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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Red Maryland - Richard E. Vatz: The Jessamy-Bernstein Debate: Substance to Bernstein; Style to Bernstein; Penalty Points Against Jessamy

FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 2010

The Jessamy-Bernstein Debate: Substance to Bernstein; Style to Bernstein; Penalty Points Against Jessamy – Likely Primary Election Winner: Jessamy

--Richard E. Vatz http://redmaryland.blogspot.com/2010/08/jessamy-bernstein-debate-substance-to.html

The August 12 debate between Patricia Jessamy and Gregg Bernstein on WYPR’s “Midday with Dan Rodricks” tells us a lot about political debates, and it also tells us a lot about the principals and their principles in the current race for City State’s Attorney in the Democratic primary.

When candidates have an unfriendly debate filled with unpleasant, personal attacks, the debate tends to be reported as generally nasty, with the implication being that “there is no love lost between these two,” or, in this case, described as their “frequently trading barbs,” in an otherwise excellent analysis in The Baltimore Sun.

The fact is that sometimes there is a major difference in the candidates in this regard. Yesterday’s ugly debate was one-sidedly nasty, even though both candidates were disdainful of the other... http://redmaryland.blogspot.com/2010/08/jessamy-bernstein-debate-substance-to.html

Red Maryland - Richard E. Vatz: The Jessamy-Bernstein Debate: Substance to Bernstein; Style to Bernstein; Penalty Points Against Jessamy – – Likely Primary Election Winner: Jessamy

http://redmaryland.blogspot.com/2010/08/jessamy-bernstein-debate-substance-to.html

LABELS: BALTIMORE CRIME, BLOG RED MARYLAND, ELECTIONS 2010, PEOPLE VATZ DR RICHARD

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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Investigative Voice Stephen Janis: WHAT FUTURE BALTIMORE? — Of pools, politics and pensions

WHAT FUTURE BALTIMORE? — Of pools, politics and pensions

Wednesday, 11 August 2010 23:35

SWIMMING IN THE CITY OF DISCONTENT

By Stephen Janis

Tell me I’m dreaming, but is it true the city that forked over $400 million to fund retirement payments and health benefits for city employees closed pools in early August during one of the hottest summers on record to save roughly $400,000 to $600,000?

Is it true?

I don’t know if I’m getting this right but did Baltimore City Council President Jack Young have to call a special session of the City Council and hold a news conference to push the Rawlings-Blake Administration to pay attention to an issue that should have been at the top of their agenda?

Did it really take the private sector's donating the money to keep our children cool in a city where taxpayer-funded take-home cars zoom out of state every night at the cost of millions of dollars every year?

Did I miss a meeting where it was decided that borrowing $300 million to build a downtown hotel that has yet to make money was a worthwhile use of taxpayer funds, but drawing down $400,000 from the rainy-day fund to improve the quality of life for the people who actually live here was not worth the risk to the city's credit rating?... http://www.investigativevoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5505:what-future-baltimore-of-pools-politics-and-pension&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=44

Investigative Voice Stephen Janis: WHAT FUTURE BALTIMORE? — Of pools, politics and pensions

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Friday, May 15, 2009

Sara Michael: MEDIA MAY 8 2009 Stephen Janis The Voice of Baltimore

After his newspaper shut down, investigative reporter Stephen Janis started his own news website.

Sara Michael http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/the_voice_of_baltimore.php

Conversations with Stephen Janis are often interrupted by his cellphone. The former investigative reporter at the Baltimore Examiner newspaper never stops taking calls and meeting sources, and not even the newspaper's folding in February slowed him down. Having covered stories in Baltimore City like the murders of prostitutes and the arrest of a seven-year-old for sitting on a dirt bike, Janis can't stop now.

Perhaps he's become completely mired in the ills of the city; perhaps he is fully unemployable in any other field. But once laid off from the newspaper, he took his leads, his sources, and his obsession with unearthing the real story, and launched his own online news organization, Investigative Voice. After just two months, the website has broken stories that were picked up by the local television media.

Janis, a former contributing writer for the city's alternative weekly and a former record producer, was part of the original crew that launched the Baltimore Examiner, a free tabloid daily, in April 2006. The Examiner's short stories (most of them around 500 words) and sensational headlines (think "Bludgeoned!" and "Suburban Shocker") competed with the legacy Baltimore Sun newspaper, itself now a struggling rag. Janis covered stories others wouldn't touch, and made officials in the city government pay attention, picking up fans and enemies along the way. His stories on a city parking agent writing fake tickets led to an inspector general investigation, and his series on the mysterious death of activist and prominent businessman Robert Lee Clay prompted the FBI to reopen the case.

Even before the Baltimore Examiner folded on Feb. 15, Janis was planning Investigative Voice, and the site went live nine days after the last paper was printed. While the other laid-off reporters, including me, dusted off our résumés, my former colleague Janis was still meeting with sources. In the following interview, which has been edited for clarity, Janis talks about how he wrestles with having to play the competing roles of a businessman concerned with driving hits to the site and an investigative reporter obsessed with keeping tabs on crime and City Hall… http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/the_voice_of_baltimore.php

20090508 MEDIA Stephen Janis The Voice of Baltimore

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