Google Bike Map route from Poly to Lake Montebello.
by FERN SHEN
Baltimore bicyclists are checking out a new tool this week, Google’s long awaited bike map application, unveiled yesterday in Washington.
The idea: you plug in a starting point and a destination and the software gives you the bike-friendliest route. This feature is in beta mode and Google asks users to report errors or suggest changes.
But for now, right out of the box, how good is it in Baltimore?
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Sheila Dixon's mink coat, from developer Ronald Lipscomb. (Photo by Doug Donovan)
by DOUG DONOVAN
Political sex scandals always produce items that collectors would surely love to obtain. For President Clinton, it was Monica Lewinsky’s blue dress (after the Smithsonian turned it down.) For Sen. Larry Craig, it was the bathroom stall door. For former N.Y. Gov. Eliot Spitzer, it was the receipt for Room 871 at the Mayflower Hotel, booked under the name “George Fox.”
To that distinguished list, add the two fur coats that helped take Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon down, albeit in high style.
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by R. DARRYL FOXWORTH
Last week, Towson University professor Allen Zaruba was dismissed from the school after characterizing himself as a “nigger on the corporate plantation” during classroom discussion.
His firing stirred intense debate about whether the use of the word – self-referentially, by a white man in an academic setting – was right. But all the attention on the word Zaruba used is distracting attention from his only meaningful offense: the glib analogy he was making.
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by GERALD NEILY
Shrinking highway revenue and cost overruns have accomplished what the Maryland Department of Transportation has been unable to do, until now, on its own. It’s made them plan smarter.
They’ve pared the I-95 express lane project back by $500 million to $900 million so they can spend the money to fix the existing deteriorated infrastructure.
Who knew?
The poultry industry uses chicken feed containing arsenic. Yum.
Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler, Delegate Tom Hucker (D-Montgomery County) and other lawmakers think this is not such a great idea and have introduced a bill to ban the practice in Maryland.
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