Are Baltimore’s gains enough to secure a second term for Mayor Brandon Scott?

For those who tuned in to Mayor Brandon Scott’s State of the City address Monday evening, live from the Middle Branch Fitness and Wellness Center, the experience was likely underwhelming. That doesn’t make it bad, necessarily. Such annual assessments — whether in Towson, Annapolis or other seats of local government — are usually aimed at the political class and public servants who follow the minutia of bureaucracy, budgets, political alliances and the like, because, let’s face it, their careers center on it.