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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

After a Most Violent Year, an Ailing City Looks for Signs of Hope by Josh Sanburn

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: April 25, 2016
Article: After a Most Violent year, an Ailing City Looks for Signs of Hope
Page: 13
Author:  Josh Sanburn
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1. On April 12, 2015, in West Baltimore, Freddie Gray was thrown into a police van before dying of a spinal injury.
2. Baltimore had 344 murders.
3. The criminal trials of the six police officers have been stalled.
4. The Police Commissioner was fired.
5. The Mayor of Baltimore did not run for re-election.
6. 13 candidates will be running for Mayor of Baltimore.
7. Catherine Pugh is running a campaign on improving schools and creating jobs.
8. Sheila Dixon is running a campaign that when she was in office, there was less crime.
9. DeRay Mckesson is a Black Lives Matter activist and social media star.
10. Answers will vary
11. Kevin Davis is the new Police Commissioner.
12. Arrests have increase by 20% with the new police commissioner.
13. True, before the unrest, Baltimore halted a decades-long population decline.
14. Baltimore's downtown's Inner Harbor started looking like a real neighborhood instead of a tourist showpiece.
15. Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank is leading the multi-billion dollar effort in Port Covington.
16. There will be a distillery, manufacturing space, publicly accessible waterfront area, and Under Armour's headquarters.

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