Tag: holliday street

single executive system

responsibility
scrutiny
municipality
professionalism
highest bidded infrastructure use
unhasty legislation
limited floating debt
protected public schools
well-supervised assistance.
rising expenditure inelastic revenue
fictitious valuations
discounting the future
expensive mediocrity
wastefulness inefficiency
services rendered incommensurate with available resources
bogey of threatened removal

city hall from south at sunrise
(the city began operating under a new charter in 1898)

prometheus caged

a city-county with a senator and just so many delegates
free sane white males
not governed by duelists
with masters and slaves
three courts
fixed justice
and temporary additional police

peale museum at sunrise
(baltimore city became one of maryland’s confederation of counties, apart from baltimore county, with the maryland constitution of 1851 and is the largest independent city in the united states —the former peale museum on holliday street was being used as the city hall)

taxation without education

excluded from opportunities of respectability in humble confinement
from condescended illusions of independence.
a missed opportunity for assimilated cultural genocide

fayette street at sunrise
(the first public school, not available to african americans who supported it with taxes, opened on holliday and fayette streets in 1829)