Author Archives: Steve
Baltimore puts $10M toward Vacants to Value program – Baltimore Business Journal
Baltimore will put $10 million from a national mortgage settlement toward the Vacants to Value program aimed at bringing more families to the city. via Baltimore puts $10M toward Vacants to Value program – Baltimore Business Journal. This is good … Continue reading
BBC News – Voyager probe ‘leaves Solar System’
Well, this is pretty cool: The Voyager-1 spacecraft has become the first manmade object to leave the Solar System. Scientists say the probe’s instruments indicate it has moved beyond the bubble of hot gas from our Sun and is now … Continue reading
There’s Only One Kind of Fight
Back in the 70s, there was a not very good movie called Buster and Billie. It was a melodramatic bit of high school fluff about a romance between the most popular boy in school and a teen slut. Jan Michael … Continue reading
Being Poor In America
Yesterday, I overheard a conversation at my favorite bar. Several people were trading stories about how people had tried to scam them for money by pretending to be homeless or needing bus fare. Typically, these anecdotes centered on how the … Continue reading