Baltimore City Paper reports on conflict of interest

713 W. St. Paul Street, Baltimore. Photo by Uli Loskot, Real Estate Photographer

by one of my favorite architecture writers (one of the better architecture critics in the United States), Ed Gunts of the Baltimore Sun. According to the article "My Architecture," Gunts owns a lot of property in the Mt. Vernon and Bolton Hill neighborhoods.

If you look at the photos of his portfolio (in the article), clearly he is a committed historic preservationist and has a good eye for beauty... Should he not own property, or should he disclose his holdings? In the interim, the Sun has instructed him to not report on those neighborhoods.

Although I do wonder what Ben Forgey's house looks like, now that you mention it.