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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4 - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015
Kraft says he
will be on 2016
ballot, but not
for 1st District
BY ERIK ZYGMONT
EDITOR@BALTIMOREGUIDE.COM
City Councilman Jim Kraft saved a major
piece of news for the end of the big state-ofthe-district speech he delivered at the Canton
Community Association meeting on Jan. 27.
“While it is my full intention to be on the
2016 primary ballot, I want to make it clear
that it will not be to seek reelection to this seat
as your first district councilman,’ he said. “It
is time for me to do something different.”
Speculation abounds--City Council
president, mayor or a judgeship are a few that
are circulating on the internet. City comptroller
has also been mentioned.
Soon after Kraft made his announcement,
WBAL’s Jayne Miller, who was attending the
meeting as a CCA board member, yelled to
him from the back of the room: “What are
you running for?”
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It looks like the Little Free Library will have to suffice for several
more months.
Representatives from the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the city’s
Department of General Services regretfully informed residents at the
Canton Community Association meeting on Jan. 27 that the Canton
Library renovation would not be finished in June of this year, as
planned.
“That will not happen,” said George Sandruck, a construction
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overseeing the project.
At issue is the building’s windows.
“Currently we’re in a tête-à-tête with the Maryland Historical Trust
with regard to the replacement of the windows,” Sandruck explained.
“We’re at loggerheads with them right now.”
He said that the actual completion date now “looks like October,”
depending on the outcome of a meeting with the Historical Trust
scheduled for Feb. 2.
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To the Editor
Letting up on some
fees isn’t enough
To the Editor:
Our new governor Larry Hogan wants to
develop strateg esi that will improve
Maryland’s economy.
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He has said “Baltimore should be the state’s
primary economic engine,” and pointed out
the city “hasn’t been as strong as it should be.”
The first item on Governor Hogan’s agenda
should be seeking ways to end this city’s war
on retailers. The list of Baltimore’s “minor
privilege” fees in the Guide’s Jan. 28 article,
“City lets up on some fees,” is mind-boggling.
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government would inflict yearly penalties for
amenities like bike racks, disability ramps and
outdoor lighting.
I was aware Baltimore was unfriendly to
business, but had no idea the reach of these
hostilities!
As a downtown resident and shopper, I’m
tired of watching retailers depart for the
county. It’s wrong for a city of this size to have
so many “food deserts,” or large areas where
fresh produce is unavailable. And it’s also
incredible we don’t have one office supply
store in the downtown community.
The Baltimore Development Corporation
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local businesses. No doubt there are more
financial annoyances lurking below the
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How ironic that our city encourages businesses
to make outdoor improvements and then slaps
on fees for doing it.
Yet my next concern is how the city will make
up for the lost revenue from “minor privilege”
fees. Where will that money come from? It’s
obvious we need a full scale house cleaning to
put Baltimore’s defeatist business
philosophies to rest.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015
Kraft says 1st District should demand Circulator
Service to Canton; hints at development
corporation for upper S. Broadway corridor
by EriK zygmont
EDITOR@BALTIMOREGUIDE.COM
Amid the general overview of his recent
work and the goings-on in the Southeast, 1st
District City Councilman Jim Kraft slipped a
few revelations into the state of the district
speech that he delivered on Tuesday, Jan. 27,
at the Canton Community Association’s
monthly meeting.
Close Patterson High School
First, he said that Patterson High School
should be closed. Kraft noted that he had
voted against the city contribution to the
Baltimore City Public Schools budget last
year, in part, because of “the continuing
academic deterioration of Patterson High
School.”
“Our principals will not send their children
there, and the system knows it,” said Kraft.
“That school needs to close, and we need to
something else.”
Whenever a Southeast parent mentions
sending a child to Patterson High School, the
principal of that child’s middle school talks
the parent out of it, Kraft added.
Kraft said that other reasons he had voted
against the budget were “the system’s failure
to provide an adequate number of Spanishspeaking teachers and staff to our schools
here,” and for what he characterized as “the
system’s general disregard of the [City]
Council itself.”
For an example, Kraft mentioned that the
City Council had only been informed on
Friday, Jan. 23, of two meetings on BCPS
plans for new schools at Holabird Academy
and Graceland Park; the meetings were held
Tuesday, Jan. 27, the same night as his
address.
“We know who the people are and how to
get the people out to the meetings,” he said. “It
makes no sense to have a meeting when half
of the people won’t be there.”
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Kraft noted that residents in his district
shop at Canton Crossing, the city’s newest
shopping center, and see movies and go to
dinner in “the city within the city that is
Harbor East.”
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015
Greektown residents work toward quieter trains
BY ERIK ZYGMONT
EDITOR@BALTIMOREGUIDE.COM
Members of the Greater Greektown
Neighborhood Alliance discussed ways to
assuage “the number one Greektown
complaint,” noise from trains, at its meeting
last Wednesday, Jan. 27.
At issue was the Fait Ave. train crossing,
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do several east-west streets that meet the large
north-south swath of industrial land and
network of railroad track just east of Haven St.
Betty Smoot of the Baltimore City
Department of Transportation attended the
meeting to follow up on a discussion she had
had with GGNA in July, on the process of
establishing a railroad “quiet zone” for the
train crossing at Fait Ave.
A railroad quiet zone is a railroad crossing at
which the Federal Railroad Administration
permits an exception to the “train horn rule.”
At “at-grade” crossings--crossings in which
automobiles and/or pedestrians directly cross
the tracks directly rather than passing under or
over via tunnels or bridges--trains are required
by federal law to sound their loud horns as they
approach.
If certain improvements are made to the
crossing, such as signage, gates and flashing
lights, the horn rule may be relaxed, subject to
FRA review.
The Fait Ave. crossing is located directly
adjacent to Ryan Homes’ O’Donnell Square
development (not to be confused with Canton’s
O’Donnell Square), a large, new, residential
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Smoot said that, since the July meeting,
DOT had determined that the Fait Ave.
crossing is private, which means that no federal
or state dollars could be allocated toward
making the crossing improvements that would
allow for a quiet zone.
If a quiet-zone designation were pursued, the
necessary improvements could cost “from
$30,000 to $1 million or more, depending on
what kind and combination of improvements
are needed,” Smoot said, adding that $100,000$150,000 study would first be needed to
determine the necessary improvements.
Smoot advised that a dialogue between
residents and the Crown Industrial Park would
be the next step in the process. If residents were
to pursue an agreement with Crown and its
tenants (a large number of artisans and smallerscale makers and businesses) regarding the
establishment of a quiet zone and a funding
mechanism for the necessary improvements,
then “the city would be willing to participate in
that and be at the table,” Smoot said.
Part of DOT’s analysis of the crossing
included a count of the vehicles that travel that
stretch of Fait Ave. According to Smoot, the
stretch of road is busiest on weekdays between
8 and 9 a.m., when 75 vehicles pass.
GGNA President James Pringle questioned
Smoot regarding the method used for counting
vehicles. If an automated method were used, in
which vehicles are counted as they break a
beam spanning Fait Ave. or drive over a wire
on the ground, the results could be off, he said,
because the road is narrow, and a vehicle
traveling toward the middle of the street might
register simultaneously as an inbound and
outbound vehicle and be recorded as two
vehicles in the study.
After the meeting, Pringle noted that, per his
reading of FRA quiet zone regulations (they
are complex and available at fra.dot.gov), a
quiet zone may be established with fewer
improvements if vehicle traffic at a crossing is
sufficiently low.
City Councilman Jim Kraft, who attended
the meeting, said that he had been in some
recent meetings with a development team
regarding redevelopment of the Crown
Industrial Park.
“I told them that folks in the community
were bothered by the noise,” Kraft said.
While ingress and egress from the site,
which has few access points, is a hot button
issue with the Fire Department, “at the point
that you have a multi-million dollar
development going in, that intersection would
have to be addressed,” Kraft said.
The councilman did note that residents
could consider the trains and tracks themselves
permanent.
“While we can work on a quiet zone and
should work on a quiet zone, people should
remember that you are sitting on one fo the
biggest industrial zones in the United States,”
Kraft said.
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d Wednesday, February 4
o Butchers Hill Association: The
association meets Wednesday, Feb. 4, 7 p.m.,
at St. Andrew’s Church, Lombard and Chester
streets.
a Fell’s Point Residents Association:
The association meets Wednesday, Feb. 4, 7
s p.m., at Bertha’s Mussels, second floor, 734 S.
Broadway.
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e Thursday, February 5
St. Helena Community Association:
The association meets Thursday, Feb. 5, 7-8:30
p.m., at the St. Helena Community Center,
y 6509 Colgate Ave.
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Friday, February 6
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applications are not received by Feb. 6. If you
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automatic acceptance to our school will be
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Free Zumba: The Door, 219 N. Chester St.,
is holding free Zumba Gold classes every
Friday night at 6:45 p.m. Info: 410-585-8810,
beth.myers@bannerneighborhoods.org.
Saturday, February 7
Pick-up Men’s Lacrosse: Come and play
pick-up lacrosse in the park every other
Saturday, 10 a.m. Meet at the Pagoda. Bring
your own stick; a few laoners are available if
you don’t have one. This group is for novices.
Info: Search for the group on meetup.com.
Sunday, February 8
Italian Classes: The Rev. Orestse Pandola
Learning Center is planning courses for
spring. Classes are available in all things
Italian, from the language to the culture to the
cooking. Children’s classes are also available.
Learn to make limoncello or gelato; learn
painting, jewelry making, Italian card games
and more. Classes will be held at St. Leo’s
School, 912 Stiles St. A special day of
registration will be held on Sunday, Feb. 8,
after the 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. Masses at St.
Leo’s, 227 S. Exeter St. TEachers and staff
will be available to answer questions about the
school. Info: pandola.baltimore.md.us, 410866-8494.
Monday, February 9
Patterson
Park
Neighborhood
Association: The group meets Monday,
Feb. 9, 7 p.m. (socializing starts at 6:30 p.m.),
at St. Elizabeth’s Church Hall, basement-side
entrance, Baltimore and Lakewood avenues.
Young Adult Group: Join young adults
18-35 at Sacred Heart of Mary Parish, 6727
Duluth Ave., Dundalk, as we seek to build our
relationship with God. There will be talks,
testimonies, small group discussions, music,
free food and weekend activities. We meet
Mondays, 7 p.m., in the Parish Center, 6727
Duluth Ave., a two-story brick building. Info:
SacredHeartYA@gmail.com or 410-633-2828.
Tuesday, February 10
Bayview Community Association: The
association meets Tuesday, Feb. 10, 7 p.m., at
Our Lady of Fatima Church, Pratt and Kane
streets.
Fell’s Point Community Organization:
The group meets Tuesday, Feb. 10, 7 p.m., at
EBLO, 606 S. Ann St.
Wednesday, February 11
Fell’s
Prospect
Community
Association: The association meets
Wednesday, Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m., at Cristo Rey
Jesuit High School, 420 S. Chester St. Info:
fellsprospect.org.
Save the Date
Fish Fry, Feb. 18-April 3: Starting Ash
Wednesday, Feb. 18, and every Friday from
there through Good Friday, April 3, the
Dundalk Knights of Columbus is offering its
famous fish fry, with Alaskan pollock, fries,
slaw, roll, dessert and drinks for $12. Beer and
wine are extra. Take-out, $13. The fish fry is
available at the Dundalk Knights of Columbus
Hall, 2111 Eilers Ave., Dundalk. A portion of
proceeds go to religious and/or community
charity. Info: Call Joe Witomski at 410-4098173 or 410-285-6660.
Road Fight, Feb. 21: The Road Fight--the
battle of the 1960s fought and won by residents,
who kept the freeway from supplanting Fell’s
Point and Canton--is a seminal part of the
history of southeast Baltimore. In February,
the Friends of the Canton Library will present
the “The Road Fight: Saving Canton, 19681976,” the latest installment of the Friends’
Canton Memories program. The event,
featuring Joe McNeeley, Betty Deacon and
Charlie Duff on the panel of “Road Fighters,”
is Saturday, Feb. 21, 2 p.m., at the Firehouse
Hall, 1030 S. Linwood Ave. In the event of
snow, the event will be held the following
week, same place and time. All are encouraged
to attend with their own memories and
memorabilia of Canton and southeast
Baltimore to show and tell. Refreshments will
be served. Info: 410-935-3696.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015
HIghlandtown native celebrates two decades of helping the elderly
By Erik Zygmont
EDITOR@BALTIMOREGUIDE.COM
In senior citizens’ homes across southeast
Baltimore, there are watertight faucets,
functioning smoke detectors, well-oiled door
locks and general sense of working order,
thanks largely to one man.
This year is Larry Kline’s 20th working on
the Senior Home Maintenance Program, a
Banner Neighborhoods initiative in which
adults age 62 and up, living in the homes they
own, receive home maintenance and minor
repair service free of charge. The program is
also open to fully disabled adults of any age.
The program exists for a simple reason, as
Kline tells it.
“The ones that stay in their homes--we try
to keep them there,” he says.
Its execution is also simple.
“They call in when they need something,
and I make an appointment to go out and see
them,” says Kline.
In 2014, he completed 268 work orders,
according to Jolyn Rademacher Tracy,
executive director of Banner Neighborhoods.
His customers speak very highly of him.
“Mr. Larry’s a great person,” says Anita
Impallaria, who lives near the northern edge
of Patterson Park. “He’s a wonderful man,
always there when you need him. He’s of the
old school.”
Impallaria began using the Senior Home
Maintenance Program when her father’s
aging began accelerating, and she had less
time to perform day-to-day home maintenance.
“When you’re a caregiver, every little bit
helps,” says Impallaria, now 73 and using the
program herself, especially for tasks that
would require her to climb a ladder.
“I hope [Kline’s] not going to retire or
anything,” she adds, informed of Kline’s 20th
work anniversary. “He always calls me back
and comes down.”
Grace Benvenga, a huge Highlandtown
booster known for sweeping the streets, about
to celebrate her 97th birthday, calls Kline “a
good guy.”
As she talks about the past--her days as a
girl standing on Eastern Ave. and yelling at
the Canton kids to stay on their side, or her
multiple citations and recognitions from
politicians like Martin O’Malley and Barbara
Mikulski, or the fact that her birth certificate
states that she was born in Highlandtown--she
weaves in a few compliments for Kline.
“Larry’s a good guy,” she says. “If you’ve
got a job for him, he’ll do it for you.”
Kline’s customers’ appreciation is
reciprocal.
“They’re like my long lost mothers and
Larry kline began his work for Banner neighborhoods on Babe ruth’s 100th birthday. | Photo by Erik Zygmont.
fathers,” he said. “You get to know them real
well.”
Kline, 62, began his career with the home
maintenance program in February of 1995.
“For me, it’s easy to remember because it
was Babe Ruth’s 100th birthday,” he says.
An acquaintance had alerted him that
Banner Neighborhoods was looking for
temporary help.
“It was supposed to be for about two
weeks,” says Kline. “Twenty years later I’m
still here. You fall in love with the elderly and
trying to help them. It just grows on you. Most
of them don’t have family around. Some are in
their 90s; a lot of them have outlived their
kids.”
Prior to finding his calling, Kline spent
most of his life in Highlandtown. He grew up
on Mt. Pleasant Ave., north of Pratt St. off
Highland Ave. His father, Arthur Kline,
worked at Esskay Meats, and his mother,
Evelyn, was a housewife.
Kline attended grade school at Sacred
Heart at Conkling and Fleet. When school
was out for the summer, he was easy to find.
“Patterson Park,” he says. “Baseball and
football--we were there probably 10 hours a
day. Everybody lived in Patterson Park if you
were a kid back then; there was always a game
or something to do.”
Kline initially attended Patterson High
School, but he left and later got his GED.
When he was 17, he enlisted in the Marine
Corps and shipped off for Vietnam.
“I joined,” he says. “I’m one of the few
patriots left, I guess.”
After that, he did aluminum siding for 17
years, and also met his wife. When they got
married, he moved to North Point where she
lived.
When not fixing things in seniors’ houses,
Kline is often glued to a baseball or football
game.
“I am an Orioles and Ravens nut,” he says.
He is also an avid member of the U N
Society, a club headquartered at 201 S. Eaton
St. It was originally founded as an Italian
organization, and now holds social events
such as bull roasts and 50s dances. Though he
is not Italian, Kline is the current vice president
of the club, and previously served as president
for 10 years.
While he enjoys his leisure time, he’s happy
to work, too. He mentions each staff member
at Banner Neighborhoods. “They’re some of
the nicest people to work with,” Kline says.
Forty percent of the enrollees in the Senior
Home Maintenance Program are 80 and over,
according to Banner Neighborhoods
Executive Director Jolyn Rademacher Tracy.
Five participants are 90 or over.
“We have a woman in her 70s who has
lived in her house her entire life,” Tracy adds.
“A good chunk of those 80 or over have been
in their homes for 50 years.”
Tracy says that Banner Neighborhoods,
“which works with the people in neighborhoods
to improve quality of life for everyone,” was
founded on the Senior Home Maintenance
Program in 1982. Today, the organization is
involved with youth, as well, and focuses on
“social capital” endeavors and “people stuff,”
Tracy says.
Seniors age 62 and up who own and live in
their homes may obtain more information
about the Senior Home Maintenance Program
by calling 410-585-8810, and leaving a
message with their name and phone number.
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KRAFT: Speculation time
PET CARE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
“I’ll be addressing that issue at a later date,”
he said.
Back to his more formal remarks, Kraft did
say that he hopes for residents’ continued
support.
“As I’ve said tonight, we face many
challenges,” he said. “We will need lots of
good people working together to meet them. I
hope that, when the time comes, you will
support me in my effort to remain one of
them.”
Earlier in his state of the district, Kraft had
commented on what he calls the “silly season,”
when candidates are just starting to put
themselves out there and jockeying for
position at the very beginning of the campaign
season.
“People begin promising things that
everyone knows--even the voters--can’t be
delivered,” he said.
Baltimore City is on the cusp of the silly
season, Kraft said. The primary election--in
which voters will choose the presidential as
well as mayoral and City Council candidates
for their political parties--will be in April
2016, about 15 months from now.
Kraft noted that when he ran for his first
term, 12 years ago, there was no incumbent,
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as the 1st District was newly created.
“The campaigning focused largely on each
candidate’s vision as to what was best for
southeast Baltimore,” he said. “...by and large,
the campaigning was a positive one.”
Kraft’s words could be taken as advice to
1st District voters, who will choose their new
councilman from a field without an incumbent,
or to the emerging candidates themselves. He
might also have been signaling that he intends
to run a positive campaign for whatever
position he will seek.
Who will run for Kraft’s spot? The rumor
mill is running full bore.
No pet owner wants to hear it and some may
even take offense to it.
Your vet kindly tells you, “your pet needs to
lose some weight,” but what you hear is, “your
pet is fat.”
The blunt truth is that obesity is the leading
health threat to our nation’s pets. Obesity
plagues our pets, and it’s actually at epidemic
levels, threatening the health and longevity of
their lives.
The core of the problem is awareness. The
average pet owner does not know what a
healthy weight for their pet looks like.
According to the Association for Pet Obesity
Prevention, 93 percent of dog owners and 88
percent of cat owners thought their pet was
within normal range of weight, when in
actuality they were not.
Based on the 2013 U.S. pet population,
APOP conducted a study that yielded the
following results: 52.6 percent dogs were obese
or overweight and 57.6 percent of cats were
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Once the Historical Trust approves a set of
windows--which must be wood and “almost
identical” to the originals, Sandruck said-they can be ordered. But they won’t come in
the following week.
“Right now, even if we had the approval of
the windows today, it would take them over
three months to be produced and delivered,”
lamented Sandruck.
He hinted that the city has been unable to
make it clear to the Historical Trust that the
original windows are not an option.
“Right now it’s interesting, because they
want us to retain the old windows,” said
Sandruck, “but, as you know, they are sitting
in a landfill someplace.”
As the parties seek a resolution, JA
Argetakis Contracting, the company chosen
to renovate the library, has adjusted the
construction plan.
“In an effort to forestall that part of the
delay, we have given instructions to the
contractor to proceed with this project as if we
weren’t replacing the windows,” Sandruck
explained.
When a decision is made and the windows
arrive, they will be replaced from the outside
rather than the inside, he added.
Sandruck also noted that, currently, the
project is prioritizing cost and community
impact over speed. That could be adjusted if
the wait for the library is simply deemed too
long, he said.
Up to now, there has been no weekend
work. If the contractor works on weekends,
the project, originally bid at $1.65 million,
would go faster, but it would also be more
expensive, Sandruck explained.
John Richardson, a Pratt Library liaison to
the construction project, also expressed
regrets over the delay.
“I’d be delighted to tell you I was doing a
bang-up job; obviously, because we’re looking
at a delay, that would be a hard sell,” he said.
Richardson did add that “everything that
can be done...is being initiated by the library.
It is of utmost concern that we get this project
completed for the Canton community.”
The Canton Branch of the Enoch Pratt Free
Library (colloquially known as the “Canton
Library”) has been closed since early 2012.
The Michael Group was the original contractor
chosen for the renovation, but termite damage
to the building proved to be more extensive
than specified in the request for proposals.
The Michael Group and the city both decided
to not proceed with the contract.
The scope of the project was re-assessed,
and new request for proposals was written,
which the city awarded the contract to JA
Argetakis Contracting in September of 2013.
The Little Free Library is a small sturdy
box that serves as a community book exchange
while residents are waiting for the full
renovation of the Canton Library. The Little
Free LIbrary is located on the property of
Church on the Square, 1025 Potomac St., at
the east end of O’Donnell Square and adjacent
to the Canton Library.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015
BIRDS HOUSE
BY ANDY
MINDZAK
How do O’s stack up for 2015?
After you go to Baltimore’s Fan Fest and
interact with Orioles players, you can’t help
but leave excited. Seeing the players means
baseball is just around the corner.
While hopes are high, let’s see how the O’s
stack up against the other teams in the
American League East.
Last year the Orioles finished 12 games
over the second-place New York Yankees, 13
games over the third-place Toronto Blue Jays,
19 games over the Tampa Bay Rays, and 25
games over the last-place Boston Red Sox.
While those standings are so favorable in the
O’s favor, that doesn’t mean 2015 will be a
repeat of 2014.
For starters, the O’s have lost a few players,
and, while they haven’t made the big splashes
in free agency, they still have the potential to
repeat as AL East champs. The Yankees
haven’t made that many big additions either,
and they might be worse off. Starting pitcher
Masah ro
i Tanaka is coming back from
injuring his elbow, and while he opted to not
have Tommy John surgery, I can’t help but
wonder when that ligament might tear and
force him to go under the knife. While I
certainly don’t wish that to happen, I feel there
is a good possibility that it might, and if it’s
this year, the Yankees don’t exactly have a
great starting rotation to fill that gap.
The Blue Jays added slugging third
baseman Josh Donaldson from the Oakland
Athletics, giving them even more power…just
in case they needed it. While that move is
certainly a boost to an already potent offense,
their pitching rotation is still sketchy at best.
The Rays lost manager Joe Maddon as he
now is the skipper leading the Chicago
Cubs. Their offense looks moderately worse
than last year’s version, and with Ben Zobrist
now in Oakland, that certainly won’t help.
Evan Longoria can still hit and their rotation
has quite a few good young arms, but if they
can’t figure out a way to score runs (their 612
runs scored in 2014 were dead last in the
American League), they might have trouble
competing this year.
In my mind, the Boston Red Sox are the
team to watch. Sure they finished dead last in
2014,
but this year might be different. For starters,
they added a few big names on offense like
Hanley Ramirez and Pablo Sandoval. They
also added a few decent arms for the rotation,
like Rick Porcello, Justin Masterson (provided
he doesn’t pitch at all like he did in 2014), and
Wade Miley. While those three guys aren’t
anywhere near the quality of Jon Lester, who
is now in Chicago with the Cubs, having
quality depth in the rotation is paramount in
baseball.
So where do the Orioles stand in all of this
mess? I would say they certainly have a good
shot to repeat, but the AL East will come
down to them and the Red Sox. Either way,
both will make the playoffs.
Will Masahiro
Tanaka remain
healthy and
ensure a
formidable
pitching rotation
for the Yankees
this year? The
answers to
this and other
questions give us
some clues about
the O’s earlyseason standing.
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With the development comes complications:
“You get stuck in the traffic that is the
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Aliceanna-Boston St. corridor,” Kraft said.
He added that this year he had, “without
fear of exaggeration, an average of a meeting
a week dealing with development, traffic,
transportation, or some other related matter
on this corridor.”
The problem, according to Kraft, is not the
amount of people, but that “there are too
many cars.” He mentioned, as he has many
times in the past, extending the Charm City
Circulator out to the Canton Crossing area.
He said that the request has been “pending
for years” in the mayor’s office.
“Her response has consistently been the
same,” Kraft said. “If you can pay for it, you
can have it.”
Likely referring to the 1st District’s
contribution to the city’s tax rolls, Kraft said:
“Folks, I think that it is time to say that we
are paying for it and we must have it. Now.”
Help on the way for upper Broadway?
Kraft mentioned his “special obligation”
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“We have various community associations
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Kraft mentioned the Broadway Area
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“It’s going slowly, but it’s going,” Kraft said.
What the area really needs, he added, is “a
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Kraft said that he had “had two offline
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