News Stories

August 14, 2008: OC

April 16, 2008: Baltimore Sun Editorial

March 8, 2008: Milestone Ceremony for Dundalk Renaissance Corporation

January 30, 2008: Paying Off Sports Bet with Smile, Service

June 23, 2007: Judge Backs County LNG Plan
(Baltimore Sun) A federal judge upheld a Baltimore County law yesterday that bans liquefied natural gas plants in some coastal areas, dealing what the county government described as a major blow to a company's plan to build such a facility...

April 19, 2007: Towson's Budget Caution
(Baltimore Sun) While state lawmakers may brag about how they've stopped digging a hole in the budget, Baltimore County Executive James T. Smith Jr. has gone a step further - he has started filling it in.

March 1, 2007: Power 50
(Baltimore Magazine) To define power is a tricky thing. This ranking of the 50 most powerful people in the Baltimore area is not a scientific list, but it is based on hard numbers and achievements and records.

October 14, 2004: Jim Smith -- The Un-Politician
(Baltimore Magazine) Jim Smith is a terrible politician.
"He's not a gifted, natural politician -- nobody would deny that," says Sun reporter Andy Green, who covered Smith for almost two years. "Which is not to say...