Mayor Sheila Dixon (D) of Baltimore to resign.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 6th at 04:12 PM  | 

(H/T: @leonwolf) About time, too. Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, the first woman to hold the city’s highest position, will officially resign her post as mayor. A deal was reached in the case regarding her recent conviction and her future case involving perjury charges, 11 News I-Team reporter David Collins said Wednesday afternoon. Lawyers for Dixon and state prosecutors in her embezzlement trial spent time behind | Read More »

Yet *another* Democratic Mayor arrested on felony charges.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 9th at 07:34 PM  | 

It’s perversely impressive when they actually, literally steal from the poor. Very 19th Century, only with better sanitation. Baltimore mayor indicted on theft, perjury charges BALTIMORE — Mayor Sheila Dixon was indicted Friday on charges that she accepted illegal gifts during her time as mayor and City Council president, including travel, fur coats and gift cards intended for the poor that she allegedly used instead | Read More »