Baltimore is a town striken with inequality, between rich and poor, black and white.
The slight of hand by senior politicians and big biz to abuse the public trust knows
no limits in this their field of opportunity ripe for the picking.
(The Port Covington tract is just 4% black. For it to be included in the program, another community somewhere in Maryland had to be excluded. The ones that the city suggested that were excluded by the governor, for example, are 68% black and have a poverty rate three times higher than Port Covington’s.)