Schaefer Statue Unveiled on Governor’s Birthday

Gov. William Donald Schaefer turned 88 yesterday. In addition to being governor of Maryland, Mr. Schaefer  was also Baltimore mayor, City Council president, Maryland comptroller. It’s not that the man couldn’t hold a job. It’s more like no one job was big enough to hold the man. The occasion was [...]

Two Maryland Racetracks To Be Sold At Auction

Maryland’s two largest horse tracks, Pimlico Racetrack in Baltimore City and Laurel Park in Anne Arundel County, will be auctioned off, The Baltimore Sun reports.
Maryland reportedly has assurances that the Preakness would remain at Pimlico and not be moved to another state, regardless of who buys the tracks.
The auction has received a green light from [...]

Blob’s Park Has Reopened

Blob’s Park, the venerable and beloved Bavarian bier garten and polka-waltz dancehall south of Baltimore, is open again on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons. The Rhinelanders band is back, along with the “Beer Barrel Polka” and the Chicken dance. And everything else, from fast, turning Viennese Waltzes to country ballads and swing.
Talk about [...]

“Baltimore Breaking News” — Cutting-Edge News Web Site

Thanks to Alphainventions.com, I have just discovered a new Baltimore Sun Web site, and I am impressed! Beyond impressed. I think The Sun may have finally solved the puzzle that has been bedeviling newspapers everywhere: How to best use the Web to for news content.
Take a look at Baltimore Breaking News and see what you [...]

Boys in Danger: The End of Civilization in Maryland?

Item: A funeral was held this morning (Wednesday) for Christopher David Jones, age 14, who died after an attack by five to seven youths on a tree-lined street of townhouses in Crofton, Anne Arundel County. Two minors have been charged in the incident. A community meeting will be held at 7 this evening in Crofton.
Item: [...]

Washington Post Disses Baltimore Orioles

The state of the incredible shrinking newspaper industry is worse than I thought.
The Washington Post has discontinued regular staff coverage of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team.
For years and years, The Post provided excellent coverage of The Birds, supplemented with frequent columns by the great Tom Boswell. Heck, Boswell even wrote books about the Orioles, in [...]

MPT’s “Citizen Schaefer” Rebroadcast Scheduled

Maryland Public Television will broadcast its acclaimed documentary on the life of Gov. William Donald Schaefer on Wednesday, Apr. 8, at 9 p.m. Check local listings for the MPT channel in your part of Maryland. Thanks to Michael Golden of MPT for the information.
If you have an interest in Maryland government, politics, or history, you [...]

MPT’s “Citizen Schaefer”

The Maryland Public Television biographical documentary on Gov. William Donald Schaefer has tapped a deep well of emotion and respect for the man whose vocation was service to the people of Baltimore and Maryland. My April 2008 blog post about Mr. Schaefer at home in retirement has been the top post on Maryland On My [...]

Slots In Maryland: Winners Are Cordish Cos. and Arundel Mills Mall

UPDATE — Statewide, bidders offer to put in 6,550 slot machines out of 15,000 possible. Cordish at Arundel Mills would be the largest — 4,750 slots at a $1 billion slots palace, in an adults-only building separate from the mall.  Second largest number of slot machines would be 800 at Ocean Downs racetrack near [...]

End Of The Daily Newspaper Era?

The Detroit Free Press will become the first major metro daily newspaper in the U.S. to reduce home delivery from seven-days-a-week to three days.
The Free Press and the Detroit News will cut back home delivery to only the three most lucrative days of the week: Thursday, Friday and Sunday. The historic change will take [...]