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Mayoral candidate Thiru Vignarajah on school funding, violent crimes and stemming population loss

Democrat Thiru Vignarajah is running for Baltimore City Mayor. Photo: Thiru4Baltimore
Democrat Thiru Vignarajah is running for Baltimore City Mayor. Photo: Thiru4Baltimore

Thiru Vignarajah keeps coming back. It’s the democrat’s fourth run for office, his second campaign to become mayor of Baltimore City. He describes how he’d fund schools, his plans to make city streets safer and lessons learned from being a political outsider.

Check voter registration status here, Thiru Vignarajah site here, request a mail-in ballot here, Early voting and other election day info here.

Melissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'