Homeless Shelter planned for 620 Fallsway

I don’t understand why the good folk at the Sun are surprised that the residents of Mount Vernon are giving this project a thumbs up.
Opposition to this should be expected from some business owners and political types that are well connected to the real estate community. The proximity of homeless folk inevitably effects property values, [...]

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Clark Rockefeller and his Gold

The FBI has agreed to return half of the cash and gold confiscated from short term Mount Vernon resident Clark Rockefeller.

Mr. Rockefeller attained notoriety this past summer when he allegedly kidnapped his daughter during a supervised visit in Boston and moved to Charm City to start a new life. That didn’t work out according to [...]

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Bourgeois tendencies from Mt. Vernon

Baltimore City Councilman William H. Cole IV wants to block the convenience store 7-11 from setting up shop in Mount Vernon as a 24/7 operation. He says, according to the Sun, that “A 24-hour location in that area is not going to help the community at all.” The store would be located at the corner [...]

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Lighting up the Washington Monument

Most cities celebrate the birth of the baby Jesus by lighting and decorating a tree, reminiscent of our ancient pagan past. Not Baltimore though.
Here in the greatest city in America we light a giant phallus. Yep. About equidistant on Charles Street between the The Hippo and the Baltimore Basilica the obelisk stands in mute witness [...]

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