{"id":189870,"date":"2010-02-05T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/05\/new-mayor-in-baltimore\/"},"modified":"2010-02-05T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T16:57:00","slug":"new-mayor-in-baltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/02\/05\/new-mayor-in-baltimore\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mayor in Baltimore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheila Dixon&#8217;s resignation as Mayor of Baltimore became effective yesterday, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/baltimore-city\/bal-md.ci.dixon05feb05,0,4784435.story\">she was sentenced to probation by the judge<\/a>, while she was replaced by City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake as mayor.<\/p>\n<p>As to my take on this:  Dixon appeared to be an effective mayor, but she was always small scale corrupt, it seemed that every 2-3 years, you had her getting caught putting relatives on the payroll or steering work to firms that employed her friends and relatives.<\/p>\n<p>As to Ms. Rawlings-Blake, she has always seemed kind of a non-entity, somebody who is where she was because her father, the late Howard &#8220;Pete&#8221; Rawlings, was a major power in Maryland politics.<\/p>\n<p>Well, seeing as how we have what could be one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/weather\/bal-snow-storm-hits-region0205,0,6793117.story\">largest blizzards on record for the area rolling in on us<\/a>, she gets a baptism by fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheila Dixon&#8217;s resignation as Mayor of Baltimore became effective yesterday, and she was sentenced to probation by the judge, while she was replaced by City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake as mayor. As to my take on this: Dixon appeared to be an effective mayor, but she was always small scale corrupt, it seemed that every &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,1071,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-maryland","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}