These Marylanders were interviewed by members of the Peirce team for the Baltimore and Beyond special section. Their comments were used anonymously so that they would feel free to be candid.
HAROLD ADAMS, president, RTKL Associates Inc.
DR. EDWARD ANDREWS, assistant superintendent of public instruction, Baltimore
DR. TIM ARMBRUSTER, president, Baltimore Community Foundation & Goldseker Foundation
GERALDINE BACHMAN, Baltimore Regional Council of Governments
WILL BAKER, director, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
CORNELIUS J. BEHAN, police chief, Baltimore County Police Department
DANIEL BERGER, The Baltimore Sun
RICK BERNDT, attorney, Gallagher, Evelius & Jones
BERNARD BERKOWITZ, University of Maryland Baltimore County
CLARENCE W. BLOUNT, D-Baltimore, majority leader, Maryland Senate
ELIZABETH BOBO, former Howard County executive
LASLO BOYD, associate vice president and assistant to the president, University of Maryland Baltimore County
DR. CHARLES CHRISTIAN, professor, University of Maryland, College Park
TOM CHMURA, Greater Baltimore Committee
MARY PAT CLARKE, president of the Baltimore City Council
CHARLES W. COLE JR., president and CEO, First Maryland Bankcorp
CLINTON R. COLEMAN, press secretary to Baltimore's Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke
ALAN S. COOPER, executive director, United Way of Central Maryland
PAT COSTAGAN, the Enterprise Foundation
ROBERT EMBRY, president, the Abell Foundation
ELIJAH ETHRIDGE, BUILD (Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development)
J. RANDALL EVANS, secretary, Maryland Department of Employment and Economic Development
HATHAWAY FEREBEE, Citizen's Planning and Housing Association
LARRY GIBSON, attorney, Shapiro & Olander
VERNON C. GRAY, chair, Howard County Council
CHICKIE GRAYSON, board chair, Citizens Planning and Housing Association
GUY HAGER, executive director, Baltimore Regional Council of Governments
RONALD J. HARTMAN, administrator and general manager, Mass Transit Administration
GEORGE B. HESS, aide to Harvey Meyerhoff
HELENA HICKS, director, policy and planning and special assistant to the secretary, Maryland Department of Human Resources
BARBARA HILL, president, the Johns Hopkins Health Plan
ROBERT HILL, director, Institute for Urban Research, Morgan State University
SAUNDERS HILLYER, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
MELDON S. HOLLIS JR., attorney, member of Baltimore school board
ANNA HOOKER, housing development consultant
WILLIAM L. JEWS, president and CEO, Dimensions Health Corp.
ROBERT KELLER, Greater Baltimore Committee
MICHAEL KELLY, dean, University of Maryland School of Law
ARNOLD KLEINER, general manager, WMAR-TV
L RONALD KREITNER, director, Maryland State Office of Planning
LAURENCE LEVITAN, state senator, Montgomery County
ROGER LYONS, president, Baltimore Urban League
J. PATRICK McCUAN, developer, Howard County
PETER MARUDAS, mayor's office
PAT MASSEY, executive director, Baltimore Housing Partnership
SALLY MICHEL, community volunteer
PARREN J. MITCHELL, president, Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense and Education Fund
DR. STEVEN MULLER, former president, the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital
REG MURPHY, chairman, The Baltimore Sun
BRENDAN W. O'MALLEY, former executive director, Maryland Port Administration
JIM PFEIFFER, Maryland Department of Economic and Employment Development
ANTERO PIETILA, The Baltimore Sun
MARION PINES, senior fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, the Johns Hopkins University
DENNIS F. RASMUSSEN, former Baltimore County executive
GARY RODWELL, executive director, BUILD
JAMES ROUSE, chairman, the Enterprise Foundation
DR. LESTER SALAMON, Institute for Policy Studies, the Johns Hopkins University.
WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, governor
HOMER S. SCHAMP, acting director, Center for Excellence in Urban Education
bTC JAY SCHLOSSBERG, director, Maryland Film Commission
KURT L. SCHMOKE, mayor of Baltimore
REV. JOSEPH A. SELLINGER, S.J., president, Loyola College
STUART O. SIMMS, Baltimore state's attorney
DR. MARTHA SMITH, president, Dundalk Community College
WALTER SONDHEIM, senior adviser, Greater Baltimore Committee
JOSEPH R. L. STERNE, editorial page editor, The Sun
ROSALIE STREETT, executive director, Friends of the Family
CARL W. STRUEVER, president, Struever Brothers, Eccles & Rouse
RICHARD H. TRAINOR, former Maryland secretary of transportation
THEODORE VENETOULIS, the Record Newspaper and Printing Co.
LARRY YOUNG, state senator, West Baltimore
CALMAN ZAMOISKI JR., president, the Zamoiski Co.
Members of The Baltimore Sun news and editorial staffs