These pictures are from about 1:20 p.m. Compare them with the first set an hour earlier here to keep up with the progress:
Don’t forget you can share your [...]
These pictures are from about 1:20 p.m. Compare them with the first set an hour earlier here to keep up with the progress:
Don’t forget you can share your [...]
It’s snowing in the Baltimore area today if you hadn’t noticed already. Accumulations are expected to be anywhere from 1″-3″ or 3″-6″ depending upon what forecaster you look at and what part of MD you live in.
Here are some pictures I took in the Perry Hall area in Baltimore County [...]
From Baltimore.org:
We are looking for a few proud, loud Baltimoreans to represent this great city with pride, honor and cool travel tips. For your brave efforts in spreading the Baltimore love you will earn exclusive access to Baltimore events and attractions, and be featured as an expert on Baltimore.org.
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If you have Google Wave, you can find today’s news wave here or do a search for with:public “Inside Charm City” and then selecting the wave dated today.
Related posts:Discuss today’s news on Google Wave on [...]
Snow is in the forecast for Saturday.
Kweisi Mfume and former Mayor Kurt Schmoke have both recommended Mayor Sheila Dixon apologize, but she has yet to do so. The same article points out that crisis PR specialists are saying that she is making a mistake by remaining quiet. Don’t [...]
All the online and text messaging polls in Baltimore seem to say the same thing: that the vast majority of people think Mayor Sheila Dixon should resign from office after being found guilty in her first trial. I suspect public opinion polls would reveal [...]
Click here to see our Thursday News Wave or search for “with:public insidecharmcity” in your Google Wave search box. You can use other search terms as well, just be sure you’re on our wave for 12/3/09.
You need to already have Google Wave to participate.
Please join the discussion and let [...]
Cecil College has canceled all day and evening classes and other events today due to a water main break.
Be sure to see our special report on the Maryland Congressional Delegation’s expenses for the 3rd Quarter.
On the Dixon trial/verdict front, Brendan Kearney of the Daily Record reported that Dixon [...]
I posted the other day about a new congressional expense report released for the 3rd Quarter of 2009. The complete report is here. I also have the numbers from the Maryland delegation below. The funding source is taxpayer dollars. Based on the Maryland delegation, Lockheed Martin Desktop Solutions [...]
Baltimore, MD
1. collegetown shuttle
2. myumbc
3. bourbon street baltimore
4. welch library
5. bccc.edu
6. jhu library
7. 105.7 the fan
8. jhfcu
9. coppin.edu
10. morgan.edu
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Click here to see our Wednesday News Wave or search for “with:public insidecharmcity” in your Google Wave search box.
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Please join the discussion and let us know your opinion on today’s news items. We’ve included a handful of things to talk about [...]
All the tweets on #dixontrial indicate that some sort of verdict has been reached. This is believed to be a partial verdict on at least some of the 3 counts sitll remaining. Stay tuned for more.
Related posts:Wednesday’s Live [...]
We gave away 8 invitations yesterday. Today, we have 8 more thanks to the generosity of Rob Carlson who offered them to us via Google Wave to give away to our readers.
I will be giving away a Google Wave nomination (invitation) to the first 8 people to post a comment [...]
Click here to see our Tuesday News Wave or search for “with:public Inside Charm City” in your Google Wave search box.
You need to already have Google Wave to participate.
Please join the discussion and let us know your opinion on today’s news items. We’ve included a handful of things to [...]
At least one person was killed this morning in a crash on the ramp to I-695 from I-95.
The Dixon Trial jury has already resumed their 7th day of deliberations today and they’ve already sent a note to the judge. Yesterday, the jury told the judge they [...]
The 23rd season of MTV’s The Real World was filmed this past summer in DC and is set to air soon. There was a lot of coverage on DC blogs and in the media prior to the filming and after it started. Now it seems they may [...]
Verne Troyer is guest host of WWE Raw tonight live from 1st Mariner Arena. The show will air at 9 p.m. EST on USA Network.
When Troyer’s name was first announced, Kevin Eck wondered why Rosedale native Stacy Keibler or Ray Lewis wasn’t the host [...]
John Patti of WBAL AM points out TrainsRCool.com has a listing of all the regional model train displays for the holidays.
Related posts:Amtrak train kills pedestrianHoliday ClosingsBlack Friday [...]
I will be giving away a Google Wave nomination (invitation) to the first 8 people to post a comment on this post. You must put the email address you want the nomination sent to in the email field on the comment. Comments will be closed after the first 8 reply.
Just [...]
Click here to see our Monday News Wave or search for “with:public Inside Charm City” in your Google Wave search box.
You need to already have Google Wave to participate.
Please join the discussion and let us know your opinion on today’s news items. We’ve included a handful of things to [...]
The above picture from a display in the gingerbread village was one I took at Kennedy Krieger’s Festival of Trees this weekend at the Maryland State Fairgrounds. You can see the rest of my pictures below the fold on this [...]
Good morning. We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend.
The jury returns to deliberations today in the Sheila Dixon trial after having the holiday weekend off. Nobody knows what has kept them deliberating this long for sure, but I’m guessing if it keeps up much longer that we may [...]
We asked people for their favorite Maryland place names on Twitter yesterday. Some of the ones we got were Assawoman Bay, Whiskey Bottom, Scaggsville, Boring, Parole, Tuckahoe and North East. Today on our news wave we also got two other names – Accokeek and Accident.
Feel free to add [...]
Click here to see our Wednesday News Wave or search for “with:public Inside Charm City” in your Google Wave search box.
You need to already have Google Wave to participate. (We don’t have any invitations to give out right now.)
Please join the discussion and let us know your opinion on [...]
For those of you travelling today, be sure to check our transit and traffic page for delays. Michael Dresser’s blog has a post with alternate routes for missing the bad traffic whether you’re going north or south today. There’s also a report on I95travelinfo.net being [...]
As the NFL regular season starts approaching the final downhill run to the finish, lists of potential coaches have been coming out for all the expected firings (one already took place at Buffalo.)
Don Banks of SI wrote a column sizing up all the potential hires. Here’s the blurb he [...]
The jurors in the Sheila Dixon trial continued their deliberations with no verdict today. They will return Wednesday morning. Some observers expect a decision prior to Thanksgiving.
Abe Pollin, who purchased the Baltimore Bullets in 1964, died today at the age of 85. Pollin moved the team to [...]
There was a previous blog post here previewing the Maryland Democratic Party’s new blog, called The Online State. The blog is now live and its contributors include Susan Turnbull and Isaac Salazar.
Related posts:Maryland Democrats prepare to launch [...]
In Monday’s News Wave, we had a reader mention that at the rate the jury deliberations were going in the Sheila Dixon trial, that the jury would be ruining some Thanksgiving plans. We asked what might happen with that in our morning news roundup today and in our [...]
We were originally inspired by this Mashable post, so we initially tried this yesterday. The first day was so successful that we’re going to keep doing it.
Click here to see our Tuesday News Wave or search for “with:public Inside Charm City” in your Google Wave search box.
You [...]
This post is a roundup of what’s in the news. You can discuss today’s news items on our Tuesday News Wave on Google Wave.
The jury in the Sheila Dixon trial is headed into a fourth day of deliberations today. How long will the judge let them go before [...]
Inspired by this Mashable post, we’re trying something new today.
Click here to see our Monday Morning News Wave or search for “with:public Inside Charm City” in your Google Wave search box.
You need to already have Google Wave to participate. (We don’t have any invitations to give out right [...]
This post has been updated in two spots. The updated portions are additions that are boldfaced and italicized.
On October 6, Stan Moore of Inside Charm City posted about circumstances at UMBC. On October 5, The Retriever ran a story about an allegation that ” [...]
I saw headlines on Twitter earlier that a penthouse condo at the Ritz-Carlton had sold for $12.6M.
It was later reported by the Daily Record that author Tom Clancy is the buyer.
More details:
In what is being billed as the largest condominium transaction in Baltimore’s history, novelist Tom Clancy has paid [...]
If you haven’t heard already, Bill Toohey is being replaced as public information officer for the Baltimore County Police. The reaction in the internet has been swift and strongly in support of Toohey.
I suggested wider use of the #toohey hashtag after seeing @firepix1075 use it. The reaction is below. [...]
The following traffic figures are from Maryland Politics Watch. Adam also provides the Top 10 list of politically oriented blogs and if you merged the two lists, Inside Charm City would still be #1.
Local Blogs, Site Visits 1/09-10/09
1. Inside Charm City: 267,283
2. Rockville Central: 92,498
3. Just Up [...]
The Baltimore Sun now has this Twitter list of media members tweeting from inside the court room. None of them are Sun reporters, as we noted Monday.
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I saw a tweet from someone in my twitterstream that said goodbye Hauschka or something similar. I found nothing in Google News.
I just did a Twitter search and found that @RobLongShow of 1370 AM reported that he was cut. No replacement has been named but other information I saw [...]
Jamie Harrison has a good post about the racial undercurrents in the Dixon Trial:
This is why Dixon’s attorneys used six challenges to exclude whites from the jury (three finally made it) and state prosecutors used three challenges to exclude blacks (seven ended up in the jury). Even if no [...]
The Maryland Democractic Party has a new blog that has yet to debut. Currently it just has a RSS/Twitter link and a form to sign up for email that notifies you when it is up.
The blog name is The Online State and it will be at http://www.theonlinestate.com/blog/.
[...] It will be interesting to see if the members of the media providing live updates via Twitter from the courtroom will be allowed to continue to do so despite court orders and media protocols forbidding the use of electronic devices in the courtroom.
The Baltimore Sun now has this Twitter list [...]
Matthew Hay Brown of In Good Faith has a report that Monsignor Dennis Tinder of Immaculate Conception in Towson is retiring due to major health issues. Tinder was criticized by parents and students at Towson Catholic H.S. this summer for closing that school.
The Sun has moderation on their comments [...]
I’ve posted a lengthy piece at OnQ Social Media discussing most of the issues going this week regarding Twitter and the trial of Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon. There seems to be some factionalism going on among some of the media people there who are using Twitter and ones who [...]
Today’s session of the Sheila Dixon trial starts at 9 a.m. WBAL TV has live updates here.
You can also follow the trial on Twitter via the #dixontrial hashtag. Be sure to include the hashtag if you’re tweeting about the trial whether you’re in the courtroom or not. We have [...]
Tyler Waldman of the Towerlight has a good profile story on Dundalk native and Towson alum Mike Rowe.
Related posts:T. Rowe Price Congratulates Mary J. Miller on Proposed Nomination to U.S. Treasury [...]
I just got a heads-up from someone asking about traffic on 175 and checked Traffic.com and found out that 175 is closed due to downed power lines between Burns Crossing and 2nd. BG&E is on the scene, but the road will be closed through the morning rush hour. Burns Crossing [...]
Stuck on MARC has more on this issue. Granted I don’t feel like I should even link to their blog anymore after her snotty little comment at the end of this post. A MARC blog that doesn’t even allow comments and who knows how little traffic they actually get [...]
The following ad for Pat McDonough’s campaign for Governor ran in the Washington Times on November 12, 2009:
Click on the above image for a larger version.
Related posts:McDonough: Campaign picks up steamPat [...]
We blogged about The Blind Side, the movie about the life of Ravens’ rookie lineman Michael Oher, in recent weeks. That movie hits theaters today next Friday. The movie is based on the book, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, by Michael Lewis.
Thanks to Twitter user @atrumb [...]
