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(BALTIMORE – April 17, 2019) – Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh finds herself in a pickle. The whole world is watching as the Baltimore chief executive, who is reportedly fighting pneumonia, aims to return to City Hall. At the same time, the Baltimore City Council, the Baltimore City Delegation to Annapolis, Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot, the Greater Baltimore Committee and others have asked her to step down.
It should be noted that all of this is playing out as Baltimore is a national leader in homicides, had 13 high schools last year when not one student was proficient in math, got a 2 out of 5 star rating from the State of Maryland for 46% of its schools, and is losing businesses left and right.
Further, this comes on the heels of the April 2015 Freddie Gray uprising which kicked-off in her then-state legislative district, the 40th.
Long story short: Baltimore is a mess, Pugh has been editorialized in the national media, and the City Council President Bernard “Jack” Young is now Ex-Officio Mayor. To her credit, Baltimore looks like it finally has a police commissioner who can get the ball down the field some amidst a Consent Decree.
Technically, Pugh is on “an indefinite leave of absence,” but that has not stopped the news stories from hitting the airwaves. Every couple of days, one local news outlet or another breaks a different angle on the story – from the latest University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) board member to resign to the latest entity to have bought copies of the infamous “Healthy Holly” book.
To boot, Pugh has not escaped the comedic wrath of late night television. At present, the world has been thoroughly amused by Pugh’s antics, including the bizarre press conference where she revealed a babies’ clothing line intended to accompany the book.
To help sort out this onslaught of news, here’s a list of articles on Pugh and her book for children from the Baltimore Brew:
“I understand how it may look to some” – a press release from Pugh on Healthy Holly MARCH 21, 2019
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