Nothing concentrates the mind like a bill hearing.

Ditto for a lawsuit filed by the City of Baltimore asserting that the bill introduced by the owners of Pimlico Race Track is unconstitutional.

City Solicitor Andre Davis said it more lawyerly: “We are going all the way to the extent we need to in order to have reasonable adult conversations about what is best for Baltimore.”

That would not be the first time such conversations take place.

The owners of Pimlico, the State, and the City of Baltimore paid for and were full participants in the Maryland Stadium Authority’s study of the future of the Pimlico site.

The study concluded that a work group consisting of those three parties should discuss how to finance the redevelopment of the property.

That’s been the City’s position since we introduced House Bill 1090, Maryland Stadium Authority’s Pimlico Race Course Study Workgroup.

A Baltimore Sun editorial also discusses the lawsuit.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-0321-pimilico-lawsuit-20190320-story.html