Let me get this straight (baltimore) (Mayo, North Beach: rental, credit, how much)

[Infinite_heights77]

Baltimore's electoral season...

Let the clowns come out and play!

Originally Posted by Woodlands

So I was watching the local news this morning and a slick Baltimore tourism video came on.. It touted the City's history and heritage, showed diverse smiling faces, museums, restaurants, the Harbor everyone having a good time.. and ended with a "Visit Baltimore" type statement..


The very next commercial was for Ivan Bates running for States Attorney which talked about the City's insanely high murder rate, high crime, and low conviction rate..


How ironic..SMH

[Infinite_heights77]

Warriors! Come out to play-ay!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeEbtiruH2Q

[bus man]

Originally Posted by Infinite_heights77

Warriors! Come out to play-ay!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeEbtiruH2Q

You're a fan of The Warriors? This may be the first time I've ever agreed with you on something!

[debold4215]

Originally Posted by north beach person

on the roads.

The legislature this year approved a 5 year timetable to restore highway user revenue to the counties and municipalities to the level it was prior to the o'malley administration's withdrawal of it.

How that impacts the city i'm not sure because it only lost 20% of the funding while everybody else lost 95%.

Just so everyone knows, baltimore gets highway money for both the city owned streets as well as the state roads within the city (the payment is based on miles of roads and a different formula is used for each).

So if you residents don't start seeing some improvement you need to start raising constant hell.

https://conduitstreet.mdcounties.org...nfrastructure/

interesting but i don't see any attempts to repair streets in the city and the county isn't much better.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by debold4215

interesting but i don't see any attempts to repair streets in the city and the county isn't much better.

Ok. But the money's there for the City. So go raise Hell with the Council.

The County is a bit different, they didn't quite as good a deal as the municipalities.

[feck]

Originally Posted by pappjohn

No, but there has been some democrats on this thread trying to defend these youths using race as
an argument which is ridiculous. If were the other way around and the officer had shot a teen, BLM would be yelling about social injustice and such, regardless of the facts.

An unarmed woman who would be called "white trash" engaged in a fist fight with a police officer in a home with two other male occupants recently. The police officer did not shoot her but used
non-weapon restraining. The other (white) males also used unarmed physical resistance but were also restrained in the same manner as the woman. An unarmed (black) man, a few days ago,
ran at an officer and started a physical altercation. Did the officer attempt to restrain the (black) man without a lethal weapon? No. He shot him SEVERAL times until he stopped breathing.


You may not think it is about race, but law enforcement sure does and makes it known almost every day.

[Baghead]

Originally Posted by feck

An unarmed woman who would be called "white trash" engaged in a fist fight with a police officer in a home with two other male occupants recently. The police officer did not shoot her but used
non-weapon restraining. The other (white) males also used unarmed physical resistance but were also restrained in the same manner as the woman. An unarmed (black) man, a few days ago,
ran at an officer and started a physical altercation. Did the officer attempt to restrain the (black) man without a lethal weapon? No. He shot him SEVERAL times until he stopped breathing.


You may not think it is about race, but law enforcement sure does and makes it known almost every day.

Wow, you have all the answers. You should get a badge and show everyone how it's done.


Literally any one of a million different factors could be in play.


Also, I'd like to know how you can pull a trigger until someone "stops breathing." Do you do trigger pulls until you see their chest stop moving or do you have to plug their nose while firing the gun?

[Woodlands]

The photo at the lead of this article is telling.. A whole block of intact but vacant row homes and a group of advocates asking for more affordable housing????? I don't know what it is about Baltimore.. but this place is bizarre.. Blocks of City owned homes vacant, high tax rate, developers getting tax breaks to develop "market rate" housing as opposed to rehabbing homes like in this photo or building new ones in neighborhoods (that could be rented or sold as workforce or affordable housing) as opposed to trendy or waterfront communities where the market can take care of itself...


"Affordable" Housing in Baltimore almost seems like a relative term.. Many people end up or remain in Baltimore because it is in fact "affordable" compared to the surrounding areas. You can rent a room by the day in Baltimore and likely rent a flat as well for a few bucks off of craigslist.. It wont be a "quality affordable, safe, decent and sanitary" housing which is what I believe the advocates are asking for as opposed to simply being "affordable" to the price point that the market will bare and where there is likely some abundance.. I see rooms for rent signs in NW Baltimore on beautiful old four squares.. likely carved up beyond recognition with every square inch a room.. It is probably affordable for someone on the lower end of the spectrum, just above homeless but likely not safe nor permitted. So, If I understand these folks they want new quality affordable.....Am I wrong????




https://baltimorebrew.com/2018/06/13...endment-drive/

[skeddy]

nobody wants to live around "rent by the night" residential housing.

[debold4215]

Originally Posted by infinite_heights77

baltimore's electoral season...

Let the clowns come out and play!

have you seen the ballots for baltimore ? Most officials are running unopposed. I would like to see some of our circuit court judges replaced