Consumer Sundays: comforting words about the financial markets and traffic signals tying up traffic
If you've taken some time to review your financial picture this week and found not-too-pleasant results, you might want to take a look at Eileen's Sunday column, full of reassuring words about the economy from investment professionals across the country.
The comfort sometimes takes the form of a history lesson, or quotations from wise people --- and smart investors --- but also, there's some tough talk about expectations and realities as we go forward.
And Sunday's Watchdog, about a traffic signal in East Baltimore that's been holding up drivers near the Baltimore County line, reveals an unfortunate reality about this feature in our paper:
sometimes issues turn out differently than they would seem at the outset.
We strive to select both a variety of types of problems as well as different locations for Watchdog. However, sometimes addresses that at first are reported in one community --- in this case, on the Baltimore County side of the city-county line --- turn out to be within Baltimore city anyway.
Last week's feature about Aisquith Street, closed between E. Baltimore and Fayette streets, is another example. That situation didn't get completely sorted out until the city Department of Public Works followed up on a permit that was issued for work on that roadway --- and determined it could reopen.
But that's why Watchdog exists: to help readers in the five counties around Baltimore, and Baltimore itself, sort out problems and get to the bottom of these sorts of situations.
Woof.
