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Folks from the Baltimore Guide’s community speak out on the issues most important to them.

watts
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May 9, 2012, No comments

Spring brings activity to our neighborhoods. Some of that activity is healthy—sports leagues are starting up, people are power-walking around the parks, the tennis courts, at least in Patterson Park, …

Mary Helen Sprecher

Do flea market raids matter? Only if you care about Baltimore’s economy

May 2, 2012, No comments

Last week, when Homeland Security officials raided the Patapsco Flea Market and confiscated merchandise suspected to be designer knockoffs, the public ...

Election day can get lonely for volunteers and candidates in the city. The Maryland State Legislature’s decision to move city elections to presidential election years will improve turnout and save money, but it doesn’t go far enough—turnout for state elections is higher than for national elections.

There’s always a reason to vote

April 5, 2012, No comments

Quick poll. Did you vote yesterday? Statistics say that nearly three-quarters of registered voters in the City of Baltimore did not. Of course, there ...

greenbeer

Hello, St. Paddy. Goodbye, city

March 29, 2012, No comments

Editor, The Guide: With interest I read your article regarding the aftermath of the area’s most recent St. Patrick’s Day festivities in Canton Squ ...

  • "The scariest part of this weekend was how many people were drinking and driving.  Where were the inspectors? We were also told there were no police in Fell's Point on overtime, it was just a normal deployment. Where were they?"
    St. Patrick’s Day 2012 – Out of Control
    March 21, 2012, No comments

    A letter to the Editor: St. Patrick’s Day was totally out of control this year. Fell’s Point was a mess–lack of police, over-serving of customers, trash, public urination, public intoxication, ...

  • parkingarea43
    Area 43 not fair to residents
    March 8, 2012, 7 Comments

    Editor, The Guide: I’m sure you’ve had your fill of responses to the article regarding Area 43 parking debacle but I owe Councilman Kraft a long over-due letter on the ...

  • readersspeakthumb
    Letter to Editor: MOUs = Quality of Life
    February 15, 2012, No comments

    Editor, The Guide: The Fells Prospect Community Association is in full support of HB 392. This bill would require the liquor board to take the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) into ...

  • parking
    Parking: The new, old problem
    February 15, 2012, 1 Comment

    There was an unusually contentious community meeting Tuesday night, and the issue, as usual, was parking. In the last few years in the overly crowded First District, parking has been ...

  • watts-70x70
    Midterms and higher taxes
    January 18, 2012, 2 Comments

    I hate midterms. Not the exam kind, the legislative kind. I hated the other kind too, but that was a long time ago. Here we are in the second legislative ...

  • maryhelenthumb
    Protect this house from hunger
    January 12, 2012, No comments

    Hungry Marylanders miss 78 million meals a year. The Maryland Food Bank tries to reduce that number, and now that the holidays are over, and we’re into the next tax ...