We’re still accepting poems, until the jury renders a verdict. Best haiku, sonnet or limerick gets a $25 gift card. Whether your poem is naughty or nice, we’re hoping you’ll gift us with it soon!
Here are a few of the entries, including these two haiku by “Aaron.”
jury wrangles long
mayor’s peers sit in judgement
trial by the press
Low cost crimes alleged
Millions spent to uncover
Party politics
This one is from “Virginia”
For gifties, our Mayor likes a card -
A present that’s easy, not hard.
Whether she got them mixed,
Or her relationships fixed,
Now forever her record is scarred.
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by MELODY SIMMONS
Entering its third week today, the theft trial of Mayor Sheila Dixon seems at times to be more soap opera than legal proceeding.
As the jury of nine women and three men begin a sixth day of deliberations on the five remaining counts (of which Dixon can only be found guilty of three) at 9 a.m. today, The Brew offers some highlights from inside and outside of Courtroom 234.
– For instance, while jurors are receiving $50-per-day stipends, prosecutor Robert Rohrbaugh and his team of five attorneys and investigators showed up in court for 10 hours on Wednesday gratis. The state was under a mandatory furlough day because of budget cuts.
— Mayor Dixon, her face often showing signs of strain at the lengthy deliberation, sounded a lighter note on Wednesday while debating Thanksgiving stuffing ingredients with some of her faithful supporters: oysters or no oysters?
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by MARK REUTTER
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is again threatening to sue environmental regulators and Severstal North America if action is not taken against illegal discharges of cancer-causing benzene and other pollutants into Baltimore harbor.
Jon A. Mueller, CBF’s director of litigation, criticized state and federal agencies for not insisting that immediate measures be taken to stop the flow of toxic chemicals from the Sparrows Point steel mill. Mueller was responding to Severstal’s claim, reported last week in the Brew, that it was not responsible for investigating or cleaning up so-called “historical contamination” from the plant.
“If the state and federal government fail to act in a timely way,” Mueller said, “we will be forced to take action.”
((Listen to Mark discuss our Sparrows Point coverage at 9 am tomorrow ( Tuesday) on Sheilah Kast’s Maryland Morning show, on WYPR FM.))
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by DEBORAH RUDACILLE
On October 26, 2009 city police responded to a call in the 1500 block of Montpelier Street in Northeast Baltimore to find a male-bodied person dressed in women’s clothes bleeding from the left side of his body. Darren Green, 24, died shortly afterwards at Johns Hopkins Hospital from multiple stab wounds. Green was one of the transgendered victims of violent crime memorialized at City Hall on November 20th, the International Transgender Day of Remembrance, by a group of activists, friends and city and state officials.
It was a poignant moment for Kalima Young, research director of Connect to Protect: Baltimore, an advocacy group: “I’m sorry that we have to be here, but so proud that the city views it as important.”
(Baltimore had an even more recent reminder of the violent toll taken by hate based on sexual orientation: a Baltimore Sun story on Friday revealed that Glen H. Footman, the Mount Vernon man shot in 2008 shortly after being seen walking on the street hand-in-hand with his partner, died earlier this month. A witness to the shooting, still under investigation as a hate crime, was overheard saying “I’m going to kill me a gay tonite.”) Read the rest of this entry »
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