Reminder: There will be a meeting regarding the Libbie-Grove-Patterson Master Plan tomorrow evening, May 22, at 6:30pm in St. Christopher’s Middle School auditorium. The meeting is open to the public and is intended to provide an opportunity for property owners and interested stakeholders to review the proposed rezoning and to ask questions and/or provide comments [...]
City Councilman Jon Baliles will hold the first of what are to be bi-monthly Town Hall Meetings next Tuesday, March 26, at 6pm at Albert Hill Middle School (3400 Patterson Avenue) We will have an update on public safety, Richmond Public Schools with School Board member Glen Sturtevant, the ongoing budget process, and the new [...]
“Baliles survives recount” by final margin of 20 votes over Bruce Tyler.
Your vote makes a difference, at least in this race: The complete but unofficial results of the 1st District City Council race leaves Jon Baliles with just a 24-vote lead over Bruce Tyler (Times-Dispatch) Baliles got 6,183, or 49.85 percent, of the vote for the seat representing Richmond’s West End, while Tyler received 6,159, or [...]
The race for 1st District City Council seat wound up extremely close; with some absentee and provisional ballots uncounted, Jon Baliles holds a lead of several tenths of a percent over incumbent Bruce Tyler. Glen Sturtevant beat Trent Park for School Board, receiving about 57% of votes. Mayor Jones was re-elected by Richmond voters yesterday. [...]
Just in case you had somehow managed to forget… Election Day is tomorrow, November 6 – find your polling place here and What’s On My Ballot? from the State Board of Elections. 1st District Sample Ballot Times-Dispatch Voter Guide ****************************************** And here is a recap of information about some of the issues and candidates: Richmond [...]
The Glen Burnie Civic Association will be hosting a debate between 1st District City Council candidates Bruce Tyler and Jon Baliles tomorrow evening, October 9, at St. Giles Church (5200 Grove Avenue) beginning at 7pm. The candidates were also profiled in the Richmond Times-Dispatch last week: “1st District council race focuses on styles”.
With November around the corner, First District politics is heating up. City Council 1st District candidate Jon Baliles spoke out to NBC12 this week about a “green alley” project completed in the Near West End behind St. Christopher’s Road. It was undertaken as a result of citizen complaints about poor drainage in the existing alley, [...]
