Mix in elected officials who are either looking up or away and you get today’s Baltimore.
I wish I knew the solution but the reality is only we can fix this with cooperation amount residents and holding our elected leaders accountable or voting them out.
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That’s my summary of what’s wrong with Baltimore: Unaccountability. Combine that with a commuter employee base of non-city residents and you get a tragic combination of Apathy and Unaccountability.
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Yesterday, there was a funny tweet meme about politicians just running on making city services work better.
I would contribute money to a politician who said “we’re going to fix DPW, DoT, Rec & Parks” or “Let’s use 311 like it was designed and keep city agencies accountable”
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99% of my issues with Baltimore are quality of life. Right now, you can’t get a city agency to do much.
Soccer fields? Overgrown because city vendors.
Crosswalks? If they acknowledge call then say won’t have paint for months.
Schools? (Place your BCPS story here)
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It was like he woke up, apologized, said he was having a bad day and ran off. He was clearly on something.
It was so weird.
The police did show up and asked if I was hurt. I said “It hurt but I don’t think I’m hurt”
Our city is really at an odd cross roads.
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While pumping gas, a pan handler at the intersection started walking towards me. I said hello waiting for the ask. Instead, he lunged at me and grabbed my upper right arm and was pulling me and squeezing as hard as he could. I yelled “hey” loudly over and over.
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I was randomly attacked at a gas station in Mt Washington/Roland Park on Friday. I’ve been leery to tell anyone because the homicide/violence rate is so high.
At the same time, I think not being murdered or shot is a pretty low bar to be happy with Baltimore.
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@bemm @BmoreDoc I see “Equity Scientist” w 16k followers but it just keeps loading. I thought it was a glitch. Why did he delete?
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@bemm @bmoredoc
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@jessgartner I like the idea of withholding city taxes in Escrow if they’re not doing their job.
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