Tag: The Capital Gazette
The Curious Case Of The Raid On Alderman Kirby
<–To share this information with Google, your friends on Facebook, and your followers on Twitter, please click the icons to the left. Thanks! Details are still not being fully released and a lot of questions have been raised. Some regional media are reporting that the raid was indeed a “mix up” as quoted by CBS [...]
Capital Editor Feeling Heat For Pulled Column
<–Please share this post with your friends on facebook and your followers on twitter by clicking the icons to the left. UPDATE 11:46 AM 05/20/2011: This story has now been featured on Gawker and Queerty. Tom Marquardt, the Publisher and Editor of The Capital felt some heat for his decision to run a story about [...]
Capital To Furlough All Employees
Despite Rate Hike, Paper Still Struggles Late this afternoon the Twittersphere was buzzing about a new round of furloughs for all employees of The Capital. According to one tweet, The entire paper will be furloughed for five days in the first half of 2010. Another tweet was slightly more humorous, Help a journalist, buy a [...]
Capital Increases Price By 50 Percent
Local Newspaper Quietly Raises Price To 75 Cents Our local newspaper must be taking a page from the BGE playbook and has quietly increased the price of the daily paper to 75 cents from 50 cents. It was not too long ago that they increased the price of the Sunday paper from $1.00 to $1.50–also [...]
Bill Burton Dies
Outdoorsman and Columnist Passes Away At 82 According to WBAL, longtime Maryland outdoors writer Bill Burton has died. The 82 year old resident of Pasadena died at his home this morning. Burton had been battling cancer and diabetes in recent years. For 5 decades his columns and stories appeared in the Evening Sun, the Annapolis [...]
Marquardt’s Monthly Wine Whine
The Capital’s Editor Explains It seems that The Capital has a new monthly column, where the Editor, Tom Marquardt lays ink to paper and attempts to explain his way out of some crazy decision made by The Capital. This Sunday’s column was a perfect example. Shropshire Issue Apparently, The Capital took some heat on running [...]
Sex Ads In The Capital
Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures Does anyone want to take bets on how long it took Capital Editor, Tom Marquardt’s voice and email boxes to become full when they decided to run these two quarter page ads in the July 6, 2009 edition on page B2 and B3? Hang on, the Letters To The [...]
Anyone Up For A Mystery Brunch?
Great Brunch If You Can Find It Perhaps any one of the following may have helped: Name Address Phone number
The Capital Claims To Know Voter Intent
By now, we all know about how messed up the bids are for slot machines. The Capital Gazette never hid its disdain for the slot referendum leading up to election day in its editorial pages. And apparently, the disdain continues today. In today’s Editorial, The Capital alludes that it knows what voters think. And to [...]
