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MAYOR KURT SCHMOKE: "Statistics for this year indicate these high rates of infection are declining. Beginning early in the new year, we intend to release the name and picture of one person a month convicted of soliciting for sex on the streets of our city. While foreign policy experts are worried about 'no-fly zones' in certain areas, I want to create 'no-open-fly zones' in certain areas of my city...
...shelling out $25 million to set up an office of his Open Society Institute to see if there is synergy to be gained from applying many of his different programs in one place. "I'm sure, whatever he focuses on, it will help," says Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke. "It will have to be well targeted, because $25 million is both a lot and a little. A lot if you focus on a limited number of problems; a little if you try and go after all the problems of urban America...
...California's flamboyant former state-assembly speaker, faces a Dec. 12 runoff against decidedly unflamboyant incumbent Frank Jordan (who weirdly sought to liven up his image shortly before the election by showering in the nude with two local disc jockeys). In Baltimore and Philadelphia, no surprises: Democratic incumbents Kurt Schmoke and Edward Rendell won easily...
...Black Panther Angela Davis: "No march, movement or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners...can be considered a positive step." Jesse Jackson, who may fear being eclipsed by Farrakhan, joined the march without hesitation, but others, from Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke to the Rev. Joseph E. Lowery of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, offered exquisitely calibrated statements of support that distinguished the march from its organizer. "I don't accept hate-filled, antiwhite, anti-Semitic language coming from anybody," Schmoke said, but he would be marching "because I think...
However, the most quietly painful lack of support was from African-American leaders themselves. Though 20 members of the Congressional Black Caucus were invited, the only black elected officials to attend were Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke and Congressmen Kweisi Mfume of Maryland and Donald Payne of New Jersey. Jackson was the only representative from any of the other major black civil-rights organizations to show up. Chavis seemed to be alluding to absentees as well as critics when he declared, "The last time I checked my back, it was someone of African descent that put the dagger in and twisted...