Comments on: Blame Baltimore

By: frank

frank — Mon, 14 May 2007 11:41:53 +0000

Generally, what Steve just said. Actually, the “Greatest City…” slogan predated the Believe campaign, and for painfully obvious reasons, was an immediate failure, and as with all things O’Malley, was mostly about his ambitions and had little to do with Baltimore. Everyone in Baltimore guffawed at its idiocy. The Believe campaign is also retired… so on a factual level, this post is incorrect. Also, I question whether D.C. has really turned a corner itself. As a metropolitan area, there was an adverse correlation between the reduction in violence and murder within the District, and the increase in violence and murder in P.G. County. Real estate values simply shifted your problems a couple of miles to the east. Hardly a matter worthy of self satisfaction, as the trend towards increased urban real estate values coupled with a decay of older inlying suburbs was a national phenomenon. The poverty displacing, demographic shifting real estate boom simply hit Baltimore a little softer than it did D.C.

By: steve

steve — Sun, 13 May 2007 13:53:43 +0000

Joking about mostly young, mostly minority men killing each other over drug turf in post industrial inner city America.Ha Ha. Anyway DC’s murder rate historically has outpaced Baltimore , except for recent years where some of the mayhem has been gentrified out of town into inner ring suburbs of PG county.

The “Greatest City in America” was a typical Martin O’Malley over the topism…most of us in Baltimore shrugged it off as typical city hall silliness (and the irony was not lost on us either).

By: Tom Bridge

Tom Bridge — Sat, 12 May 2007 19:07:00 +0000

Now, I actually *like* a lot of Baltimore, but I recognize that it has its serious downsides.

But places like Little Italy, Charles Village, the Harbor, there’s a lot to like in Baltimore. For more ideas, check out Stacey’s old What’s Good About Baltimore?

And of course, there’s always Federal Hill…

By: Carl Weaver

Carl Weaver — Sat, 12 May 2007 04:04:30 +0000

that’s like selling frozen turds on a stick and adopting the slogan, “Just as good as ice cream.”