Douglas Lamdin

59 days ago - Last December, Mayor Sheila Dixon’s Blue Ribbon Committee on Taxes and Fees produced a report reviewing the city’s tax structure, with the focus on reducing Baltimore’s property tax rate. In the end, the committee recommended the city reduce its property tax rate over the next several years by about one-third, or a $0.72 reduction per $100 of assessed value.

59 days ago - Last December, Mayor Sheila Dixon’s Blue Ribbon Committee on Taxes and Fees produced a report reviewing the city’s tax structure, with the focus on reducing Baltimore’s property tax rate. In the end, the committee recommended the city reduce its property tax rate over the next several years by about one-third, or a $0.72 reduction per $100 of assessed value.

169 days ago - The single-statistic approach to ranking things, like cities, is frequently an accurate and entertaining indicator of the quality of what’s getting ranked. These can be positive indicators, like the number of movie screens or Starbucks in a city. These can also be negative indicators, like the homicide rate or the percent of high school dropouts in a city.

200 days ago - The housing market is correcting, the neutral term for prices declining and foreclosures rising. The correction is the painful hangover after the wild party.