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Many Baltimore citizens enjoy a long jog early each morning. I am not one of them. But today I jogged nearly four miles to work, and I am quite upset about it, as was my boss when I walked in the door and told him I needed to take my break. As my bicycle is temporarily out of service, I was forced to join the thousands of people who rely on public transit to get to work on time.

Mosby, a first-term councilman representing some of Baltimore's poorest neighborhoods, enter the race for mayor?

Richard Black, an accountant, filed this week to run as a Democrat. Collins Otonna, an independent, also filed to run this week.

It bothers me that the only government agency I've found in the city of Baltimore with a walk-in application process is the Baltimore Police Department, where you take the first step toward your new career by walking into the Police Recruitment Unit on Tuesdays at 12:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. and sitting down for a simple multiple choice test (Yes, I've taken it). For any other position as a city employee, including careers as a crossing guard, a tree trimmer, a pipe fitter or in parks and

Connor Meek, the 27-year-old whose opinion piece in the Baltimore Sun about police stations being closed led to policy reversal and heavy press coverage, has filed to run for mayor.

Connor Meek's account of closed district stations should help make police more responsive

Mayor Rawlings-Blake reacts decisively, if belatedly, to the crime surge by firing the police commissioner; she needs to recognize that her leadership is at issue too.

Baltimore police commanders on Tuesday ordered all city police stations to stay open around the clock after the story of a man who said he was robbed of his bicycle and found the nearest station closed drew concerns from community leaders and elected officials.

Baltimore police commanders on Tuesday ordered all city police stations to stay open around the clock after the story of a man who said he was robbed of his bicycle and found the nearest station closed drew concerns from community leaders and elected officials.

On June 15th I was mugged for the first time in my life, for a bicycle with about zero resale value and shoddy brakes. I was accosted by a group of about 15 youths on the Gwynns Falls Trail and escaped unscathed, minus a bicycle. Traumatic, yes. But it could have been worse. Little did I know that it was only the beginning of my ordeal; the police were responsible for the rest.