SENIOR  U.S. SENATOR  HONORED  SATURDAY AT SITE  OF  HISTORIC SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT THAT BEGAN IN UPSTATE NEW YORK IN 1848 Baltimore-bred  jazz  singer  Billie  Holiday and Clinton Cabinet Secy. Donna Shalala honored along with 8 others, five dead By Alan Z. Forman Maryland’s senior U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, the longest-serving female senator in American […]

  ‘RESIST WAR-MAKING,’  DESTRUCTION, EX-GREEN PARTY NOMINEE DECLARES Allwine lost bid for Md. State House in 2010  to O’Malley,  finished 3rd The Green Party’s candidate for governor of Maryland in 2010 called for a “new culture of resistance in this country” at a town hall meeting held this week at Baltimore’s Cathedral of the Incarnation. […]

  JUROR  IN  MURDER TRIAL CHARGES HARASSMENT FROM OTHER JURORS Judge  delivers  ‘Allen  charge’ in open court after complaint UPDATE (Wed. Sept. 28):  HUNTER FOUND GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER IN SHOOTING DEATH OF VIETNAM VET CHARLES BOWMAN Sentencing set for Nov. 23 A juror in the murder trial of the man charged with killing a […]

  BOARD  OF  ESTIMATES APPROVES $120K FOR ‘EXECUTIVE SEARCH’ Mayor’s office mum on details of vetting  for top appointees UPDATE (Sept. 27):  MAYOR ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT OF CITY FINANCE DIRECTOR EDWARD J. GALLAGHER.  In an email sent out early Tuesday Mayor Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake announced that “a national search for Mr. Gallagher’s replacement will commence immediately.” […]

7th  DISTRICT  COUNCILWOMAN LOST REELECTION BID SEPT. 13 The Pat Jessamy mistake Baltimore Councilwoman Belinda K. Conaway (D-7th) today called on U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein to prosecute the candidate who defeated her in the city’s Democratic primary a week ago Tuesday. In a letter to Rosenstein dated September 19, Conaway asserts that challenger Nick Mosby’s […]