Michael Phelps

701 days ago - The Baltimore police boss slipped into retirement with story after story on “pensiongate,” overtime abuse, questionable arrests and poor homicide closure rates searing his backside. The Democratic leadership in Annapolis would be forced to admit the public outcry following relentless Examiner publishing on the special session directed their galling tax increases toward, but regrettably, not to complete extinction.

701 days ago - In 2007, The Washington Examiner could confidently, without a formal survey, count among its devoted if not always enthusiastic readers Police Chief Cathy Lanier, D.C. financial czar Natwar Gandhi and Michelle Rhee, the District’s new schools chancellor, thanks to determined reporters like Bill Myers and Scott McCabe.

971 days ago - Numbers don't tell the most important part of the story, but still: Thousands of stories of Baltimore area people and Baltimoreans, 312 days of publishing through yesterday, 600 advertisers contracted, a 97 percent delivery rate, an 80 percent readership rate with daily readers totaling an average of 359,000 must mean something. At 250,000 copies per day, offering up five editions to the metropolitan market, The Baltimore Examiner from Day 1, April 5, 2006, became the largest circulation daily newspaper in Maryland, even without the 80,000 copies of the Maryland edition of its sister Examiner in Washington.

1063 days ago - The Marine was a fighter pilot, back in September 1944 from the Pacific for training in North Carolina and to marry his Hoosier sweetheart. She was a 20-year-old from Terre Haute, Ind.

1064 days ago - The Baltimore Examiner’s name plate appears in purple these days, signifying our shoulder-to-shoulder commitment to our home team and its fans/our readers.

1118 days ago - Independent auditors typically analyze newspaper circulation and readership annually. The Baltimore Examiner, tabloid and free to readers, is not a typical newspaper. So we ordered an audit five months into business, a little fearful but buoyed by the warm reception of readers and advertisers (now nearly 500 strong), who told us success stories about their promotional campaigns.

1131 days ago - A thread of political anomaly twists through: 1.) Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Ben Cardin and gubernatorial hopeful Martin O’Malley believing former President Clinton will lift their electoral chances by stumping for them here last week. 2.) Democrats using incumbent President Bush’s laudatory words about Michael Steele in an anti-Steele commercial. 3.) Michael Steele’s endorsement by former brother-in-law, ear-biting fighter, Mike Tyson (and his promoter, Don King).

1151 days ago - Since the first day readers met Kim Nichols, e-mails and personal comments have flowed. He’s The Examiner hawker earning the title of Mayor of President and Fayette streets.

1175 days ago - The Baltimore Examiner and Baltimore Research, whose founder and president is heavy-duty thinker and analyst Jay White, are joining forces to publish behavioral polling under “Baltimore Speaks.” Questions will include ones like: “Should smoking be banned in all public places in Maryland?” and “Do you cheat on your taxes? Have you ever been caught?” Baltimore Research clients include Johns Hopkins, NBC and Procter & Gamble. It has a staff of 78 and a database of 80,000 participants. The size and segmentation of the database allows the firm to populate target research groups with a high level of accuracy. The first Baltimore Speaks will grace our pages in the next couple of weeks. Please suggest questions and let me know what you think of the feature.