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Columns - Michael Olesker
Hope lives between boarded-up houses
- Lucy Curbeam, who will be 85 years old in two weeks, lives between two boarded-up, rotting row houses in the 1600 block of North Washington Street, several blocks above Johns Hopkins Hospital. There are 23 row houses on her block. Fifteen are abandoned, at least officially. Curbeam is keeping count.
- Lucy Curbeam, who will be 85 years old in two weeks, lives between two boarded-up, rotting row houses in the 1600 block of North Washington Street, several blocks above Johns Hopkins Hospital. There are 23 row houses on her block. Fifteen are abandoned, at least officially. Curbeam is keeping count.
Mixing politics and policing raises quid pro quo worries
- On a Saturday morning on the campaign trail a few weeks back, City Councilman Keiffer Mitchell Jr. had to stop in his tracks. He was trying to go door to door off East Baltimore’s Ellwood Avenue. The only thing standing in his way were some gang members who believed this was more their turf than any prospective mayor of Baltimore’s.
For top cop Bealefeld, it’s all about trust
- His name is Perry Simms, and he comes to us this morning from Frederick H. Bealefeld III. Simms is charged with murder. He is 19. Bealefeld is charged with being the new police commissioner of Baltimore. He is a 26-year veteran cop with a sense of perspective. He offers us Simms as the heart of the city’s troubles.
- His name is Perry Simms, and he comes to us this morning from Frederick H. Bealefeld III. Simms is charged with murder. He is 19. Bealefeld is charged with being the new police commissioner of Baltimore. He is a 26-year veteran cop with a sense of perspective. He offers us Simms as the heart of the city’s troubles.
An open letter to Matt Palmer
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Hamm’s ouster does little to dent social miasma
- Here we were, on the night after Leonard Hamm lost his job as police commissioner of Baltimore City, in the darkness outside the Chinese carry-out at Pennsylvania and Clifton, where maybe a dozen boys in their early teens gathered to kill a little time.
Kidney patient finds angel in hospital
- Caitlin Garber, 25, and Al Jordan, 58, have known each other for about five years. He’s a psychiatric nurse at Springfield State Hospital, and she’s a nurse’s assistant there. They’re colleagues, they like each other as pals, they admire each other’s work with patients. And that’s the extent of it.
- Caitlin Garber, 25, and Al Jordan, 58, have known each other for about five years. He’s a psychiatric nurse at Springfield State Hospital, and she’s a nurse’s assistant there. They’re colleagues, they like each other as pals, they admire each other’s work with patients. And that’s the extent of it.
Too few police, too many gangs
- The last time we saw Det. Lamont Davis, at the Eastern District of the Baltimore Police Department, he was holding up a bible that wasn’t exactly his. It was the Blood bible, in which we find the by-laws of the Bloods street gang. Davis was holding it out for inspection when everybody got a little sidetracked.
Small group of officers facing tall task in gangs
- “This,” says Det. Lamont Davis, holding out a book the size of a cops-and-robbers novel, “is the bible.”
Small police unit tries to tackle big gang problem
- Deep in this dreary corridor of the Baltimore Police Department’s Eastern District, across a narrow aisle from a row of empty cells, City Councilman Keiffer Mitchell runs into a couple of plainclothes detectives who are not precisely dressed for a night at the opera.
The vicious cycle of a neighborhood in decay
- When they talk about neighborhoods in full catastrophe in the city of Baltimore, they can start with this one: North Patterson Park Avenue, bisecting Madison, Eager, Biddle and Hoffman, one after another.
Council presidency: Pathway to power or dead end?
- Since history is always instructive, and since most people do not know the history of the last 10 minutes of the Baltimore City Council, today we will let everyone know the deeply held thoughts of the late Wally Orlinsky.
Who needs ‘CSI’?
- The five of them, young women out for a summer evening’s outdoor dinner and drink, got up from their chairs when the first of the police cruisers arrived on the 1200 block of Dundalk Avenue. It looked a little dangerous.
- The five of them, young women out for a summer evening’s outdoor dinner and drink, got up from their chairs when the first of the police cruisers arrived on the 1200 block of Dundalk Avenue. It looked a little dangerous.
Fridays are for friends in Little Italy
- John Pente, in the springtime of his 97th year, climbed the stairs to his third-floor bedroom Friday night, and peered through the window at what he helped to create, and he saw it was good.
