Completely agree, this happens all the time. The moment the blinker comes on, the person behind speeds up. They do it to merging traffic all the time, tailgating in the right lane, etc.

Here, this was a work zone and both drivers were reckless. People died because of it.

It's immensely better.

Responsible parents usually means parents who aren't the working poor, who aren't the people who have no choice but to leave kids unattended while they work multiple jobs. Factor in drugs and crime that walk hand in hand with poverty, and that's a recipe for what we have now.

Because Americans still believe that you deserve to be poor, that you just didn't work hard enough. Children don't get to choose their parents or their living situation. I'm sympathetic, but it's a problem that's unsolvable until a critical mass of people have their "come to Jesus" moment about poverty in this country. There are no easy fixes, either.

Hunt Valley Wine & Liquor, next door to Wegmans in Baltimore Co. has good pricing

If you feel like going to Harford Co. Midway has really good pricing, out on Rt. 40.

Not talking about the county. The city is completely unique architecturally, and I've already acknowledged it has problems. Walk though Charles Village, Remington, across North Avenue, down into Mount Vernon and pay attention to the buildings and businesses around Charles Street. Even the transit isn't bad with the Circulator. (Could be better, yes) Yes DC is safer, never was the point. But if you can't see how fantastically beautiful these areas really are, I don't know what to say.

Canton is the closest in style to DC strip malls and definitely not dangerous, but two blocks over, there is a good bar/restaurant scene.

Waters used to hang out in the Club Charles years ago, and it's that area around Charles Street, I'm sure he's partially referring to.

Agreed, but I'm in the city.

Grew up in Texas, where everything shut down in Houston and Dallas downtown after 6pm and looked like a ghost town. Baltimore never looks like that. You have to go outside the city to find the strip mall sprawl, and the inner city isn't dead after 6pm.

Just look at the difference between DC and Baltimore. Baltimore has better architecture, better restaurants, and a quirky atmosphere. DC is not as open nor as friendly as Baltimore, quickly turns into a ghastly version of strip mall sprawl outside of downtown, which doesn't exist in Baltimore proper.

Baltimore has problems, but I'll take Baltimore over any ugly dead Southern city where strip mall sprawl is the norm.

Yes.