Join your fellow crimefighters in boozing it up at Max's this minute!
Even if it seems like Dixon is co-oping the event, galt, proceeds do go to the Zach Sowers Recovery Fund, a very worthy cause.
Do you know someone who drives in MoCo in a silver BMW 5 series that now has front-end damage (or their car's suddenly disappeared? Well that said someone may have mowed down 17-year-old prospective chef Esai Lopez, and you should totally narc on them.
"Can we have a police patrol in this area?" a resident of asked Sheila Dixon. But not a peep as to what the mayor's answer was?!
"The reason why we chose Baltimore was, they came in with the highest bid on bodies." -- Maj. Jeffrey Ball in a Sun medical melodrama piece ("A Doctor at War") on how UMM's Shock Trauma trained a doctor for Iraq.
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I thought this item from the Wall Street Journal so very appropriate given the talk about another municipal sports venue for downtown.
As for Mayor Dixon in Govans, she basically fell back on her mantra about 'the community needs to do this in partnership with the police'.
Translation: The partnership is that you all do the heavy lifting; we'll stand around and supervise.
Clearest translation: No more patrols, we don't have officers to spare. In Dixonese: "We'll have to see." (as in, after the primary.)
She then went on about how offenders come from broken families and that's where she wants to focus city resources: municipal mothering.
A failing effort at re-raising everyone else's rotten children.
And she stated (sympathetically) that she knows a lot of offenders who have told her that if they don't get some kind of freebie handout or phony job that they intend to go back to criminal hustlin' on the streets. (This because they have nothing of value to offer the private sector.)
Where I come from, that's called extortion, and you never accede to it. That's the best argument I've ever heard for transferring budget resources away from 'mothering' and into policing.
Cybes, I am going to have to come to Pazo's defense, since I'm pretty sure you were there when they were having a bad night. Sure the atmosphere is a little snooty, but I thought the food was quite good, and certainly not inedible. Prices didn't seem that bad either, I think our bill for two people, including tax, tip and a bottle of wine, came to $70. Not cheap, but reasonable for a fairly upscale place.
I just found out that my roommate supports Sheila Dixon. I'll never understand how an intelligent, hard-working person can support that woman.
Does your roommate make public-art sculptures for a living by any chance?
Didn't see any candidates in Canton, BTW, just a lot of news trucks!
pp you just inspired me to create another blog, avoidthisrestaurant.blogspot.com!
No, she's a teacher in West Baltimore! I used to think that Sheila Dixon's support came entirely from voters who were completely ignorant of what's going on in the city, or from the sorts of sheeple who attend Freewill Baptist Church & vote for whoever their pastor tells them to support. Sadly I was wrong.
I just love how public art has become the new whipping boy around here. What Baltimore actually spends on public art, or even helping artists is a drop in the disgusting bucket. Borofsky's Male/Female? Oh, yeah, that was paid for by the Municipal Arts Society of Baltimore, who made all their money on the stock market. Individual artists' grants in Baltimore top out at a grand a year. Maybe that's one of the reasons Baltimore is a crappy city for artists. Most of the best MICA grads high tail it out of the city as soon as possible. Yes, I realize that Baltimore has major infrastructure problems with crime enforcement, education, and transportation, but at this point, it's also rather culturally irrelevant. It might not matter anyway, because Baltimore will get worse before it even has the opportunity to recover.
There has never been a major city which has thrived in the long run without a robust private sector.
Neither fake government jobs, nor nonprofit 'centers', nor University conglomerates, nor artists & musicians can replace legitimate, unsubsidized business.
The means of making a place attractive to the private sector is to provide that person & property are safe and that residents exhibiting potential have reasonable access to upward mobility through public education.
Notice, I never used the words 'grant' or 'program'.
Tj, take a look at the city budget. Several million dollars per year are going to public art. That money could pay for a number of additional cops & prosecutors. I don't consider myself to be anti-art, but that kind of spending is a luxury you can't afford when you're one of the most violent cities in the US.
"Neither fake government jobs, nor nonprofit 'centers', nor University conglomerates, nor artists & musicians can replace legitimate, unsubsidized business."
That's interesting, because as a freelance artist, the IRS seems to be under the impression that I have to file as a small business. I didn't realize that my business was subsidized or illegitimate.
PPatin - Nowhere in the city budget are the words "public art" used. The Art and Culture general budget is widely dispersed to city agencies, private institutions, and yeah, a little goes to public art. Here's the most recent breakdown of the Office of Promotion and the Arts: http://207.114.6.204/clfiles/ReportToCommunity(PtIV).pdf
A majority of their money goes to Artscape and other festivals (Book Festival, FreeFall) and wages/salaries. Maybe they need to cut some fat in the office, but if Baltimore really can't afford to fund any of these things, well, the city doesn't have a prayer.
Hmm, try this: Office of Promotion and the Arts
#1 Baltimore really can't afford to fund any of these things.
#2 The city doesn't have a prayer.
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