The Glover Report
The Glover Report: Dunbar Homecoming, Poly Football, and the Baltimore Activist Awards 2012:
Talking about speechless ...! I quickly had to gather my wits, read the spirits, and – be myself. All I know is we had a really nice time. I had so much fun with them, despite meeting under such a cloud.
Anthony Anderson was horribly killed, according to witnesses, by the hands of a Baltimore City Police Officer.
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COMMENTARY: No More Gerrymandering in Maryland!:
It is just over one week away from election day, and we have an excellent opportunity to make history in Maryland. For about 18 months, MCFR and our allies in both parties have worked to overturn the overtly gerrymandered map that is before the voters. As you probably have heard, Comptroller Peter Franchot has announced that he is AGAINST Question 5! Read in Full >>
The Glover Report: New York City Parents Fight Morning After Pill :: Join us Tuesday at 10 am on WOLB 1010 AM www.wolbbaltimore.com:
In the middle of the Poly-Mervo game, one in which Poly lost by 8 – I got a phone call from New York City. It was so encouraging that I had to share it with you. If you recall, I did a column on the Morning After Pill being liberally disseminated to 8 additional schools in New York City to girls as young as 14 without parental knowledge or consent. This makes a total of 13 New York City Public Schools engaged in a controversial pilot program that began over a year ago and makes birth control available to children.
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The Glover Report: Mr. Mitt Romney, You're Insincere!:
Here’s another one I’ve been trying to figure out: Why, at a time when diversity is the order of the day – why in the world would the Republicans choose two white males? Helloooo! It’s 2012. You couldn’t find a Latino? A woman? Read in Full >>
The Glover Report: Coppin Stage Set for New, Steady Leadership: The Resignation of Dr. Reginald Avery, President of Coppin State University:
Coppin is a relatively small family - compared to larger universities in Maryland. However, there is a lot of history at Coppin. It's next leader must come to appreciate Coppin's legacy to the community and all of the beautiful people who graduated there. Yes, this next president must come acting like he plans to marry Coppin, the beautiful bride and treat her and her people like a leader should: firm, but fair.
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Guest Editorial: COR Tigers: OUR FUTURE by Munir Bahar:
COR Tigers services the youth of Greater Baltimore. www.cortigers.com. Read in Full >>
The Glover Report: Interim Indianapolis Police Chief Rick Hite Continues the Good Fight:
Guess who came to the Memorial Service for former State Senator Clarence Mitchell, III? Rick Hite, our good buddy formerly of the Baltimore City Police Department.
Currently, he is the Interim Indianapolis Police Chief, and we are so very proud of him. Indianapolis has one of America's best crime fighters.
Guest Editorial: A Hip Hop House Divided: What Happened to U.N.I.T.Y. ?:
The only thing that is keepin’ commercial rap afloat, right now, is the implicit complacency of the silent majority of the population who appreciate real Hip Hop.
In other words, although many people complain , few are willing to actually do something about it.
TGR: I Love The Farmers Market : Ethel & Ramone's Maryland Creole:
So, to see this man and his son at work - teaching - learning .... early Sunday morning, well, let's just say it just warmed my heart. Start 'em early, folks! Children are like sponges! Read in Full >>
The Glover Report: A Passion for People: Meet My Friend, “Known As Monique”:
Baltimore entrepreneur works to heal missing and exploited persons; raises awareness about abductions, human trafficking
Can’t tell you where I first met the sister. I’m thinking that Eric Stewart and Women of Power may have had something to do with it. What I can say is that I dig her spirit. She cares. Simply put, she gives a damn about people. For her, the specific demographic is those persons who are missing out here via human trafficking.
FMI, visit www.KnownAsMonique.com.
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The Glover Report: NEW YORK, NEW YORK: Blacks Voted Off the Island: Racist Morning After Pill Follows Long History by Eugenics Movement to Exterminate Blacks:
As the father of an 11-year old daughter, I am absolutely flabbergasted at the efforts currently underway in New York City Public Schools to give Morning After Pills to children as young as 14-years old without their parents’ knowledge or permission. In a day and time when schools have to get permission just to give a child an aspirin, apparently giving a child a Morning After Pill to end an unwanted pregnancy is not as big a deal to elected officials and proponents of the program. After all, permission slips were sent to parents. Really? REALLY?
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The Glover Report: www.BMORENEWS.com Hits Chicago, 10.11.12:
From a political standpoint, those with whom I talked love Pres. Obama and feel he’s facing racism daily. They also like Rohm Emanuel, who – while I was there – let go of the Chicago Public Schools’ CEO Jean-Claude Brizard by ‘mutual agreement’. This came on the heels of a 7-day strike of the nation’s third largest school system in a Presidential election year where the last thing the President needs is turmoil within otherwise solid Obama territory. Read in Full >>
Clarence Mitchell, III, former MD State Senator, Passes:
My heart and prayers to the Mitchell family regarding the loss of Clarence Mitchell, III – our beloved state Senator – our friend – our ‘Bear’ also known as “C3”. When I was first getting my entrepreneurial news grind started, he and C4, his son and my friend, gave me air-time on WOLB 1010 AM right down on St. Paul Street in downtown Baltimore. They gave me love and encouragement. And over the years, the same would continue to happen.
Meanwhile, view our final interview of this political force.
Guest Editorial: President Obama Says He Was “Just Too Polite” In First Debate by Marc Polite:
A week after President Obama gave a lackluster performance at the first presidential debate, he assesses his own performance. In remarks on the Tom Joyner morning show today, the President said he was “just too polite” in how he dealt with Mitt Romney. Read in Full >>
WESTSIDE PRAISE REPORT: Hallelujah! Liquor Request Withdrawn at EASTERWOOD:
In an email to Marvin "Doc" Cheatham and other supporters of Easterwood's efforts to block a liquor license request in West Baltimore's Easterwood community, it was announced that the request before the liquor board was withdrawn. Read in Full >>
The Glover Report: A Son of the Goon Squad: The Life and Times of Judge Joseph C. Howard, Sr. As Told By His Son:
This is an introduction to a SPECIAL Series produced by BMORENEWS.com on the life and times of Judge Joseph C. Howard, Sr., an original member of the Goon Squad. The Goon Squad was a group of black leaders in Baltimore who met at Union Baptist Church where Rev. Vernon Dobson was the pastor.
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TGR: I Stand with Jack: New Schools and Recs, Not More Prisons :: Prevention is the Key!:
I stand with Baltimore City Council President Bernard “Jack” Young. We need this city, this state, and this nation to invest in our young people like we once did. These basic privileges ought be afforded to a community that comprises 30% of the state. Read in Full >>
The Glover Report: Asleep at the wheel at Baltimore City Public Schools HQ :: Maryland Has the Best Schools in America? Really?:
Here we go: $2.8 million in unwarranted overtime; 3 people getting a check from the State of Maryland and the City of Baltimore simultaneously; $1.5 million uncollected; $336,000 in bonuses for no reason; and hundreds of missing computers. This is just a partial list of what’s gone awry. Read in Full >>
COMMENTARY: Greetings from Free Fall Baltimore Cultural Arts Community, New Friends , Family & Associates:
On Monday, the encore presentation for the James Baldwin Literary Performance & Book Signing Salon@Studio KAFI was an amazing journey. Good conversation, good food, good music (and CD give aways for the musical, Nativity) and an excellent reading/performance coupled with some rare video footage from the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production made this a wonderful Free Fall Baltimore program in the Station North Arts District. Read in Full >>
WESTSIDE: No More Liquor Stores In The Easterwood Community!:
Baltimore, MD
Sign this petition with 69 supporters
Jolly’s Food Market, located at 1500 N. Monroe Street, has applied for a liquor store expansion. There are already thirteen (13) liquor stores within a six block radius in the community, many of which are only blocks away from Carver Vocational Technical High School and Matthew A. Henson Elementary School.
J. Wyndal Gordon to Release New Book ... Soon!: "Jury of Our Fears: The Trial of the D.C. Sniper.":
In the wake of the latest Lee Boyd Malvo interview, many have asked me in the last 24 hours, --but actually over the last six years, how’s my book on the D.C. Sniper coming and when do I think it will be completed. I think some even doubted whether I was really working on a book. Well, the answers to those questions are the book is coming along slowly but fine, and I don’t know when it will be completed. Read in Full >>
Guest Editorial: From the Desk of The Warrior Lawyer, J. Wyndal Gordon, Esquire: Update on Death of Anthony Anderson, Believed by Community to have been Killed by Baltimore's Finest:
New Baltimore City Police Commissioner Anthony Batts visited the family (with myself present) last week to extend his condolences but stopped short of identifying the officers involved or disclosing official preliminary cause and manner of death despite confirming possession of information.
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TGR: GODSON: Jawon Johnson Scores 3 Touchdowns in Owings Mills' Victory Over Patapsco 47-0:
As the text came in yesterday about Jawon’s great day on the field, I couldn’t help but be grateful that she even thought enough to send it. I mean – people have a lot going on. Nonetheless, it was phenomenal news – especially as I pondered how it literally takes an entire village to raise a child. I guess I was grateful she knew I cared and would welcome the great news with a loving heart because he is like my own son. I've never felt more honored.
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COMMENTARY: THIS ELECTION ... (This election is going to be close; I will never understand why.):
”All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. And it’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.” This Romney remark describes to perfection the mentality that I am talking about. The idea that people with less means are trying to get over and make an easy way out. Not understanding the basics of social help has been the big American problem.
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Guest Editorial: Open Letter from the New York City Parents' Choice Coalition: Demand an end to presumptive opt-in for the controversial DOE CATCH program:
(Editor's Note: Given the severity of this issue and that this is the first program of its kind in the country, the staff at BMORENEWS agrees that unless a stand is made in New York - this will be at our front door ... by dinner.)
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Dear Friend: Members of the New York City Parents' Choice Coalition, an organization comprised of more than a dozen New York City parent and religious organizations, gathered on the steps of City Hall today to demand an end to presumptive opt-in for the controversial DOE CATCH program which provides Plan B and hormonal contraceptives to kids without so much as notifying their parents.
Joined by State Senator Reuben Diaz, former Assemblyman Michael Benjamin, NYC Parent’s Union President Mona Davids, and others, the group renewed its call for an optional abstinence centered sexual risk avoidance program to be offered in the schools.
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POSSIBLY GO WRONG! A Grateful Group of Writers Gives Thanks to Bill and Camille Cosby:
The sudden ending to what’s affectionately known throughout the entertainment community as The Cosby Writing Program has resulted in an outpouring of gratitude tinged with despair for the loss of a program that, during its 18-year-history, trained and placed hundreds of writers of color behind the cameras of some of America’s most well-known and respected television series. Read in Full >>
Guest Editorial: POLITICS: Selective prosecution based on race and party cast doubts on state prosecutor:
And stories like these go on and on, for when you look at the obvious heavy hitter names that these prosecutors went after, the likes of: former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, Ron Lipscomb, Tiffany Alston, Darrell Miller, Julius Henson, Helen Holton, John Leopold, Paul Schurick; all are either African American Democrats or Republicans. Yet, when you compare people like bread kingpin John Paterakis fine and slap on the wrist of no jail time, or even community service based on his age (80); you wonder why elder African Americans such as Baltimore County Councilman Ken Oliver or former Baltimore City State Delegate Clarence ‘Tiger’ Davis – both convicted of minor campaign violations – weren’t afforded the same leniency? Both received probation before judgment while Davis was also forced out of the legislator and Oliver - who is 67-years old - also received 50-hours community service? Was he not too old? Read in Full >>
RIGHTSIDEWIRE: Commentary: Change of Fools by Armstrong Williams:
If Obama's inheritance of the financial crisis is enough to excuse four years of blunders, how much more will the next president, inheriting the Obama mess, be able to get away with? Read in Full >>
Guest Editorial: Congressional Black Caucus Conference 2012: First Day Thoughts:
Good mornng all! Yesterday was an interesting day, indeed. This weekend, I write this post from Washington, D.C. I am in town for the 42nd Annual Legislative Conference. The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation is holding a four day event, which started this Wednesday. The theme for this conference is Inspiring Leaders and Building Generations, and I noticed that much of it was geared towards youth and civic engagement. A great launching point for the events of the day, as they would run the gamut in dealing with a number of issues that effect young voters. Read in Full >>
Commentary: Where is "The Cosby Show" for this Generation?:
I have a confession to make. It’s a hard one to acknowledge, for in doing so I will also have to own up to my history as somewhat of a cynically inclined, your-never-black-enough-for-me, radical, “hater”. And, while my love and appreciation for my people is as solid as ever, as is my belief in our right to demand justice, I’m older now. Today, I have a much more rational and pragmatic perspective on life, and accept that there are many ways to achieve the same goal. I’ve matured. Read in Full >>
TGR: RANDALLSTOWN: Congrats to Pinky and Ms. Exquisite International Pageant 2012:
Exquisite International, LLC, for those who don’t know, is an event company that produces beauty pageants for women of all ages, sizes and ethnic groups. Through these pageants, Pinky and her business family remind women to embrace inner and outer beauty, and they promote the spirit of volunteerism.
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The Glover Report: The Middle East: The President's Albatross?:
In short, the Arab/Muslim world does not like us trying to tell them what to do or how to do it. Their values are different. Their religion is different. Their culture is different. The way they see relationships is different. Their dress is different. And their view of a democratic process … is different. While they do not like tyrants, they’re not too fond of the West either (That would be us). Read in Full >>
The Glover Report: Ambassador Assassination Indicative of Deeper African and Middle East Issue:
It was a somber day in Washington and the rest of the country as the nation mourns the death of the US Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stephens and three other Americans during an attack at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. Read in Full >>
Baltimore City Board of Elections: LOCAL QUESTIONS FOR Nov. 6th Election :: Do you support Question K - adding another year to the current terms of the Baltimore City Council, Mayor, etc.?:
These are the local questions to answer in the voting booth on Nov. 6th. For example, do you think the Mayor and the members of the Baltimore City Council should get an additional year to represent you? Yes? No? That is:
Question K
Charter Amendment
Municipal Elections
Resolution No. 12-03 for the purpose of confirming State Legislation, by providing for the election of the Mayor, the Comptroller, and the President and Members of the City Council in 2016 and in every succeeding fourth year; adjusting the terms of office for those elected in 2011.
For the Charter Amendment
Against the Charter Amendment
