oh wow, we're jumping straight to racial prejudice today, and then doubling down when it's noticed. Nice.

The city actually has a downward population trend. Maybe Towson should take responsibility for their own mistakes, instead of trying to find someone to blame?

Absolutely this. TU and Towson town proper have both increased considerably over the last 20 years. It’s getting more dense. It’s like Baltimore’s “Bethesda” if it had a flagship regional university. It’s gotten more urban and walkable and they added that circular system recently.

I had mutual friends with her as well from my high school that were the same year at Loyola.

I'll have to take a look at that place and I'll tell you what I think of it

Lol! Yeah I absolutely hate when people post paywalled sites when we are here to discuss things for free.

I feel that McKeldin Plaza should be joined to the mainland and no longer exist as an island.

I also think that light street is entirely too wide from key highway to Pratt and needs to be drastically narrowed.

Generally when people say that they are of the race that has traditionally had the upper hand in this country.

Thank you. Those are people that have been prioritized for many decades and it's time to level the playing field and stop playing those stupid games

Who uses the service the most and what needs to be done to improve it? Then actually fix the issues. When you do that EVERYONE benefits.

1. Black people feel as though their voices are being heard and acted on. Which in turn helps to alleviate a whole of apathy.

2. Actually acting on those concerns ultimately benefits everyone that uses public transportation regardless of race. This in turn helps more people to use the service which gets more people off the road and makes it so that whoever still needs to drive has a better experience getting where they need to go.

OK but if you look at small cities with the highest crime rate, you won't see them on the density list I linked to below. My point was that there are other (and better) reasons for these things happening other than more people in an area

Towson has also really become a small city. I grew up in Towson and went to high-school and university there. It was a sleepy little town. It has continuously grown over the last three decades. TU really needs to step up its policing of the area. You can't make Towson a destination and keep adding students and "luxury" housing and keep acting like nothing criminal/violent is going to happen.

Exactly. A black person complaining about something should be taken just as serious as something said why someone who is white.

When I ride the bus it's always mostly black and Hispanic people on there. Rarely are their white people on there.

So even if it's unintentional it's still perpetuating the idea that white people are still superior and that it's to the point where it's considered normal by most people only goes to show how deeply entrenched that idea still is no matter how subtle it may be or how good intentioned people may be.

that's fucked up. The most fucked up thing we have here is ground rent

Towson is becoming the city. The shithole is expanding and Towson is the first place to go.

Yeah walking around the water from Canton to Harbor East is a really nice walk, then if you want you can go to Federal hill and if you really want a long walk to all the way to Ft McHenry Park.

You can always catch the purple banner bus back if you don't want to walk back

Just went for the first time last week. Jagerschnitzle and spatzle were delicious. (They've also got das boot if you're into beer).

So the ethical question that everyone should ask themselves is was it worth it? I think a lot of people would say yes. Others would say that is targeted certain groups (which may or may not be true...I honestly don't know). What I do know is that people who live in cities (and I'm one of them living here right in the middle of Baltimore City) is that I want crime to be lowered. "Asking nicely" for people not to commit crimes hasn't seemed to have worked.

It could be worse. In NJ, the lien purchasers get to keep all the extra equity, its legalized theft from poor and elderly people to wealthy investors.

Sits in an account for decades

It should be going to the state's unclaimed property fund after 3 years.

the tax sale funds are first used to pay the existing liens on the property that caused the auction/sale. After that, the original owner is entitled to any remaining funds. They don't get pocketed by the city, at least not initially. The money just kind of...sit there in an account until claimed. According to the article, the combined balance is about $6 million sitting in the account at this time.

>If the funds are not collected by former owners within seven years, the city can seek a court order to access the money for other uses, officials said. But the city hasn’t done that in at least the last dozen years that Scrivener has been with the department, he said. “Money pretty much had been sitting in the account,” said Dorothy Reed, deputy chief of the Bureau of Revenue Collections.

Absolutely. We value guns and they value each other.

Ahh so it's a culture problem then?

This is good information. Thanks for posting!

You cannot compare asian cultures which are collective societies to American western individualism societies.