Hmm.. Maybe next year is an election year?!
When I was in graduate school, I took a course in Municipal Financial Planning taught by an adjunct, Mr. Lloyd Jones, who was then the budget director of Baltimore. He said, among many other things, : you, as a political official don't mess with the boys in blue, police and fire, or the teachers. Woe be unto the politician that does and wants to get elected.
Well, yes, but the rank and file think the our Mayor SRB has messed with them plenty (Buz doesn't totally agree, but gets the unions' point).
But perhaps she fully believes that the city will dramatically win the lawsuit the unions have lodged against the city because of the pension. Or, the announcement will simply keep the wolves from the door till after the election. Or the economy will suddenly get tremendously better. Who knows?
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Hi Buz... Well I sure wish she would put some cops on Fayette and Conkling Streets! The prostitutes and drug dealers have finally won. I am getting out of dodge as soon as possible.
Ah, the area around there has been getting bad for the last year or so. I've noticed crime and related issues pressing onto Patterson Park from the north and Northeast.
May God have mercy on us all!
At the gym I go to a Circuit Court judge said to me: the criminals aren't afraid of us anymore.
Perhaps the District Commanders will be ordered to work around the clock forever. That'll scare the thuggie-wuggies.
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