The Baltimore Sun reports that Baltimore Mayor Dixon will resign on February 4, 2010. Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon will resign next month, part of a plea deal reached Wednesday that brings a years-long corruption investigation to a close with a guilty plea in a perjury case in addition to last month’s jury conviction on an […]
Category: Maryland
Sun says Maryland needs more transparency
The Baltimore Sun endorses measures to promote transparency in government in this editorial today. Publish more campaign finance information. No sense of who wields influence in Annapolis (or in virtually any capital) is complete without seeing where politicians get the money that funds their campaigns. That information has been online in Maryland for years. But […]
Post calls for Baltimore Mayor Dixon to resign
This editorial urges Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon to resign after her conviction on one count. Much has been made of the penny ante nature of the crime, of the overzealousness of the state prosecutor or of the good things she has done as mayor. None of that matters. Ms. Dixon violated the public trust. She […]