11th District

One man, one vote is the principle the founders of our country used as a basis for our government.This is the reason that after everydecennial census, the General Assembly must redraw the congressionaland legislative districts within Carroll and Maryland.That has been dictated by Congress as well as the U.S. Supreme Court.Ideally, the process works to ensure that every citizen has equal and fair representation. Population changes -- people move, people die.An area that in 1980 had 50,000 people might have a population of 100,000 in 1992.

As hundreds of Baltimore firefighters marched on City Hall Thursday afternoon to protest service cutbacks, Mayor Sheila Dixon announced plans to postpone the closure of any more companies until the end of the fiscal year on July 1. One company had been scheduled to close on New Year's Day. Dixon also said that the number of companies closed for a day on a rotating basis will be reduced from five to four, and that the Fire Department had applied...

The once decorous state Senate race in northwestern Baltimore County has turned nasty, with incumbent Democrat Paula C. Hollinger and GOP challenger Richard J. Manski hurling accusations of lying and distortion.Ms. Hollinger was furious Friday about a Manski campaign brochure that included a "Special Crime Alert Insert!" The insert showed a photo of drug paraphernalia with the caption, "Free Heroin and Crack for Addicts," Paula Hollinger, Baltimore Sun, 10/10/94.She complained that her remarks had been distorted and taken out of context.

He isn't the nominal head of the state Democratic Party, he doesn't hold public office anymore, and a lot of people didn't recognize him at first.But state Sen. Paula C. Hollinger couldn't have been more pleased with the endorsement she got Tuesday night from former Gov. Harry R. Hughes.Support from Maryland's last governor, Mrs. Hollinger implied, will do more for her campaign than the endorsement Gov. William Donald Schaefer gave her opponent, Sen. Janice Piccinini, in a bitter battle of Baltimore County incumbents thrown together by redistricting.

State Sen. Paula C. Hollinger, the Democratic incumbent from the 11th District seeking a seventh term in the General Assembly, is running on a long record of accomplishment in Annapolis. "I feel very proud of the work that I've done," she said, after reciting a list of legislation on education and senior citizens that she helped forge and wants to see carried out. But her Republican challenger, Alan P. Zukerberg, maintains that Hollinger has lost touch with constituents, whom he pledges to give a greater say in government decisions.

There are few verities in politics but one is that a Baltimore County state senator will bite the dust in the Sept. 13 Democratic primary.Sen. Paula C. Hollinger, 53, of Pikesville, and Sen. Janice Piccinini, 48, of Timonium, are each determined to be the one still standing after the electoral shootout.But this cannot be: One must fall.The confrontation between the two incumbents, both feisty liberals, arose when district lines were redrawn to meet population changes in the 1990 Census and court decisions requiring more black representation.

High above the $220 million town center project in Owings Mills and within view of the motorists zooming by on Interstate 795, a banner hanging from a construction crane displays the name "Brown." The work of developer Howard S. Brown, who is chairman of David S. Brown Enterprises, is reflected in signs throughout Baltimore County. At a business park down the road from the town center project is a sign identifying it as a Brown property. Another sign there reads: "Elect Bobby Zirkin." With the primary election less than two weeks away, the developer and the candidate are facing questions involving campaign dollars and political influence.

If the old saying, "Money is the mother's milk of politics," is true, then William Cole appears to have a big advantage in the District 11 City Council race, where nine candidates are vying for the seat to be vacated in December by Keiffer J. Mitchell Jr. Mitchell, who has held the seat for 12 years, decided not to seek re-election because he's running in the Democratic mayoral primary election. District 11 includes Bolton Hill, Reservoir Hill, Otterbein, Federal Hill, Mount Vernon and a number of West Baltimore neighborhoods.

The 8th, 9th and 11th City Council districts stretch from the western city-county line to the Inner Harbor, taking in the bright waterfront tourist attractions promoted on city tourism brochures as well as gritty, crime-ridden areas more likely to turn up on television's The Wire. That diversity is evident in the 8th District, where Councilwoman Helen L. Holton, a Democrat, faces Jacquiline Johnson, who is running as an independent. In one corner of the 8th sits Dickeyville, a 19th-century mill town with white picket fences and houses that look as if they were plucked from Colonial New England.

Two-term state Del. Bobby A. Zirkin describes his district in northwest Baltimore County as having a small-town feel, where it's not out of the ordinary to run into your former fourth-grade teacher while waiting in line for a coffee at a Pikesville Starbucks. "I told his mother he'd be a lawyer - and president," Amy Harris, Zirkin's teacher at Wellwood Elementary, said on her way out of the store one afternoon this week. For now, Zirkin, a Democrat, wants to be a state senator. He is facing Republican Jeffrey S. Yablon, a first-time candidate, for the seat in District 11, which includes Pikesville and Owings Mills.