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Antero Pietila: Mondawmin: Not your parents’ shopping mall
- A shopping mall or shopping center, according to Wikipedia, “is a building or set of buildings that contain a variety of retail units, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit.”
Antero Pietila: Baltimore’s stream of history
- There is no better walk in Baltimore than along the Gwynns Falls Trail through Leakin Park. Past towering tulip poplars that form a shady canopy on a hot summer day; past the lazy stream that played such a crucial role in the city’s industrial and residential development.
Antero Pietila: Roland Park headlines
- Breaking news: Roland Park’s first African-American resident has decamped. Retired Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Lavon Johnson relocated to Atlanta to be close to a daughter and a sizable farm his kin have owned in Mississippi since the Civil War.
Antero Pietila: Streetcars past and present
- If you ask me, life as we know it is ending, except Americans don’t realize it yet. The reasons are legion. The global economic balance of power is shifting, with BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — flexing muscles. With the high price of gasoline, a serious scientific-industrial scramble is on to find an alternative. One way or another, the future is likely to look very different.
Antero Pietila: Swimming in murky waters
- W hen I came to Baltimore in 1969, one of the first stories I covered involved a Mount Washington homeowner who had been rejected by the local Meadowbrook Swim Club because she was Jewish. The controversy lingered for years.
Antero Pietila: Barack Hussein and Piyush Subhaschandra
- A personal note: In nearly four decades of writing about Baltimore, I have always been on a foreign assignment. That’s because I view the United States with the eyes of an alien, in my case of someone who was born and raised in Finland and who never chose to become a U.S. citizen.
Antero Pietila: Fells Point’s forgetful NIMBYs
- On Saturday I joined hundreds of others to hear an update on a 14-mile rapid-transit line to run from Interstate 70, near Howard County, to Fells Point and Canton. The exact light-rail or bus route — those are the options — will not be known for several months. Construction is projected to start in 2012.
Antero Pietila: Gutenberg in the age of YouTube
- It took me a while to recognize the real significance of YouTube, which has emerged as a truly important disseminator of information during this presidential campaign season. Then it hit me: We are witnessing an unprecedented decline of the written word now that cell phones have transformed America’s behavior patterns, giving almost everyone the capability of video recording and posting 24/7.
Antero Pietila: Before James Rouse became a saint
- Since his death in 1996, developer James W. Rouse has been elevated to sainthood. Adoring biographies celebrate the visionary builder of America’s temples of consumerism, shopping malls, as the unprejudiced creator of breakthrough new towns like Columbia and a champion of affordable housing.
Antero Pietila: Race dialogue begins in Baltimore
- Although Barack Obama acted out of political necessity, the Easter week timing of his extraordinary race speech inspired congregations of various faiths to study and reflect on his themes. Friday’s 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination ensures that race, in all of its complexities, will stay on the national front burner.
Antero Pietila: Easterwood Park’s rites of spring
- About this time each spring, softball became serious business in Easterwood Park. Acie, Coddie, Dodgie, Bince, Moocher, Beezer, Phil the Fumbler, Boffer, Cocky, Boogie, Schnickles, Yoodle and dozens of other kids practically lived in the seven-acre park at Bentalou and Baker streets, practicing and competing.
Antero Pietila: Millennial change rocks America
- This year’s fiercely contested presidential primaries are harbingers of a political realignment with the potential to be as fundamental as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition allying city machines, labor unions, minorities, liberal farm groups, intellectuals and the South.
Antero Pietila: What on earth is going on at WYPR?
- Does WYPR have a death wish? Nothing else explains the public radio station’s incompetent firing of Marc Steiner, its most identifiable local voice.
