over New York" or "you can support hate crimes legislation OR you can be a violent racist."
No dichotomy. The population of the Chesapeake basin can have as clean a brand of power as they're willing to pay for. Mr. O'Malley is today insisting to the Court that his constituents cannot afford the market price of power. That implies some appetite for pollution.
The Dems are responsible for the lax enforcement of lead paint abatement in baltimore city!
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