The Mail:
Eric James aka JahHannibal Abba-Ra.
5/23/2012
The Mail:
Perhaps Mr. Curran needs a lesson on how the “real world” works.
5/16/2012
The Mail:
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
The Mail:
I appreciated the examination of crime statistics in high-walkability and low-walkability neighborhoods that you all ran recently
5/2/2012
The Mail:
You can’t please everyone all the time, City Paper, but you do a pretty good job
4/25/2012
The Mail:
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
The Mail:
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
The Mail:
in Morton’s City Paper column we get a presentation of the several culprits in the Martin case—the NRA, or ALEC, and much more
4/4/2012
The Mail:
Loved your article (“Dogged Out,” Mobtown Beat, March 21).
3/28/2012
The Mail:
The dregs of society are exposed for their amorality and indecency
3/21/2012
The Mail:
All relationships have problems, you just have to weather the storms or seek other shelter
3/14/2012
The Mail:
If they really want to help children, use their prodigious effort and energy to actually do that.
3/7/2012
The Mail:
You have highlighted a real problem for access nationwide.
2/29/2012
The Mail:
Out of Reach provided me with a greater perspective. I didn’t realize what was behind the BGF
2/22/2012
The Mail:
To be clear, I have lived on the same corner in Northeast Baltimore my entire 60-plus years. I will die on my corner. Having said that, it is embarrassing to see this city relegated to second-tier status in the past 20 years simply because of its leadership
2/15/2012
The Mail:
The months-long broken ATM, caught by your roving camera this past week, suddenly started working!
2/8/2012
The Mail:
Regarding the letter by Thomas Fox about what sends males to warring
2/1/2012
The Mail:
American Lives are not more important than other people’s lives!
1/25/2012
The Mail:
Do not cash in your bonds and max out credit cards. On Dec. 21, 2012, the world does not end.
1/18/2012
The Mail:
I am a controversial black woman seasoned with seasonings from the salt of the earth.
1/11/2012
The Mail:
last year’s People Who Died feature mistakenly stated was a look back over the year 2010
1/4/2012
The Mail:
Thank you for your tribute, It was almost as delicious as his cooking
12/28/2011
The Mail:
I was greatly disappointed by City Paper’s selections as listed in “The Year in Film”
12/21/2011
The Mail:
I would like to inform Lionel Foster that Black America is not really consciously charitable toward each other
12/14/2011
The Mail:
Editor’s note: With this issue, we say a bittersweet goodbye to Web Editor Tim Hill. Tim has been with the paper for 11 years, and in that time he has almost single-handedly taken the paper from just that—a paper with a rudimentary web presence (see tinyu
12/7/2011
The Mail:
Our family has also made a tradition of enjoying oysters around the holidays
11/30/2011
The Mail:
MICA’s Shadra Strickland did the right thing to turn her students loose on McKeldin Square.
11/23/2011
The Mail:
I really grooved on Brian Morton’s paraphrasing of Elizabeth Warren
11/16/2011
The Mail:
I saw your article on the Libertarian Party (“Considering the Alternatives,” Feature, Oct. 26). On paper they sound good. However, looking deeper into their laissez faire view of capitalism has led me to the conclusion that Libertarians are fascists who wou
11/2/2011
The Mail:
There are penalties associated with the inappropriate use of the ™ symbol.
10/26/2011
The Mail:
In this society, we are plagued by the need for instant success and the silly belief in individualism.
10/19/2011
The Mail:
For being in a “city that reads,” Baltimore’s alt-weekly sure doesn’t pay much attention to the book world.
10/12/2011
The Mail:
Nice Best of. I read so much of it while on the can that my legs fell asleep.
9/28/2011
The Mail:
I want to applaud City Paper for examining the events of Sept. 11 a little closer than most.
9/21/2011
The Mail:
You’re right. The City Paper staff has shown a commitment to this city WAY beyond the paltry economics of working for a weekly paper.
9/14/2011
The Mail:
We need a media that really covers our issues—as they came out at a forum like the mayoral candidate’s forum at the Enoch Pratt Library on Aug. 30!
9/7/2011
The Mail:
Your recent article regarding the 8th District race mistakenly labels Dayvon Love as “the youngest candidate for office in the city”.
8/31/2011
The Mail:
Thanks very much for Edward Ericson Jr.’s revealing article on the Grand Prix, It seems that the city has spent quite a bit of money without any serious analysis.
8/24/2011
The Mail:
Why, why, why would you create such an ugly, disagreeable image as this week’s cover?
8/17/2011
The Mail:
Excellent article on Baltimore’s digital media! Michael Byrne provides an insightful analysis of what’s out there without hitting too hard on what’s not.
8/10/2011
The Mail:
On the 42nd anniversary of the first moon landing, City Paper arrived at my door.
7/27/2011
The Mail:
I was disappointed to find that the cover photo on City Paper for July 13 (Big Music Issue) was just that, a photo.
7/20/2011
The Mail:
On behalf of the board of directors of Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS), I want to clarify a few of the many inaccuracies in “Barking Mad” (Feature, June 29).
7/13/2011
The Mail:
The Maryland Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is a partner with BARCS in the Baltimore Animal Welfare Alliance
7/6/2011
The Mail:
I thought that it would be a good time to let your paper know that there is another much more social league—the Baltimore Bocce league.
6/29/2011
The Mail:
I supported HB 235 because I have friends who are trans and who are impacted by irrational discrimination.
6/22/2011
The Mail:
I noted with considerable bemusement your article on the enterprising merchants hustling bottled water and other drinks at Baltimore intersections
6/15/2011
The Mail:
When an organism becomes sick and weak, it attracts parasites. The same must be true of nations.
6/8/2011
The Mail:
Will wonders never cease? I can’t ever remember reading anything in your paper concerning the War of 1812 in the last 25 years.
6/1/2011
The Mail:
“Beachwood Park Memoirs” by Lee Gardner is a fantastic read. The article took me back to a wonderful place in time.
5/25/2011
The Mail:
Brian Morton is a gifted political writer and he has never disappointed me with his Political Animal columns
5/18/2011
The Mail:
I wish I were as convinced of Marshall “Eddie” Conway’s guilt as Edward Ericson Jr.
5/11/2011
I congratulate you on Michael Corbin’s review of Eddie Conway’s book Marshall Law.
5/4/2011
The Mail:
I wanted to challenge the notion that Baltimore has bike advocates.
4/27/2011
The Mail:
The wonderful Tina Barney photograph depicts the living room, on Park Avenue, owned by her family.
4/20/2011
The Mail:
Anna Ditkoff writes that Jane Eyre is immune to a Monster send-up—WRONG. The “send up” is Jane Slayre.
4/13/2011
The Mail:
When King Solomon was confronted by two women, each of whom claimed to be a child’s mother, he suggested chopping the child in half, giving one half to each woman. The real mother, naturally, refused, thinking of her child’s well-being.
4/6/2011
The Mail:
In his letter to the editor, Leo Otterbein mischaracterized my view on abortion and the status of a fetus.
3/30/2011
The Mail:
In response to the article on Otis Rolley, when I first came across him, I was excited! A young black man with new ideas. Even early in the article I was rooting for him.
3/23/2011
The Mail:
Thank you for an interesting article on a topic that is of great interest to us here at the Libraries at Johns Hopkins.
3/16/2011
The Mail:
I know it’s just an advertising supplement, and it’s probably a bear to deal with editorially, but EAT was such a disappointment this year.
3/9/2011
Mail & Email:
The crimes against animals in this article are abominable!
3/2/2011
The Mail:
I write in regard to Edward Ericson Jr.’s Feb. 16 article about a liquor board case in Pigtown.
2/23/2011
The Mail:
I would like to thank Ed Ericson [Jr.] for his article “Forbidden Zone.”
2/16/2011
The Mail:
I found the article on Denise Whiting disturbing in so many ways...
2/9/2011
The Mail:
I am saddened to see that such a fine charity as Viva House would be asked to sign a form stating it is in compliance with the PATRIOT Act provisions on terrorism funding (“Anti-Terrorism Begins at Home,” Mobtown Beat, Jan. 19). This law, which is slowly ta
2/2/2011
The Mail:
As president of a group of performance artists and performance poets who do fundraising/consciousness-raising for the homeless and the shelters that serve them, I am publicly instructing all members in good standing of Gimme Shelter Productions to act in un
1/26/2011
The Mail:
Writing for a unanimous court in Schenck v. United States, a 1919 U.S. Supreme Court case testing the limits of free speech in anti-draft efforts, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. held that “[t]he most stringent protection of free speech would not protect
1/19/2011
The Mail:
Last year, when City Paper listed Coldstream Homestead Montebello (CHM) as a community with a high number of murders, we wrote a response citing a reduction in our crime rate and detailing why we were hopeful that our progress would continue. This year, Cit
1/12/2011
The Mail:
Neither you nor The New York Times, in your year-end review of notable people who died in 2010 mentioned Tony Judt, the great thinker/writer/historian/stylist.
1/5/2011
The Mail:
Just wanted to write and tell you that Joe MacLeod is a fucking idiot and a hack (“Tron: Legacy,” Film, Dec. 22) . He should be relieved of his duties at City Paper immediately.
He writes as though he has a “buddy buddy” relationship with his audience. We
12/29/2010
The Mail:
I read Edward Ericson Jr.’s “Top 10 Financial Outrages of 2010” and was disappointed to see blatantly inaccurate reporting.
12/22/2010
The Mail:
In choosing the winners for your Fiction Contest (Dec. 1), what criteria did City Paper and your staff of judges use? By no means am I trying to demean or slight any of the winning writers’ works (I’m sure they put in a lot of time and effort on their stori
12/15/2010
The Mail:
City Paper managed to do a hatchet job on International Longshoremen’s Association Local 333 (“Union Busted,” Feature, Nov. 24). The overwhelming majority of the members of my local are dedicated, hard-working, tax-paying citizens. We are assets to our co
12/8/2010
The Mail:
Why should anyone be "Waiting for the Plan," (Feature, Nov. 10) when a terrific plan is already in place-namely ripping off the system. I'm amazed my tax dollars are being so shamelessly squandered.
There may be effective drug treatment programs in Baltimo
11/17/2010
The Mail:
Thanks to Andrea Appleton for the well-researched article on community schools and the careful analysis (“Class Struggle,” Feature, Nov. 3). I want to clarify one or two things, and add an important shout-out.
First of all, in that prominent quotation, I
11/10/2010
The Mail:
Statewide ban on synthetic cannabinoids could be windfall for drug dealers
11/3/2010
The Mail:
I will be voting for incumbent Gov. Martin O’Malley Nov. 2, as I did in 2006. I’d endorsed and voted for Bob Ehrlich in 2002, only to experience four years of name-calling and missed opportunities.
10/27/2010
The Mail:
In his piece “Freeing Willie”, Hal Riedl seemingly takes to task Baltimore’s entire criminal justice system. Included are two points he attempts to make as they relate to the Maryland Parole Commission—one of which is inaccurate and another that is not fully explained.
10/20/2010
The Mail:
Brian Morton is right (“Polls,” Political Animal, Oct. 6). With local Republicans fed up and Robert Ehrlich getting some good early numbers, Gov. O’Malley is hitting the airwaves heavily—mostly the African-American radio stations—and even going so far as to
10/13/2010
The Mail:
I read the incredible article “The Stuttering Con Man” about Darien Craig Small. The article depicts a criminal who preys on innocent people and their money through fraud.
10/6/2010
The Mail:
Your recognition of WYPR-FM’s The Signal as Best Radio Show (Best of Baltimore, Sept. 22) was well deserved, but you neglected to mention Lisa Morgan as the other co-creator and producer of that fine show.
9/29/2010
The Mail:
To answer Rosalind Ellis Heid’s question (“Save the Date,” The Mail, Aug. 25), the reason the date of the primary election is not on political propaganda is the limited amount of space available and the assumption that the average voter is smart enough to learn when to vote.
9/22/2010
The Mail:
Thanks to City Paper for its coverage of BiMA.fest last week, and thanks to all the people that attended the events and seminars this weekend, as well as sent e-mails of encouragement about your experience of the events.
9/8/2010
The Mail:
Regarding the letter from Larnell Custis Butler in the Aug. 25 issue where she blasted Republicans (“Republican White Devils,” The Mail)—from a blue-eyed devilish white—you go (home)girl! You are so right on!
I don’t know why the Republican Party isn’t ab
9/1/2010
The Mail:
It really infuriates me when I pick up literature about the upcoming primary election and then can’t find the date. For some reason, candidates think everyone knows when the event will happen and assume this minor detail is of no concern.
8/25/2010
The Mail:
New website, new college guide, and staff changes
8/18/2010
The Mail:
Recently, I discovered an interesting article by Mr. Wrong. The article speaks of Mr. Wrong’s column now being presented once a month instead of weekly.
8/11/2010
