How Baltimore’s legal wins over ballot questions were turned against Harborplace

November elections in Baltimore are typically snoozers — the real action in the Democrat-dominated city comes during the spring primaries. But this year was supposed to be different. Charm City’s denizens were poised to vote on massive issues. There was a proposition to cut the property tax rate by nearly half. Another to give cash payments to the parents of newborns. And yet another could have remade the city’s skyline along the Inner Harbor.