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Murder Ink

Murder Ink: Murders this Week: 5; Murders this Year: 77 By Edward Ericson Jr. 5/15/2013
<em>Crazy Horse</em>

Crazy Horse

Film: Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman puts his focus on Le Crazy Horse de Paris, the French cabaret By Lee Gardner 4/4/2012
Poseidon’s Metro Desk

Poseidon’s Metro Desk

Sizzlin’ Summer: Reflections on covering Ocean City, 30 years later By Rafael Alvarez 5/15/2013
Sizzlin’ Summer

Sizzlin’ Summer

Sizzlin’ Summer: Summer in Baltimore is a sensory explosion, from the scent of Old Bay-smothered steamed crabs and the taste of marshmallow-topped chocolate snoballs to the smell of Ocean City salt water mixed with sunscreen and the vision of fireflies. 5/15/2013
Summer Concert Guide

Summer Concert Guide

Sizzlin’ Summer Calendar: Maryland Death Fest XI, Roomrunner, The Melvins, and more 5/15/2013
Issue 38: City Paper 2012 Best of Baltimore

Issue 38: City Paper 2012 Best of Baltimore

Intro: Age ain’t nothing but a number 9/18/2012
Sociable Satanist

Sociable Satanist

City Folk: Occult investigator “Dr. Daniel Rumanos” doesn’t need a day job By Van Smith 8/8/2012
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Best Misuse of Taxpayer Funds

Disbanding the Baltimore Economic Recovery Team and not updating its web site

As everyone knows, beginning in 2009 the federal government sent at least $938 million (possibly more than $3 billion) to Baltimore as part of the American Recovery Reinvestment Act, aka “stimulus.” Originally, the city planned to track that money publicly, through a neat little web site and an ad hoc commission, so citizens could see for themselves all the great things the money bought. Alas, the last update for the web site was in February 2010, by which time only a few hundred million dollars had been accounted for. Although a spokesman for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake promised to look into the matter last year, no update has resulted. And this is a good thing—for who knows how many precious federal dollars the city has saved by not bothering to account publicly for as much as nine-tenths of the money? We’ll take it on faith it’s a lot.

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