Maryland: Sheila Dixon

August 3, 2009 - 11:00 pm
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Reporter

Devil’s Dance

From Red Maryland
Baltimore Democrats wish Sheila Dixon’s legal troubles would just go away:
The new indictments issued last week in the City Hall corruption probe has many of Baltimore’s political leaders impatient for resolution to a case that has spanned three years and left the city’s reputation in limbo.”Most people I talk to are saying [...]

March 26, 2009 - 09:14 am
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Sun

Dixon case in court, mayor at a fundraiser

The first motions in the state's case against Sheila Dixon are scheduled to start at 10:30. So what's a mayor to do on such a potentially stressful morning? Hold a fundraiser! According to an e-mail from Friends for Sheila Dixon,...

March 24, 2009 - 11:16 am
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Sun

Rawlings-Blake zings Dixon on group home issue

Baltimore City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake today blamed Mayor Sheila Dixon for lack of neighborhood support for legislation that would make it easier for group homes that treat drug addicts and other disabled people to locate in Baltimore. Speaking on...

March 24, 2009 - 11:16 am
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Sun

Rawlings-Blake zings Dixon on group home issue

Baltimore City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake today blamed Mayor Sheila Dixon for lack of neighborhood support for legislation that would make it easier for group homes that treat drug addicts and other disabled people to locate in Baltimore. Speaking on...

March 10, 2009 - 03:55 pm

BERT introduced to Baltimore

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon announced a team that will oversee how the stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (now known here as ARR!)  She introduced the Baltimore Economic Recovery Team (BERT).  The Balimore Sun says that she wants to focus the money towards maintaining and creating city jobs.
The city is expecting $30 [...]

February 19, 2009 - 11:05 am

Dixon Feels Snubbed

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon (D) is felt snubbed when then-President-Elect Barack Obama (D) rode to Washington on a train from Philadelphia with a pit stop in Baltimore.
In her first interview with WJZ-TV (Channel 13) since she was indicted, Dixon stated that she was bothered when Obama did not mention her.
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February 18, 2009 - 10:50 am
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Sun

Dixon and O'Malley: Partners in progress?

I wonder how this quote from Sheila Dixon's WJZ interview last night went over in Government House: "In the past two years, I've done more than my predecessors have in 12 or seven years," Dixon said. That would be the...

February 18, 2009 - 10:50 am
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Sun

Dixon and O'Malley: Partners in progress?

I wonder how this quote from Sheila Dixon's WJZ interview last night went over in Government House: "In the past two years, I've done more than my predecessors have in 12 or seven years," Dixon said. That would be the...

February 16, 2009 - 11:40 am
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Sun

Sheila Dixon: Maryland's first black governor?

Mayor Sheila Dixon is walking a treacherous path in Annapolis. As the Baltimore Sun’s Julie Bykowicz reports today, Dixon has encountered some critics among the city delegation in the state capitol, who say that on certain issues, she doesn’t communicate...

February 5, 2009 - 08:08 am
NEWS FEED: Baltimore Sun

Sheila Dixon and the politics of raises

Sometimes you wonder what Sheila Dixon is thinking. For someone who's been in office as long as she has, she seems awfully tone-deaf sometimes on the politics of her job. Yesterday, the Board of Estimates approved 5 percent raises for...