OFFICER  WAS  ONE  OF  17  INDICTED FOR ILLEGALLY SENDING MOTORISTS TO  UNAUTHORIZED  REPAIR  SHOP IN ROSEDALE  AFTER ACCIDENTS   A Baltimore City police officer convicted of taking bribes from a local tow company has cost the city $47,000 to settle a lawsuit filed against him. The city’s Board of Estimates approved the payout Wednesday to […]

  QUASI-PUBLIC AGENCIES’ WORKERS LIVE IT UP AT TAXPAYERS’ EXPENSE   The floundering of publicly funded projects in Baltimore and Western Maryland hasn’t stopped employees of two quasi-public agencies that use taxpayer-backed borrowing to fund private business, from dining in upscale restaurants, enjoying pricey meals and drinks, and attending Baltimore Ravens football games at taxpayer […]

  THE BAND  IS SCHEDULED  TO PLAY  A GIG IN JUNE ALONG  WITH  BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AS PART OF MARITIME FESTIVAL ON WAR OF 1812   Not since candidate Bill Clinton played the saxophone on the old Arsenio Hall late-night talk show in 1992 has a potential presidential candidate been as identified with music as […]

  RONALD WEICH  WAS FORMER CHIEF COUNSEL TO U.S. SENS. TED KENNEDY AND HARRY REID EX-LAW PARTNER OF CITY STATE’S ATTORNEY BERNSTEIN   A former chief counsel to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and the late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and a former law partner of City State’s Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein […]

    A Voice of Baltimore Feature, an excerpt from BLACK OCTOBER AND THE MURDER OF TURK SCOTT    The Case Files of Homicide Lt. Stephen Tabeling A SOON-TO-BE-PUBLISHED MINI-eBOOK ON AMAZON.COM   By Stephen Tabeling and Stephen Janis   Baltimore City, like most communities, has a split personality. Within its borders, alleys and back-ways two parallel worlds […]