[sionnsar]

Why do we keep losing our cities?

Liberal infestations?

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Anything run by Democrats for long is run into the ground. You think they wasted Baltimore, see what happens to the rest of the country no that they are in charge.

[Timeout]

<<< ...it wasn’t married to a single industry that got absolutely gutted over the past several years. >>>

Politics. That’s the only industry I can think to tie to the city. Is there anything else there?

[Paladin2]

"Why do we keep losing our cities?"

Taxes are too low and gov't is too small?

[Caramelgal]

Ping for later.

[Vision]

While Baltimore is a mess, downtown is not sad if you stay out of the bad areas. The food options are fun; but then I try to leave once it gets dark.

[IrishPennant]

One answer and one answer only; The failed “War On Poverty.” The only war we have not, nor could ever win. Pure impossibility.

[Jeff Chandler]

the high level of crime in our neighborhood. Over the last several years, many of our cars have been broken into resulting in very expensive repairs, our employees have been robbed at gun point, drug needles and used condoms have been left on our front stoop, and psychotic homeless people have menaced our employees and threatened to kill them. We have voiced our frustrations to the local community leaders and police, but the environment has only worsened. The recent local beatings by roving teenagers during the day in this neighborhood, the raucous club in the basement of the Belvedere, and other gang violence throughout the city

Sounds like Obama voters, all right.

[Toespi]

Baltimore is another city being led by a mayor with a bias, unfortunately, African-Americans mayor have tunnel vision towards their own race and create their agendas based on racism.

[fleagle]

Democrats.

[SamAdams76]

Why do we keep losing our cities?

The answer is simple. The limousine liberals impose their socialist agenda in the city such as rent control, public housing and welfare programs and then they flee to the inner suburbs where they surround themselves with gated communities, Whole Foods supermarkets and Starbucks outlets, all the while ensuring that section 8 housing, prisons and check cashing outlets never get built in their neighborhood.

Meanwhile, the conservatives get the hell away from everybody so they move out to the exurbs where they surround themselves with acres of forest, Outback restaurants and big-box stores where they can buy everything they need without having to go near the city.

[stylecouncilor]

What do you expect from the city that spawned Dawn Davenport?!

[bobby.223]

“no reason the city needed to be that bad”. really? I can think of quite a few reasons the city couldn’t escape it... TCBE’s and many of ‘em.

[Freee-dame]

If it weren’t for the tremendous infusion of federal dollars into Maryland, it would probably rank near the bottom of states economically. Its proximity to DC means lots of federal workers and federal contract workers. The Gov, who was the mayor of the failed city of Baltimore, now has 4 BILLION stimulous dollars to dole out to his favored ones. It’s a state of limousine liberals and government dependants.

[Venturer]

Nancy Pelosi’s daddy Thomas D’Alesandro didnt help, Her brother Thomas D’Alesandro III was worse. Martin O Mally ,better known as M.O.M. sucked and then along came Sheila Dixon.

When is her trial to start anyway?

[Travis McGee]

ping.
What is conspicuously absent from discussion in this article?

Hmmmm.....lemmee think....

[surely_you_jest]

Baltimore - Zimbabwe on the Chesapeake.

[Ditter]

I have only been to Baltimore once and that was for a week 50 years ago. It didn’t look very good to me then, I’d hate to think how it must look now.

[The Great RJ]

Too bad...when I first went to Baltimore in 1976 the Convention Center was being patrolled by two man police teams with dogs and leaving you hotel was a scary experience. When I came back in the mid 1980s the Inner Harbor area was a show place although just outside that area was still a combat zone. Apparently the hoodlums have again taken over.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Maryland “Freak State” PING!