Paying police misconduct claims?

BPD has cost tens of millions in lawsuits over the last decade or so. Also tons goes to prosecutors trying all those cases.

Honestly though the city should be improving based on how much they collect in taxes. All these houses getting renovated have drastically increased property tax revenue in the city but, as has been pointed out, the city has not figured out how to collect trash, charge for water or maintain roads.

>west across Cold Spring

What a tragedy, a driver may have to drive literally one more minute from the water tower to 40th St in order for everyone to have a public park.

>or north up Roland

Why would you travel north on Roland to enter Hoes Heights? That doesn't make any sense. You take 40th to Evans Chapel and go north from there.

>How is it lame? The residents advocated for the road to stay open, and so it did.

The residents are lame. Lame residents live in that neighborhood. They indicated that by sacrificing a park because it would make a TINY inconvenience to their lives. They confirmed it by wokewashing the preference.

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False. The majority of residents in the surrounding neighborhoods voted for a park. We took a vote to close the roads and reviewed multiple plans for the park. A vocal minority of old people who didnt understand how to access a web page then put up a stink, said they were disenfranchised (there were signs everywhere saying how to vote online and at the park itself), called the process racist, got the mayor's ear and he reopened the road.

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some mishandled areas it seems their Money goes to:

Paying over-reported and unmonitored OT to City Cops and some rotten apples (not all But it’s rampant)

Over compensation for revolving door of some misfits running the city

Charming isn’t it?

Agree it is not going to city services, maintenance and general cleanliness and upkeep. And they don’t pay contracts nor contractors for services they sign contracts for so they are tangled up in litigious cycles.the list goes on of what they should do but the Mayor is far behind. maybe he should stay off TV and all the public PR events and get to work.

I wonder the same.. they don’t seem to go to schools or infrastructure

I argue that the ones on 83 create more danger because people freak out and SLAM on their brakes to well below the speed limit.

Don’t disagree at all. I keep asking when we will get a refund for all the tax $ they collect for the services they don’t provide. Can’t seem to get an answer

Up in flames

I mean it's always felt that way, but the last couple of years have been total highway robbery.

Pay more, receive less. Learn to love it I guess?

How is it lame? The residents advocated for the road to stay open, and so it did.

If there was a "real park" and one was traveling west across Cold Spring or north up Roland, there would be no easy access to the community.

And so what that there wasn't a road there when Grandison Hoe owned it?

“The mayor made the decision himself, on the basis of equity to the Hoes Heights community, which uses this road fully and regularly, and I think that’s a good thing that everybody should embrace moving forward,” said Destry Jarvis, a member of the Roland Park Presbyterian Church’s Racial Justice Task Force, during a meeting of the Roland Park Civic League on Wednesday.

A conservationist, parks advocate and co-author of “National Parks Forever,” Jarvis has followed the Roland Water Tower planning process closely. Now that the roadway will stay, he said, plans are in the works to name it after Grandison Hoe, a freed slave for whom Hoes Heights is named.

So Destry Jarvis is a conservationist, parks advocate and co-authored a book “National Parks Forever” and is advocating instead to keep the road in place and not make it a park? I’m lost.

Are you against others drinking, or are you fine being around others who do in a bar-type setting? And what type of music lover are you?

Off the top of my head, there's some decent music venues, Ottobar being my preferred and could be a good fit. It has lots of shows and events that I think could be of interest to an alt music lover.

I haven't been there, but I've heard about No Land Beyond, which may be somewhat what you're looking for? It's a board game bar.

https://cityservices.baltimorecity.gov/resources/FY23_SOTA_final.pdf

The Marilyn Mosby Criminal Defense Fund.

Loved being called racist in the opposition newsletter because I donated money to build a park to make hoes heights better

People here generally talk to strangers, so you can usually just go to a bar sit down, grab a drink and someone will chat with you if you’re friendly looking.

Late 20s, married, we enjoy going out for food, drinks, game nights, whatever. I am in Highlandtown area as well.

Yet another suckup to drivers who want ugly neighborhoods, this time wokewashed.

Very, got a ticket

LOL true enough, just saying it’s dumb that’s all

Lame. God forbid we make the neighborhood better with a real park. Hope the old farts who are afraid to make a right turn on 41st street are happy with themselves. There wasn't even a road there when Grandison Hoe owned it...