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	<title>Comments on: City Council lets budget slide</title>
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		<title>By: Dave</title>
		<link>http://www.bthesite.com/archives/2008/06/city-council-lets-budget-slide/#comment-3616</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think YCKTR and Claude makes good points.  How does one mobilize the people though?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think YCKTR and Claude makes good points.  How does one mobilize the people though?</p>
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		<title>By: YCKTR</title>
		<link>http://www.bthesite.com/archives/2008/06/city-council-lets-budget-slide/#comment-3475</link>
		<dc:creator>YCKTR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This town has been run by crooks and hand-job artists for years...so it's not surprising that it's business as usual at city hall.

Claude your point is spot on - everyone complains year after year...and then come election time...it's the same cast of characters pissing on your leg.  But then again, the options are usually pretty limited.

And you're right, "complaining" at a grass roots level changes almost nothing.  However moblizing the people to express concern and have their voices heard almost always begins as a grassroots action...and can definitely make a difference.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This town has been run by crooks and hand-job artists for years&#8230;so it&#8217;s not surprising that it&#8217;s business as usual at city hall.</p>
<p>Claude your point is spot on - everyone complains year after year&#8230;and then come election time&#8230;it&#8217;s the same cast of characters pissing on your leg.  But then again, the options are usually pretty limited.</p>
<p>And you&#8217;re right, &#8220;complaining&#8221; at a grass roots level changes almost nothing.  However moblizing the people to express concern and have their voices heard almost always begins as a grassroots action&#8230;and can definitely make a difference.</p>
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		<title>By: bMills</title>
		<link>http://www.bthesite.com/archives/2008/06/city-council-lets-budget-slide/#comment-3473</link>
		<dc:creator>bMills</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Though not surprised, I am saddened to see the Rash Field project postponed.  Aside from a parking garage that is desperately needed, the plan called for a new public park on top of the garage.  Baltimore still needs more green space and Rash Field's current condition is an embarrassing rash on an otherwise attractive and successful Inner Harbor.

I don't suppose the budget includes the major overhaul of the Pratt Street corridor.  I guess that was just a pipe dream.  Why does the BDC even commission the designs for these kinds of things?  Just to tease us?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Though not surprised, I am saddened to see the Rash Field project postponed.  Aside from a parking garage that is desperately needed, the plan called for a new public park on top of the garage.  Baltimore still needs more green space and Rash Field&#8217;s current condition is an embarrassing rash on an otherwise attractive and successful Inner Harbor.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t suppose the budget includes the major overhaul of the Pratt Street corridor.  I guess that was just a pipe dream.  Why does the BDC even commission the designs for these kinds of things?  Just to tease us?</p>
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		<title>By: Claude</title>
		<link>http://www.bthesite.com/archives/2008/06/city-council-lets-budget-slide/#comment-3465</link>
		<dc:creator>Claude</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The answer to all three of those questions is a resounding YES.

1) If the City Council can make changes only to have the mayor ignore them with impunity(as you note in the penultimate paragraph), then there's too much control on her part. We need more of a "checks-and-balances" approach to power in this town. 

2) As long as I've lived in Baltimore I've heard complaints about how this has to change, how that has to change, how terrible things are with the crime and the roads and the blight and whatever else, and come election time, everybody lines up and puts the same people back in office. 

3) There is a way to change things in this city, but it needs to be drastic and sweeping, and I think that scares a lot of people. But it starts with people making their voices heard. Complaining at the grass roots level does little; making yourself known at City Hall has a greater effect but that's still not enough. This needs to be a combination of making changes in the current government and a willingness to be part of the change.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The answer to all three of those questions is a resounding YES.</p>
<p>1) If the City Council can make changes only to have the mayor ignore them with impunity(as you note in the penultimate paragraph), then there&#8217;s too much control on her part. We need more of a &#8220;checks-and-balances&#8221; approach to power in this town. </p>
<p>2) As long as I&#8217;ve lived in Baltimore I&#8217;ve heard complaints about how this has to change, how that has to change, how terrible things are with the crime and the roads and the blight and whatever else, and come election time, everybody lines up and puts the same people back in office. </p>
<p>3) There is a way to change things in this city, but it needs to be drastic and sweeping, and I think that scares a lot of people. But it starts with people making their voices heard. Complaining at the grass roots level does little; making yourself known at City Hall has a greater effect but that&#8217;s still not enough. This needs to be a combination of making changes in the current government and a willingness to be part of the change.</p>
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