Posts Tagged ‘Adam Meister’

The developer behind the City Arts building purchases the largest vacant building in Station North

Posted by ameister on Monday, January 30th, 2012

Charm City Current is still live for some reason so I will post here for now.  You should be ready to switch to this site.

Jubilee Baltimore now owns the old theater at 10 East North Avenue in Station North.  This building went to auction in June. The Jubilee Baltimore web site says: “Over the next three or four years, we will work to create a center for the arts, including theatres, studios, galleries, and probably much more”.


10 East North Avenue

You can barely see the building in the background at the 8:44 mark in the following video (although you get a good feel of the surrounding area):

YouTube Preview Image

Jubilee developed the nearby City Arts building.  You can see the City Arts building at the 7:52 mark in the following video:

YouTube Preview Image

Bolton Hill legend Charlie Duff is one of the people behind Jubilee Baltimore.

Last post here- Where to find me and some cool links

Posted by ameister on Friday, January 27th, 2012

I will continue to cover local politics like no other person out there at the No Conaways In 2014 blog. Save this URL: http://noconawaysin2014.wordpress.com/ or just bookmark BaltimoreHourly.com, TechBalt.com, or AdamMeister.com. Feel free to email me at Adam at AdamMeister dot com.  I hope to get the real BaltimoreHourly.com online newspaper off the ground later this year. I need to find time for it and quite a few other ideas of mine.

Some stories from around Baltimore from all sorts of different sources on this final day of Charm City Current:

So much more to say

Posted by ameister on Thursday, January 26th, 2012

On Friday Charm City Current will shut down. I have no idea how long my old posts will remain on the Internet. My media career is not over.  I will have another blog by Monday. BaltimoreHourly.com, TechBalt.com, and AdamMeister.com will all forward to that new blog.  My BaltimoreHourly Twitter account will still Tweet out links to my new stories. I wish my dream online newspaper site that I have been talking about since 2009 was ready, but sadly it is not even close to being ready. I really need to dedicate some time to that project. For now you can expect my current blogging style/format to continue at my new WordPress blog. If I figure out the new URL on Friday I will post it here.

Thank you Charm City Current for allowing me to speak my mind. On August 1, 2011 Examiner.com stifled my freedom of speech when the prevented me from posting this. I said if they did not allow me to post that on my Examiner blog then I would never write for them again. They did not give in and I did not give in. I never wrote for them again.

This is not my final Charm City Current post. I will have at least one more news story today and hopefully a few more on Friday.

Thanks for your support!

Adam

Freedom of speech for Conaway supporters

Posted by ameister on Thursday, January 5th, 2012

So the special prosecutor is not going to charge Frank Conaway with anything.  This part of the saga is over. I have learned a lot about the justice system in this city and I will share some of the behind the scenes aspects of it that few people know about in a future post. I still do not understand why an elected official who gets paid close to $100,000 a year gets to be home at around 10:30AM on a work day.

Frank Conaway straight up lied about me being on his property. I was never on his property and I never tried to kick him. I have said this from the start. I stand by every single word I posted in my original post about this matter. The citizens of Baltimore have to understand they have a man in office who straight up lies about his fellow citizen (me) and for some reason gets to have a concealed carry permit while average citizens get to fend for themselves without legal guns.  It is a shame that the mainstream media paints this as a feud between Frank Conaway and myself.  Other than Frank lying about me and his daughter suing me this has nothing to do with me. It has everything to do with the citizens of Baltimore, the leaders that rule over them, and the mainstream media’s unwillingness to do basic research that could expose so much.  The citizens of Baltimore should be outraged over what this blog revealed about local politicians in 2011. Many of our leaders are political bullies who reign like unquestioned dictators  by relying on low voter turnout (brought on by most of the population not giving a darn), short memories, and lack of being questioned by the media and general population.  Look what you can dig up on Google if you take two seconds to do a simple search.

Over the last couple of months there have been people who have insanely said that jogging in certain neighborhoods is wrong, that expressing your political views in public is wrong, and that writing about political leaders in a critical way is wrong.  It is scary to read how so many people have no clue about the freedoms ALL OF US HAVE in this country. In honor of these freedoms I have decided to provide you some quotes and video clips from Frank Conaway supporters. Like me, they can say what they want to say, walk where they want to walk, and the public can decide if they agree with them. There is a great deal of irony in some of their actions.

A few weeks ago some Conaway supporters including Aaron Wilkes (see some of his numerous comments on my blog here) showed up in front of my house and held a four person protest. They brought a toilet and a megaphone. They also flyered my block with anti-Adam Meister literature. The video is below (make sure you check out the end where Aaron states what he had previously posted):

YouTube Preview Image

Right after the Conaway gun story broke a few of his supporters posted their thoughts on Facebook.

This guy ran for City Council President:

Here is another opinion:

Chairman of the Baltimore Maryland House of Delegates delegation, 43rd district delegate Curt Anderson can be seen at the following Frank Conaway rally at the 36 second and 2:54 mark. Anderson seems to want to keep a low profile at this rally, but the world should know that he was at this circus.  I assure him this video will still be around in 2014. C.D. Witherspoon and Doc Cheatham are featured in this video:

YouTube Preview Image
Click on this image to see a Facebook exchange C.D. Witherspoon and I had back in 2009 after I had seen him on Eutaw Place while I was jogging:


EDIT: An alternate version of the protest in front of my house video can be found here:

YouTube Preview Image

Video of my jog through the ruins of East Baltimore

Posted by ameister on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Yesterday I showed you what it looks like to run from one end of North Avenue to the other, today I will show you the rest of my 17.3 mile run which took me through some very rough parts of East Baltimore.

YouTube Preview Image

Not all of East Baltimore is in horrible shape, but Gay Street (I started above North Avenue where it is Belair road) and Greenmount have seen much better days. These two infamous streets are filled with ruins that are begging for rehab and brighter futures.  Before the buildings can be rehabbed there is going to have to be some sort of change in tone from the people in the streets and the elected officials of the area.

Oldtown Mall was the one place where I ran into very angry people during my entire 17.3 mile run. When I started to film the paved over northern Gay Street entrance to the mall a group of young men who were loitering beyond it (and who were so distant that I had not noticed them until they started to scream) started yelling at me and threatened to injure me and take my camera. I immediately turned off my camera and ran toward the area behind the mall while two of the individuals briefly pursued me.

Gay street and Greenmount have plenty of liquor stores and “convenience” stores on them and many of these establishments still have large political signs on the front of them. I have always said that our leaders endorse these establishments when they allow their names to be placed on them. What does it say about our leaders when they do not take down their signs from these questionable establishments weeks and months after the elections? They should live in the community and be familiar with where their signs are posted. Many leaders in Baltimore have their signs taken down the day after the September primary election. The outdoor ones are obviously the easiest to remove.  Most candidates know exactly where every sign of theirs is located during the campaign and they always are monitoring them to make sure rivals do not rip them down. Why do candidates care about their signs during the campaign and then forget about them once the campaign is over? It reminds me of the candidate who talks a big game during the campaign, but does little over the next four years. The somewhat scary state of the parts of East Baltimore that I ran through makes it obvious that there are plenty of elected officials in that area who fit the above profile. How many people would have run where I ran on Sunday? For the few who would I challenge them to explain to me how things can look the way they do and how some of it can not be the responsibility of our elected leaders. Where is the accountability in East Baltimore?

It is amazing to see how close the sleazy Block and and its anchor Hustler club are to City Hall. The proximity speaks volumes about the state of Baltimore.

Video of my jog on North Avenue from one end to the other

Posted by ameister on Monday, November 28th, 2011

On December 13, 2009 the following comment was posted under this blog entry:

“I challenge Mr. Meister to videotape a walk eastward on North Avenue,
from Gay Street to Hilton Street. Let’s see if he even survives the trip, much less is able to find anything positive to crow about.”

I have thought about this challenge for a long time. I run at least a half marathon three times a week so the length of North Avenue is actually much less than my regular run. On Sunday I decided to run all of North Avenue, Gay Street, and Greenmount. The entire run starting and ending at my house in Reservoir Hill was 17.3 miles. I had a blast although at Oldtown Mall I ran into an “issue”.  Below is a video of the North Avenue portion of my journey. I will post the Gay Street/Greenmount/East Baltimore portion of my jog on Tuesday.

YouTube Preview Image

The western part of North Avenue is in better shape than the eastern part. I also saw more people out and about on the west side. A few people shared comments with me on the west side including one guy who said that he had seen me on TV. Only one person communicated with me on the east side (she said good morning). Some younger people on the west side shared some obnoxious racial comments.

Both sides have their architectural gems, although I think the west side has more. The view from Baltimore cemetery at the east end of North Avenue was spectacular and I was disappointed that my camera dulled the view.

I had run on parts of this route many times. I usually get to that Aisquith street warehouse from 25th street so the North Avenue perspective gave me a different view of the area that I do not usually see. North Avenue has a stigma and an aura around it so running its entire length gave me a sense of accomplishment that I usually do not get when running on segments of it.

The desolation and destruction can be a little overwhelming at times, especially when you try to think about how things might have been long ago.  I see a lot of potential. The three-story buildings on the west side are  unique and there were random landmark type larger buildings scattered throughout the route that could be used as anchors for future development.

We need to remember that all of Baltimore is our city. You are free to explore any part of it. I hope that this video inspires people to visit some of the blocks and areas that I visited. In person visits help inspire ideas and this town needs a lot of new ideas if we are ever going to come close to rehabilitating huge hunks of this city.

Frank Conaway Sr. took a swing at me today

Posted by ameister on Monday, November 21st, 2011

Today during my 14-mile morning run I stopped by Aldi near Cold Spring at 10:20AM. I purchased some salmon, tuna, and beans and placed them into a Target shopping bag I brought along. I stretched and then ran back toward Reservoir Hill so I could drop my food off and continue my run downtown. At around 10:30AM I ran by 3210 Liberty Heights and I saw Frank Conaway in a suit walking down the front path toward the front gate of the property. The 3210 Liberty Heights  property is completely fenced in on the Liberty Heights side. I shared some words about his daughter’s frivolous lawsuit against me, his radio show (where he recently referred to me as that skinny guy in a derogatory fashion which is his right since this is a free country with free speech), and my feelings toward him. I thought it was very odd that Frank was not at his close $100,000 a year Clerk of the court job on a Monday morning at 10:30AM. It is also odd that EVERY FRIDAY for at least TWO HOURS he is not at his job, but rather at a radio studio near Woodlawn (Woodlawn is a suburb that is close to the suburb or Randallstown). Frank left his property and started to follow me. I had stopped running at this point and was located on the sidewalk a house or two down Liberty Heights. Frank and I were still exchanging words and he close his fist and swung his arm in my direction. I easily avoided it. He then tried to run after me, but I easily avoided him. I turned my back on him and I got an odd feeling based on something someone had told me about him once.  Cars passed by on Liberty Heights during this situation and at one point I thought I heard someone yell out something.

I ran toward Reservoir Hill and passed by Target. I believe the clock on the Target sign said 10:50AM. Soon after I saw the time I attempted to cross Reisterstown Road. A police car approached me with his lights flashing. He asked me why I was running, I told him I had just shopped for food and was running back to my house in Reservoir Hill. He said OK and drove away. This was the first time I had ever been stopped by the police while running.

I made it home soon after and left my Target bags on my back porch. A police car drove up my alley. I was happy to see it.  I then ran downtown to Fayette street and then I ran back home. About 20 minutes ago the Baltimore Sun called me and somehow they had heard about my discussion with Frank Conaway. There was a very disturbing aspect to their version of the story that I had not seen. I have no idea how the police knew about this situation since they were not around during the discussion. The Sun will have more on this I assume. Very odd.

Last year I predicted that Maryland would end up with Las Vegas style casinos

Posted by ameister on Thursday, November 17th, 2011

You can read my prediction from last year here.

Here is a quote from Tuesday’s Baltimore Sun:

“And while Loveman said the facility would be profitable with the 3,750 slots machines approved by voters, he said ideally the group wants the General Assembly to ask voters for a state constitutional amendment to allow table games as well. If that is approved, Loveman said, Caesars would hold some of its regional World Series of Poker competitions in Baltimore. Such events can feature 1,000 poker players vying for a place at a championship held in Las Vegas.”

This scenario was easy to predict. The voters will once again be convinced that the money from a casino will help schools and our state constitution will be altered again so we can have a Las Vegas style casino near Camden Yards.

Occupy Baltimore should occupy the empty lot near Camden Yards where the future casino will be located. This project is the ultimate 1% enrichment project that the rest of us will fund.  Schools will still be in shambles and Caesars will be richer.

Disgraced Belinda Conaway is gone! Frank Jr. is next!

Posted by ameister on Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

I know the Conaway’s and their lackeys read this blog so I hope they also check out the glorious election results here.

Nick Mosby crushed Belinda Conaway in the general election. The saga that Belinda started in early May when she sued me for millions of dollars and called attention to her residency issues has come to a glorious end. Belinda Conaway tried to ruin and silence me, but she ended up politically ruined and politically irrelevant. This did gain her family one thing, a political enemy for life!

The media in this town has been pathetically easy on the Conaways through the years. My basic research has dug up all sorts of interesting easy to find tidbits about them. I encourage all of you to jump on the anti-Conaway bandwagon because being anti-Conaway is being pro-Baltimore.

FRANK JR. IS NEXT!

A person at the Maryland Administrative Office of the Courts tried to post something interesting in the comments section of this blog

Posted by ameister on Monday, October 24th, 2011

In the middle of the workday on Friday a person with a Maryland Administrative Office of the Courts IP address tried to post the following comment on this blog. The person tried to use my name and an email address with my name in it.

“A comment on your post #1369 “The desperation of Belinda Conaway” has been added or approved.

Author : Adam Meister (IP: 170.99.106.245 , 170.99.106.245)
E-mail : adammeister@gmail.com
URL    : http://belindaconaway-write-in.weebly.com/
Whois  : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=170.99.106.245
Comment:
I AM THE MAN!!!!!

I TOTALLY SUPPORT THE CONAWAY FAMILY & BELINDA CONAWAY WHO IS ABOUT TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT SO REMEMBER ON NOV 8, 2011 VOTE CONAWAY”

170.99.106.245 traces back to:
General IP Information
IP: 170.99.106.245
Decimal: 2858642165
Hostname: 170.99.106.245
ISP: Maryland Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC)
Organization: Maryland Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC)
Services: None detected
Type: Corporate
Assignment: Static IP

Geolocation Information
Country: United States us flag
State/Region: Maryland
City: Baltimore
Latitude: 39.3656
Longitude: -76.6199
Area Code: 410

I am just getting around to this now because I was in San Francisco this weekend.

Should state employees be doing such things during the workday? I wonder who this person could be? Do you think the person has family members living in Randallstown?