Was Dixon’s swearing-in legal? Conaway still wants to know

Baltimore is 'plagued' with issues (crimes) concerning public servants. Take a look at the murder of a prominent District Attorney Jonathan Luna.....still no leads!

I LOVE Sheila Dixon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

"the generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness"

I don't think we've heard a peep on this story since Arnold Weiner came aboard. I'll bet he's going to try to make this very quietly go away, for sure he won't want her tried in the court of public opinion, she'd lose!

HA...Who is she going to sleep with to pay her new high power white lawyer? I just wonder why she didn't hire one of the local creepy defense attourney's like a Murphy or a Brown? The I'm black and proud only works in certain areas. What ever happened to miss holy rolys husband Thomas Hampton at the time she was lifting her skirt for the fur of murdered animals?

Sheila Dixons is trying for Baltimore City, Baltimore has taken a hard hit. Baltimore a city that was so vibrate in the fifty and sixtys- I know I have been here. Gave the Mayor sometime to try and get this city back to the beautiful city that it was in the earlier years. Have faith--give Mayor Dixon some slack. We do give up early. Peace. J.T P.S---don't forget to do your part..........

Ironic that Sheila Dixon has a white man respresenting her. She is going to get very white, very fast.

Bad Girl Bad Girl, whutcha gonna do when they come for you Bad Girl Bad Girl...

Do the taxpayers pay her legal bills? Too bad Johnny Cochran's dead or she could hire him too.

I thought I was looking at a crack head the first time I saw her. I suspect some drug abuse there. I also found it ironic that one of her first "beautification projects" was the median on Edmondson Ave...the way she likely goes home to her single family home spitting distance away from Baltimore County.

Dixon is on her way to jail.She can get all the lawyers she wants , but it is not going to work. You are on your way slowly to jail Sheila !

the new york post said it all.baltimore is trash run buy trash.dixon is a joke and all the rest wont speak up because they have there hand's out for there pay out.

Sheila baby, you can run but you can not hide.

Club Fed awaits 3 Hots and a Cot!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote Olesker in an earlier article this past week.... Dixon is an attractive woman, and she was involved with a man, developer Ronald Lipscomb, whose history is complicated ATTRACTIVE???...ATTRACTIVE??? Did you see todays front page edition? She should have used the gift cards for a makeover or to get her teeth fixed

Menasha Brodie should be investigated as well.

Where is the "Teflon Leprechan" in all of this??

most of the entire maryland goverment cities and state judges and who ever workes for them need to go to jail they all need to be looked into case by case

Sheila Dixon said, " I'm going to survive this". Well, if a lenghty stay in prison is surviving, you go girl!

Surprise surprise. Sheila blames the media and RACISM. This just in: Five more shot in Baltimore City; Sheila blames RACISM. Baltimore streets filthy:Sheila blames RACISM. City "students" score worse in state: Sheila blames RACISM. Sheila has a bad hair day: Sheila blames RACISM. City Hall needs new paint job: Sheila blames RACISM. Baltimore City is a dead and decaying city: Sheila blames RACISM. O'Malley blames Ehrlich for all the ills in the world, Sheila blames RACISM. yada yada yada.

shame on you all. dixon,gov, city coun, and all of you who wont tell all that you know. SHAME ON YOU.

The problem is that many of the elected politicians in Baltimore, like Sheila Dixon, etc., are just not very sophisticated even if they have an academic education(which is Dixon's case is suspect). So, well-heeled, smart talking, developers, contractors, and foundations, befriend them, finance them, and get anything they want. This keeps Baltimore behind. The needs of the majority people of the larger community are never met.

it's sad i think you will make it. there is no light at the end. all of the city has a hand in this. dixon you are a crook.gov o,maley you are a crook.city coun, you are all crooks. so yes i think you will make it there are to many of you watching and hideing the truth. BALTIMORE WILL NEVER CHANGE.

“What really bothers me is I can’t talk about any of this, because it’s under investigation, but certain media people are getting information through the prosecutor’s office,” Dixon said. “That really bothers me, because there’s a process. I think that’s more disturbing than anything.” That is a lie. She is free to say anything she wants to about the case. There is not a "gag" order issued by a judge. An outright lie, to gain sympathy, I guess.

I would rather stay with Sheila Dixon than get the chic that runs the city council...She is lazy and eats way too much. She looks like a cow that has grazed too much on hormone rich corn, and then had 3 packs of hair put on top of it!

Well well well. She STOPPED once the investigation began. How brave of you Sheila! I guess that makes everything right! Do the honorable thing and resign. IF you are honorable. Many doubts about that. Can you say political prostitute?

typical examiner reporting -- a two-decade-old civics textbook lead. what of the contracts and the promises and the realities of economic return on publicly financed projects. they always fall way short of even the written promises in contracts, let alone oral ones and the fur coats and trips and such

Lowering the property tax in one area to equal that in the county for a period of 10 years would be a GREAT way to see if that theory holds water. City Hall would still have plenty of tax money to collect from the remainder of the city, so it wouldnt kill the budget, if it works the tax base in the "test" area would grow quickly. We must do something to save this city. High property taxes are holding back growth. As it stands now nothing gets built without special tax breaks and special city loans. Other citys have done this with much success. Boston and San Francisco lowered its property tax rates to make the city competitive with surrounding suburbs, and after an initial shock to the budget, were able to increase the city budget because of the growth each city experienced. To Baltimore City Council Memebers -- feel free to steal this idea from me and use it as your own. Except for Rikki Spector- retire you louse -you've havent made 1 positive change in your entire career

The report this article mentions is titled" Baltimores Failed Renaissance" and points out just how devistating the citys use of "Eminent Domain" has been. It is an eye opening article for anyone who has wondered, "where did the city of Baltimore go wrong"? It shows why lowering property taxes is the best way to encourage widespread investment throughout the city. Eminent Domain only improves small areas and actually hurts the city as a whole. I propose our so called leaders in City Hall lower the property tax rate in only one neighborhood of the city to equal that of the countys to see if that spurns public investment in that area. The area bordered by Greenmount Av, to Lanvale St, to 33rd to the Jones Falls is one area that lower property tax rates would encourage widespread investment, expanding the tax base. No tax breaks, or city loans would be needed-the lower property tax rate and the areas ammenities would attract investment. A Must READ --Baltimores Failed Renaissance

the woman is without ethics. she's not worthy of the position. black or white, green or yellow, surely you agree with this.

It doesn't matter if Dixon's vote was needed or not...the unethical part is that she voted at all. There is just way too many issues associated with Dixon,,,,her sister having a no-show job, the whole Utech issue, the computer guy getting $500,000 in city work without a contract, now all of this....this woman is crooked, period!

Go figure. The unethical behavior stopped as the Feds started looking. Why stop the behavior if there is not a problem? Stopping is a clear admission of guilt on her part. Sheila is just another petty politcal crook that needs to go.

Keiffer was on the council that confirmed all these shady deals. Run again, Jill, Run!!!

Ya coulda voted for Keiffer instead!

Dixon's vote was not neded. These projects were pushed by O'Malley who controlled the three votes necessary. Had O'Malley needed her vote, she would not have abstained whether or not she was gettin a little somthin somthin from Lipscombe on the side.

caught with your hands in the tax payers jar,not yet in jail, so far,looking like your not guility,hoping this will end quickly. spent money out on a fling,bought dimonds,pearls and fur things,didnt think they would notice,made it to mayor when they voted.gift cards were met for the neady,gave to my friends cause im greedy,im the queen,the princess the leader,dont need you,dont want you,dont care.im the great mayor, shelia dixson,leave me alone ,or ill get martin to fix yeah...this poem is dedicated to all those great felons before her,Edward norrrs,jacky mclain,govenor mandel,and my one,and only,one time favorate richard milhouse nixson,rythems with dixson...will be seeing you soon shelia ...ps unless martin gets me out of this mess,or im telling, love shelia....i am not a crook.....where have i heard that before

When Dixon did every corrupt thing the old boys do, she became part of the old boy network. I hope for the sake of the city's future that she does not survive this, and I hope she brings the others down with her. That is the only way to end the corruption.

Even if the Dixon leave office which is doubtful, the city just gets Rawlings-Blake, more of the same or worse. Dixon's removal would mean nothingunder that scenario. Blake is owned by O'Malley too.

Dixon appointed the so-called Ethics board. They would never find a violation or else they would be removed, duh.

The "Teflon Leprechaun" Gov. Martinez O'Malley is being very quiet right now. But rest assure he has his henchmen working under cover of darkness to protect himself first and She-Lie Dixon. As the mayor of the city he knew what was going on. And now things are coming to the surface for all to see just how shady he was as the mayor and he just as shady and crooked as the Governor.

Corruption such as this will continue in the Baltimore City government as well as the State of Maryland government as long as it is the current one party rule. Socialism is alive and well in both the state and the city and, frankly, in most of our metropolitan counties. If this is what the voters want, this is what the voters get.

people we have got to fight for change. call, e mail send letters she must go.if we let this slide its our fault... it is time NOW.

Sheila, you seem to be ethically challenged. You clearly acted unethically when you voted on tax benefits for Doracon. Ethically you were compelled to declare your relationship, the gifts received, and then recuse yourself from voting. Listen up Sheila, the rules made you ethically disqualified from participation in a decision on tax benefits for Doracon on your personal involvement alone, the gifts exacerbate your prejudice. If Baltimore City ethics allow something less, their ethics policy is a joke. That you don’t get Ethics 001 is all the voters need to know about your moral and ethical character. Sheila, you shall be sanctioned, and hopefully prosecuted, for ethics and conflict-of-interest violations.

yes, life seems to be imitating art in the fictional corruption in the wire.

What arrogance these people have!

Mayor Dixon should be a ashamed of herself selling her city, soul, and body to a high end developer. Ron Lipscomb has heavy pockets in political donations to key figures in the Democratic Party even Obama. After watching the last season of "The Wire" her character is coming to light.

for the frist time i hear panic and despiration in dixsons voice and she named martin omalley for the frist time,as if it was his doing,thats a sure sigh she is in a panic mode,,,if she panics more maybe she will tell us more about matins dealings,when he was mayor

Lokk at that picture the two thieves!!!!!!!!!

It seems to me the Govenor, than Mayor has a part in this somewhere. You all notice how this is my back for your back. They all take care of one another until one gets caught. None of these players give a damm about the taxpayer. They will get there justice eventually.