…before threatening to fine residents for not clearing the snow from theirs MTA DOES ITS USUAL LACKLUSTER JOB, FAILING TO MEET WEATHER CHALLENGE AND PROVIDE NEEDED PUBLIC SERVICE Light Rail and subway systems miss opportunity to display strong, positive impact at a time when cars needed to be kept off roads TWO NEW BOOKS […]

  FEAR OF ICE-COATED ROAD SURFACES — A ‘MODEL CITY’ FOR OVERREACTING TO FORECASTS OF WINTER STORMS — USED TO BE LOCAL AREA MONOPOLY Snowphobia grips Charm City, spreads north to New England WE’RE NO LONGER UNIQUE AS ‘CITY OF SNOW WIMPS’ A one-inch ‘Storm of Significance’   By David Maril   Baltimoreans used to […]

  EMPHASIS SHOULD BE ON PREVENTION, RATHER THAN TRYING TO AFFIX BLAME AND FIND SCAPEGOATS AFTERWARDS Cops on the beat are too often condemned for the poor performance of their bosses. Where is the training and supervision? BALTIMORE NEEDS A 2016 WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER PLUS MASS CLEANUP OF ITS HARBOR-AREA WATERS, AS WELL AS AN […]

    A Voice of Baltimore Feature, an excerpt from EPSTEIN’S PANCAKE, a political thriller set at the end of the Reagan Administration By Bjarne Rostaing BEGIN on a warm September afternoon in a small old fashioned Manhattan tailor shop circa the ‘88 elections.  Me looking at an attaché case, about to buy it, not […]

  WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT CONSUMERS WORLDWIDE WOULD ANTE UP BIG BUCKS TO BUY BOTTLED WATER? Huckster/Snake Oil Salesman ‘Getrich Kwick’ reveals how to make money pandering anything that will sell   By David Maril   With confusion and fear setting in over the rough path the stock market is following in this New Year, […]