On Wednesday night, there was a meeting of the Washington Village/Pigtown Neighborhood Planning Council (WPNPC) Public Safety meeting. On account of the the rash of residential burglaries in the neighborhood, the turnout was pretty good. Some local media attention was also garnered via WBAL-TV. (If you look closely, you can see my [...]
Also tagged BaltimoreAs part of a recent series of threads on the pigtownsafety Yahoo Group, I decided to aggregate some data from the craptastic BCPD Online Crime Tracking site and put it together in an Excel spreadsheet. For the members of that list–and anyone else who cares–that list is available here: Burglary Statistics - Washington Village.xls.
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It’s so easy to complain about the variety of web interfaces that we deal with every day. It’s even more entertaining to complain about the ones that hold some useful information but are incredibly bad presenting that information. I forgot about one of the best–worst?–examples of this.
Behold the wonder that is the Baltimore [...]
Apparently, after a “hard fought” victory in the Baltimore City Council, some of our elected officials have decided to tackle the true problems facing Baltimore. What were the targets of this body’s recent work, you ask: the rising homicide rate, the deplorable state of public schools, or the general inefficiency of city government. None of [...]
Also tagged BaltimoreAs Tip O’Neill said, “All politics is local,” and with that, I turn an eye to the Baltimore City Primary Election happening today. On account of my Republican registration in this city, I am not voting given the incredible dearth of Republican candidates in our heavily Democratic town. I have been pondering changing my party [...]
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