AltWeeklies Wire
Using Restorative Justice Techniques to Deal with Crime in Baltimorenew
The Community Conferencing Center is a Baltimore organization that uses conferencing, a process similar to mediation--but with certain key differences--to resolve disputes.
Baltimore City Paper |
Erin Sullivan |
06-02-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Baltimore Bookstore Works to Create a Free Schoolnew
The latest endeavor for Red Emma's, a Baltimore bookstore and activist hive, is building a free school to introduce an alternative to the usual institutional school tuition system.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
06-02-2009 |
Education
Conference Brings Together People Working Toward Redefining the Urban Spacenew
For activists who long struggled to fight developers and speculators, the recent halt in economic activity has been an opportunity to rethink what the city means and can become, and this weekend's radical conference in Baltimore, The City From Below, addresses those concerns.
Baltimore City Paper |
Martin L. Johnson |
03-31-2009 |
Housing & Development
A Baltimore Businessman Wants to Start the Electric Revolutionnew
In China, where gasoline scooters have been banned in some major cities, electric scooters have become a popular way of providing cheap worker transportation without the pollution. It's an idea Ray Carrier is hoping will take hold here, and last week he opened the doors of his electric scooter shop in Baltimore.
Baltimore City Paper |
Christopher Myers |
03-31-2009 |
Transportation
Tags: electric scooters, Ray Carrier
State Budget Cuts Could Change Baltimore's Cultural Landscape Forevernew
Development directors at orchestras, museums, and theaters across Baltimore are worried that in a year of tough choices, Maryland may be making a $6 million choice it can never take back.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
03-31-2009 |
Economy
Considering a Radical Education Strategy's Potential in Baltimorenew
The model of the Harlem Children's Zone represents a growing social scientific consensus on the nature and seeming perpetuity of urban poverty. The "Zone" is a 97-block area in Harlem that has been turned into a European-style social democracy, a cradle-to-college conveyor belt to the American middle-class for Harlem kids.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Corbin |
01-27-2009 |
Education
With Domestic Violence on the Rise, Baltimore Finds New Ways to Help its Victimsnew
This year, a new Family Crimes Unit was created in the Baltimore Police Department to investigate domestic-violence cases. And Mercy Medical Center has new technology that is helping to document abuse. Both aim to help women (and men) get out of abusive relationships before they become deadly. It's not an easy goal to meet.
Baltimore City Paper |
Anna Ditkoff |
01-13-2009 |
Crime & Justice
How I Spent Election Night in a Baltimore Jailnew
Why was I, a 42-year-old husband and father of two young daughters, a senior employee of Johns Hopkins, a freelance journalist, and a law-abiding, civic-minded guy, sitting in my piss-soaked underwear in the back of a paddy wagon outside the Northern District police station?
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael M. Hughes |
11-14-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Inside The Johns Hopkins Psilocybin Studiesnew
The study's conclusion -- that psychedelic drugs offer the potential for profound, transformative, and long-lasting positive changes in properly prepared individuals -- may herald a revival in the study of altered states of consciousness.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael M. Hughes |
10-14-2008 |
Drugs
A Foreclosure Shell Game in Baltimorenew
Seven neighbors, 11 foreclosures, and more than a million dollars' profit in one neighborhood.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
10-07-2008 |
Economy
Blogs Tell the Story Behind Baltimore Sun Buyouts and Changesnew
Behind the scenes, journalists at the Sun and other papers owned by the Tribune Co. have launched an angry (if only online) revolt against staff layoffs, management decisions, and what they see as a wholesale dismantling of the Chicago-based company's newspapers.
Baltimore City Paper |
Martin L. Johnson |
09-09-2008 |
Media
Two Media Companies Bet on Niche Papers as Print Journalism's Futurenew
In spite of the uncertain economy and the more certain decline in newspaper readership, two new publications, the monthly Exhibit A and the weekday daily b launched in Baltimore.
Baltimore City Paper |
Martin L. Johnson |
08-26-2008 |
Media
Homeless Attacked in Baltimorenew
In many of the violent run-ins the homeless have had on the street, the criminals have sought out single pedestrians--particularly those who are elderly, disabled, or just look like an easy catch.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jay Sandler |
08-19-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Bob Beaumont Recalls His Past Creating and Selling Electric Carsnew
In 1974 the CitiCar -- an electric car modeled on an golf cart -- began rolling out of the factory, and Beaumont's Sebring Vanguard Motors became the sixth-largest car manufacturer in the country.
Baltimore City Paper |
Chris Landers |
08-12-2008 |
Transportation
Ronald Hinton May Have Confessed to Rape and Murder, but Did He Really Do It?new
The confession of Hinton, who was convicted of raping a murdering a child, outweighed indications that he might not have done it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Van Smith |
08-05-2008 |
Crime & Justice
