RSS
Home
New York 
News By Topic
News By Topic
The Baltimore Examiner Newspaper
Stop using SWAT teams on civilians
- The violent assault on Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo’s home late last month was certainly not the first bungled raid by a government SWAT team, but the bad publicity it generated should make it the last time these trigger-happy squads target innocent civilians. Tracking a 32-pound package of marijuana that had been addressed to Calvo’s wife, Trinity Tomsic, Prince George’s sheriff’s deputies forcibly entered the mayor’s home on July 29 and killed his two dogs before handcuffing him and his mother-in-law.
Pals for principals
- Coaching for Baltimore City school principals through the transition to a new management strategy is a good idea — if it’s temporary and ends up saving taxpayers’ money. Chief Executive Officer Andres Alonso is matching 15 coaches with principals as part of his move to decentralize administration.
Water plans all wet
- Drink up, citizens, while we can. And prepare to pay up for future water supplies. A state report reveals not only that Maryland’s outlook is bad, we don’t even know how bad. Ignorance means the single most important factor in public health and economic growth — adequate supply of potable water — is at risk.
Speech police alive at UMBC
- Why is it that we praise student movements abroad, but don’t allow them at home? Or at least seriously curtail them so as not to offend certain groups?
Thuggery quells free speech
- Tom Mattzie is mailing threatening letters this week to nearly 10,000 people with whom the liberal political operative vigorously disagrees. If the recipients act in a way he disapproves of — namely, donating to certain conservative or Republican causes — Mattzie and his new nonprofit group, called Accountable America, will unleash what The New York Times describes as “a variety of potential dangers, including legal trouble, public exposure and watchdog groups digging through their lives.” Mattzie claims he’s simply seeking to prevent dishonest attacks on politicians and causes he favors, but the reality is that such letters are nothing less than political thuggery.
Identity theft and illegal immigration
- Advocates for illegal immigrants often argue that working in this country is not a crime. But it is when you steal someone’s identity to find a job.
No apology needed
- The four U.S. cyclists who apologized to the government for wearing masks in Beijing should withdraw their statements. Saving face is less important than saving their lungs.
Warehousing prisoners doesn’t work
- State prison statistics are grim. They paint a correctional system filled with men who have little to no education and no job skills and a 50 percent probability of returning behind bars three years from the time they exit.
Cutting property taxes will spur ‘smart growth’
- Mayor Dixon, we know you want the city to be “cleaner” and “greener.” But it also needs to be “bigger” to thrive.
Big budget, poor-quality roads
- Marylanders pay higher prices for mediocre-quality roads, according to a study released last week. The Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank, ranked Maryland 38th of the 50 states in its cost-effectiveness in maintaining good roads and bridges, stemming congestion, and lowering accident rates on state-owned roads in its analysis of data from 1984 to 2006.
Iraq surge critics should admit they were wrong
- I t’s been nearly a week since The Associated Press published a news analysis with the provocative title “U.S. now winning Iraq war that seemed lost.”
Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena doesn’t add up
- What’s the real story on Baltimore’s incomprehensible decision to tear down 1st Mariner Arena and build a replacement on the site? The story better be good, because the numbers don’t compute.
Ulman does right by taxpayers
- Howard may be one of the wealthiest counties in the state. But it does not mean residents should pay for take-home cars for county employees, turning the local government into Trips-R-Us headquarters.
Michael Marley
NY Boxing Examiner
Most Recent Article
Krista Ranillo-Manny Pacquiao: It's only a movie
NY Boxing Examiner
Most Recent Article
Krista Ranillo-Manny Pacquiao: It's only a movie
