Cleaning Up: Federal money is expanding drug treatment in Baltimore--and causing providers headaches.

Shadow Economy. Following the players in Baltimore's illegal economy.

Family Portraits. Portraits of Black Guerrilla Family members indicted in Maryland.

Sizzlin’ Summer

Sizzlin’ Summer: City Paper’s homage to the season when it’s so hot and humid your legs to stick to the chair 5/16/2012

Wall To Wall

Feature: Murals by street artists from around the world now occupy Station North By Andrea Appleton 5/9/2012

Lower Dens

Feature: Baltimore’s latest indie-rock hopefuls made the most of their big break and it almost broke them By Brandon Weigel 4/25/2012

• The Bike Issue There was an interesting time in Baltimore where it seemed like city government was ahead of bicyclists in the city. Not in the sense of there being awesome smooth roads and tons of cycling improvements and polite drivers and understanding cops, but in the | 4/18/2012
• Opening Sprint New local cycling advocacy group Bikemore comes off the starting line fighting | 4/18/2012

Sweepstakes Take

Mobtown Beat: A new bill aimed at online “sweepstakes” games has poker machine operators worried By Edward Ericson Jr. 5/9/2012

Metro Crime Stopper

Mobtown Beat: Rookie transit cop arrests federal fugitive, but feds dismiss indictment By Van Smith 5/2/2012

Rainbow Warriors

Mobtown Beat: A group of Goucher students are trying to make Baltimore LGBT-friendly, one business at a time By Laura Dattaro 5/2/2012

• Semantic Engagement City to change zoning language—but not practice—for drug treatment in wake of judge’s ruling | 4/25/2012
• Cashed Out South Mountain Creamery’s bank account seized as part of money-laundering crackdown | 4/18/2012
• A “Common Assault” A boy is sucker-punched; his guardian wants an arrest. It’s not that simple | 4/11/2012

• Murder Ink Murders this Week: 8; Murders this Year: 73 | 5/16/2012
• Murder Ink Murders this Week: 3; Murders this Year: 65 | 5/9/2012
• Murder Ink Murders this Week: 8; Murders this Year: 63 | 5/2/2012
• Murder Ink Murders this Week: 4; Murders this Year: 55 | 4/25/2012
• Murder Ink Murders this Week: 4; Murders this Year: 51 | 4/18/2012
• Murder Ink Murders this Week: 4; Murders this Year: 47 | 4/11/2012

• Councilmania On the agenda for April 30 | 5/9/2012
• Councilmania On the agenda for April 16 | 4/25/2012
• Councilmania On the agenda for Feb. 27 | 3/7/2012
• Councilmania On the agenda for Jan. 23 | 2/1/2012
• Councilmania On the agenda for Jan. 9 | 1/18/2012
• Councilmania On the agenda for Aug. 15 | 8/24/2011

Walkscore.com/Crime

Static: Who wouldn’t want to leave their home and take 10 steps to buy a fresh French croissant? Croissant-haters, of course, but you get the point: For many, walking to get most everything you need or want is an amenity. A web site called walkscore.com has been g 4/18/2012

City Employees Do Not Equal City Dwellers

Static: In early 2011, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake launched Open Baltimore, the city’s online open-data initiative, to a good deal of fanfare. City agencies were now required to post their publicly available data online. But time passed, and many of the data s 4/11/2012

• Get Your Goat Stirring new amendments to health code regulations regarding exotic, wild, and hybrid animals. | 4/4/2012
• Ruthless Steeple St. Peter the Apostle Church was recently sold by the Archdiocese of Baltimore | 3/28/2012
• Twitter City Select #StateOfTheCity tweets that showed up on live.baltimorecity.gov during Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's Feb. 13 State of the City speech | 2/15/2012

• Whose Money? Perhaps Mr. Curran needs a lesson on how the “real world” works. | 5/16/2012
• Pit Bulls Not Savage The Humane Society of the United States is extremely disappointed in the recent Maryland Court of Appeals decision designating all pit bull-type dogs as categorically dangerous | 5/9/2012
• Walkably Significant I appreciated the examination of crime statistics in high-walkability and low-walkability neighborhoods that you all ran recently | 5/2/2012
• Bike Issue not Bike-Y enough You can’t please everyone all the time, City Paper, but you do a pretty good job | 4/25/2012
• Keep the Government Off Our Children’s Penises As Edward Ericson Jr. noted in a notice about a local appearance by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Baltimore Weekly Highlights, April 4), the writer/activist is “against female circumcision and other barbaric traditions of the Muslim world.” As he failed to note, she als | 4/18/2012
• Tom Tomorrow on Target His cartoon in your issue of April 4 is the single best incisive explanation that I’ve yet seen that explains what is wrong in a nutshell. President Obama and Team Maryland dropped the ball when they enacted the current Affordable Health Care Act without a | 4/11/2012