UNGER DECISION -- Sniper who shot seven Baltimore City cops in 1976 could get new trial By Alan Z. Forman

UNGER DECISION -- Sniper who shot seven Baltimore City cops in 1976 could get new trial

COURT OF APPEALS  DECISION

TOSSES OUT HIS CONVICTION

John Earl Williams fired from 3rd floor window at Lombard and Carey Sts. in West Baltimore,

killing one police officer,  wounding 6 others

CHRONICLED IN YOU CAN?T STOP MURDER

By Alan Z. Forman

The teenage sniper who shot seven cops -- killing one -- from his third floor window in a West Baltimore row home in 1976 has had his conviction overturned and will likely be getting a new trial.

Four days after a lone gunman shot and killed a Baltimore City councilman and wounded two others in a botched attempt to kill then-Mayor William Donald Schaefer, John Earl Williams telephoned the Baltimore Police Department, told a dispatcher what he was about to do, and then began shooting the city's finest near his home at the corner of Lombard and Carey Streets.

Known as The Good Friday Shooter, his rampage took place on April 16, 1976. Now well into his fifties, Williams, 18, was trying to impress a young girlfriend who had just dumped him. ......

Read the story at http://voiceofbaltimore.org/archives/10638 ...

...and check out this week's Dave Maril "Inside Pitch" column on the weekend -- http://voiceofbaltimore.org/?s=inside+pitch

Also review this week's "Need-To-Know News" -- http://voiceofbaltimore.org/archives/10595

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Alan Z. Forman - Voice of Baltimore: MENDACITY IN MARYLAND -- Tennessee Williams' 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' is model for 'Baltimore lie'

MENDACITY IN MARYLAND -- Tennessee Williams' 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' is model for 'Baltimore lie'

PRODUCTION OF CLASSIC 1955 PLAY IN CITY'S STATION NORTH DISTRICT IS METAPHOR FOR SOCIAL CHANGE  http://voiceofbaltimore.org/archives/1183

By Alan Z. Forman

Baltimore was a divided segregated city when Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" debuted on Broadway and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955.

Blacks could not eat at public lunch counters in Charm City (and elsewhere in America) and didn't venture into upscale Guilford or even lowly Hampden. Residents of Polish descent confined themselves to Highlandtown and Canton; Jews were not allowed in Roland Park. Italians lived in Little Italy.

People of color didn't mix with whites except to work for them.  ............

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So well in fact that audiences viewing Williams’ play at the Load of Fun Theater in the old North Avenue Market last weekend in the city’s Station North Arts and Entertainment District barely noticed, if at all, that the cast was racially mixed, that the parents of two white brothers were portrayed by black actors, that the patriarch of an upscale Southern family in the segregated 1950s was played by an African-American Baltimorean.

Percy W. Thomas, dean for external programs at Sojourner-Douglass College and artistic director of Heralds of Hope Theater, which produced the play — advertised as “a color-blind production of the Pulitzer Prize winning tale” — in concert with the Theatrical Mining Company, nearly stole the show as Big Daddy Pollitt, Williams’ doomed patriarch of a wealthy Mississippi Delta family who is dying of colon cancer but doesn’t know it because he’s been lied to by everyone around him.

Kicked in the ass, as it were, under the guise of being kind.

READ THE VOICE OF BALTIMORE STORY @ http://voiceofbaltimore.org/archives/1183

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Ehrlich names Mary Kane to ticket as Lt. Governor

Maryland gubernatorial candidate Bob Ehrlich announces his running mate on Facebook and YouTube

At 10:47 a post on Facebook announced”

Meet Bob Ehrlich and Mary Kane on July 1st

June 30, 2010 at 10:47pm

Please join us on July 1st (This Thursday) at 1:30pm as Bob Ehrlich introduces the next Lt. Governor at Blueford Drew Jemison STEM Academy, at 1400 E. Biddle Street, Baltimore, 21213

And then on YouTube:

Bob Ehrlich Announces Lieutenant Governor Pick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOMvtQZ8qNk



For more information, read http://tinyurl.com/27ks2a7 Al Forman on Investigative Voice
RUNNING MATE — Ehrlich names Mary Kane to ticket as Lt. Governor


http://investigativevoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4694:running-mate-ehrlich-names-mary-kane-to-ticket-as-lt-governor&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=44

Investigative Voice

RUNNING MATE — Ehrlich names Mary Kane to ticket as Lt. Governor

Wednesday, 30 June 2010 22:16

Former Md. Sect. of State Mary Kane was named tonight to be Bob Ehrlich's running mate for lieutenant governor.

ANNOUNCEMENT MADE ON FACEBOOK PAGE
EARLY WEDNESDAY EVENING VIA YOUTUBE

By Alan Z. Forman In line with predictions made by Investigative Voice nearly three months ago, Bob Ehrlich tonight named former Maryland Secretary of State Mary D. Kane to be his running mate as he attempts to unseat the governor who unseated him in 2006.

The announcement was made just hours ago on Ehrlich's FaceBook page.

Kane, 48, is the first Republican woman to serve as Maryland's secretary of state. The native of Wilmington, Del. is a graduate of Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Md. who was admitted to the Maryland bar in 2001.

Investigative Voice first identified her in early April as the front-runner for the Number 2 spot on Ehrlich's ticket as lieutenant governor just two days after he threw his own hat in the ring to run against his gubernatorial adversary, current Gov. Martin O'Malley, who defeated him in his 2006 bid for a second term in Annapolis.


In making the much-anticipated announcement, Ehrlich said — in a video posted on YouTube — that he had "found that Maryland partner" to help him "turn Annapolis around...


"That partner is Mary Kane."

Read Mr. Forman's excellent analysis here: http://tinyurl.com/27ks2a7

http://investigativevoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4694:running-mate-ehrlich-names-mary-kane-to-ticket-as-lt-governor&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=44


20100630 sdosm Meet Bob Ehrlich and Mary Kane on July 1st

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Investigative Voice SUNDAY OPINION: COMMISSIONER CENSURES QUARTERBACK - Takes bold step toward ‘a higher standard’

GOOD FOR GOODELL — I.V. Editorial Comment

Investigative Voice SUNDAY OPINION: COMMISSIONER CENSURES QUARTERBACK - Takes bold step toward ‘a higher standard’

By —Alan Z. Forman Sunday, 25 April 2010

ROLE MODELS BY DEFAULT

Like it or not, celebrities are role models. Fans identify with them, teenagers emulate them. Children long to grow up to be like them. They are praised, loved, envied, glorified. Virtually everyone wants to trade places with them and to be their friend. They can associate with thugs, shoot themselves in the foot; torture dogs, cheat on their spouses, abuse their mates. Grammy winners run back to them, fans forgive them, franchises re-hire them. For some, they can do no wrong. Some of them can even get away with allegedly raping their dates.

Not so this week.

National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell has made what will no doubt be considered by many fans to be a highly unpopular move: suspending two-time Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger for six games, at a cost to the star player of more than $2.8 million in salary. After all…

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Read the entire commentary by Mr. Forman here: http://www.investigativevoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3823:editorial&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=44

20100425 sdosm Good For Goodell IV Editorial Comment

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