Baltimore’s unmet needs — where to begin?

It is, of course, absurd to suggest that Baltimore’s best strategy for solving its problems is to buy a lottery ticket — but that’s just the point. The city shouldn’t be in a position of waiting for some miracle to address the needs of its residents. It should be able to expect that the rest of the state (and, for that matter, the federal government) would recognize that we bear a collective responsibility to invest in workable strategies to improve the lives of those in the most need. What are the odds of that? Better, we hope, than 1 in 302,575,350. But Mayor Pugh, maybe you should buy that ticket, just in case.