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Marta Hummel: Another New Yorker to Baltimore’s rescue?
- New Baltimore City Schools CEO Andres Alonso, 50, may be crazy. He’s the sixth head in 10 years of a system that’s lost about 30,000 students in 15 years and perpetually is in the news for misusing millions of dollars and graduating many students who can’t read or add more than single digits.
Marta Hummel: Truth is hard, but lies are not easy
- We were a former nurse from Australia who knew how to get to the heart of the matter in three sentences and a real estate agent from Arizona with Republican leanings. A Scottish-born Long Islander with her adopted home’s accent. A Presbyterian minister from the Shenandoah Valley on sabbatical en route to take bagpiping lessons in Scotland. A former New Orleans resident who loves the word louche. A retired public defender from San Diego with a passion for oral interpretation of grisly murder scenes. A recovering Republican living in Australia with a penchant for political prose. A widowed writer from Long Island taking her first trip without her husband. And a Miami real estate agent whose alter ego was a matron named Carmen who ran a whore house.
Up, down and up again in Sandtown
- Terrorists hijacked the phrase “religious radical.” But Baltimore needs a lot more of true religious radicals to pull itself from the mire of murderous streets and heroin and perpetually low expectations plaguing it since the 1950s when population started to decline.
- Terrorists hijacked the phrase “religious radical.” But Baltimore needs a lot more of true religious radicals to pull itself from the mire of murderous streets and heroin and perpetually low expectations plaguing it since the 1950s when population started to decline.
Marta Hummel: Redeemed, reformed and still in prison
- He frequently uses military metaphors, refers to himself in the third person and wears black square-frame ’60s style glasses. In Chuck Colson’s mind, that decade generated a “hangover we’re still recovering from.”
- He frequently uses military metaphors, refers to himself in the third person and wears black square-frame ’60s style glasses. In Chuck Colson’s mind, that decade generated a “hangover we’re still recovering from.”
Marta Hummel: Welcome to Butchers Hill — SLASH!
- Last Thursday I awoke to find that some thief slashed my convertible top. I parked it Wednesday after work behind the house I moved into the week before. It seemed to be a grand old neighborhood. This is my first home purchase in more than 30 years of life. It was the second time in eight months in Baltimore that a criminal broke into my car. That equals half of all my car break-ins in a life of living in big cities.
