> If it's truly that effective it should be a nationwide model

I don't think this follows at all. Whether/how well it would work outside of dense urban neighborhoods seems to be a totally separate (and possibly more difficult) question than whether/how well it works here.

Yeah, this is appalling and hopefully the SC reverses it. All respect to the Lee family, but I have no idea how one would be able to disentangle their certainty of Syed's guilt vs. cope.

and tbc, I don't mean 'cope' to belittle them, it's just that they were likely assured from everybody on the state's side that Syed killed their daughter, and most people in those circumstances aren't going to spend much time second-guessing it.

Fair enough, I've never really used the back entrance other than walking with friends who were going out to smoke as I was going to the bathroom.

All of the color routes are generally reliable. You'll still want to plan for some delays/etc. especially at first until you figure our your office's tolerance for transit commutes.

But also: look at the JHU shuttle and Collegetown routes? Not sure where you are in Upper Fells, but getting a JHU shuttle from the hospital up to Charles Village and catching a Green or Collegetown bus from 33rd might be a better option.

I don't get a vote, but I think having the accessible entrance be in the back is fine if it's well-marked/lit/etc. at a place like MRT. A wheelchair lift on the front steps would probably take up most of the stair width and might impact fire code capacity.

I had no idea it was ever up for sale, but this is excellent news. Been ages since I've hung out with Nick but miss seeing him around!

Charles probably has the least dead space of any of the streets between Station North and Mt. Vernon, but generally speaking, walking between the two neighborhoods is safe enough that I don't see the need to prioritize any particular route. Any of the N/S streets should be fine.

> The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, which was dedicated in 1903 and doused in red paint by protesters in 2017, depicts the angel Glory holding a dying Confederate soldier clenching an unfurled Confederate flag. The flag was sawed off and a small hole was drilled in the soldier’s knee.

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The court and reporter are in MD, the defendant lives in Florida. How urgently this is or isn't being treated likely isn't something the Banner is privy to.

Well first, wishing there were a way to revoke their broadcast licenses given that they're a public resource being so maliciously used.

> If it passes and a recall election occurs at some point, then the people got exactly what they wanted.

Not necessarily, you can look at CA's rules, for instance--a recall petition only requires 12% of the voters in the prior election to trigger the recall.

> It seems to me that the criticism of these ballot measures is a veiled admittance that the electorate is inherently dumb and will vote against their own self interest

Not necessarily, you can look at CA's Chesa Boudin recall election, for instance, where the appointee who took his place (and won the special election) simply neglected to disclose that she'd earned 6 figures working as a consultant working on the recall campaign itself, and promptly fired everybody involved in addressing wrongful convictions and police misconduct. But hey, on the bright side, crime rates haven't come down either, so who's to say this isn't democracy in action?

Sure, but there's also a reason why restaurants close so frequently and breweries don't, and Brew House 16 was firmly on the wrong side of that line.

Pedestrian safety in all likelihood.

> Or. I just know how math works.

Discarding over 95% of your data because it doesn't fit your claim is not, typically, how math works.

There wouldn't be a shortage of construction workers if they wanted to hire unionized employees, or there weren't a crackdown on immigration, or there hadn't been a collapse in the construction industry between 2008 and oh, about 2021.

> Baltimore's poverty issues do not come from a lack of "jobs"

This is such a colossal straw man given that the situation in the labor market described in this article is at most two years old.

> They come from a basic skills gap.

To the extent this is true, it's best exemplified by this article quoting McKinsey about vaporware labor needs beyond the near future.

> We don't need extremes to solve this problem.

What you called for is "reforming them to where they're virtually unrecognizable from who they are now." Who's the loudest 'reform' voice that you think embraces anything resembling this view?

> but rather reforming them to where they're virtually unrecognizable from who they are now. Even if you're ideologically lazy with all the "ACAB" nonsense,

It would be far less work just to internally read ACAB as 'all cops are badly in need of reform' than to try to parse a meaningful ideological difference between your stated position and the one you're trying to dunk on.

The parking pressures are from basic geometry--most cars are longer than rowhouses are wide. The only way street parking can ever work in a neighborhood like Hampden is if there are enough people who don't own cars.

Given that 85% support the parklets, my first question would actually be whether the number of supporters + the number of people with concerns exceeds 100% of respondents. I'd bet so!

> Do they live around Pratt?

No, but also most of them are doing deliveries so even if the garage on Gay had free <30 minute parking, chances are they wouldn't/couldn't.

> Under the proposed rate, the city is actually losing money in some places where parking revenue averages out at $5.40 per day, Davis said.

Yes, love too compare the daily cost per "place" to a annualized cost per square foot. Very persuasive.

Huh. I've never gotten that kind of scrutiny, and pre-pandemic the reason I'd just call the 1-2 bags I'd bring in 'trash' was that the rule on debris was so arbitrary/unpredictable. And any time I've done something that would generate more than 1-2 small bin liners, I'd just call a hauler. I do wish there were some clear rule/fee structure for DIYer residents though.

> Is something off with the reporting?

Yes. The reporting says they got data on 2000 students from 23 schools, which is obviously incomplete.

But also apparently the 8th grade proficiency level in 2021 was 6.5% statewide, so the actual difference in the city numbers probably isn't bigger than you'd expect based on pre-pandemic years.

Maybe worth pointing this out for context: the state's press release about the 2022 data:

> In mathematics, students saw gains in nearly all grades as compared to the prior year’s assessment administered in Early Fall 2021. However, student outcomes have not returned to pre-pandemic levels. In middle school, 17.6% of sixth grade students were proficient in math and just 6.5% of students who took the grade 8 assessment were proficient. The percent of students proficient in Algebra I was 14.5%, below pre-pandemic results of 27% proficient in 2019.

But also, to echo myself, if anybody wants to take Sinclair's numbers seriously, they should be expected to explain why 2000 students from 23 schools is in any way representative of those schools' entire student bodies.