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SATURDAY 11.18.2006 baltimoresun.com maryland Dixon chooses transition team Promises gone, not forgotten O'Malley Web site removes policy papers, but some especially Republicans keep track 47 members named, including leaders in business, health care, clergy, nonprofits PI REGION NARROW VICTORIES FOR GOP Donald Dwyerand Ronald George, two Republican candidates in Anne Arundel, have squeaked past their Democratic opponents. PG 2B SCIENCE CONTEST WINNERS Three Maryland high school students qualify for the regional Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. PG 3B OBITUARY AGENCY OFFICIAL Perry Stewart a supervisor with Baltimore's Department of Public Works, dies at 75. PG 6B later to check whether a politician is keeping his promises have disappeared from www. martinomalley.com.

The link to donate money to the mayor, though, is alive and well. O'Malley spokesman Steve Kearney said the position papers were taken down in the normal course of moving from campaign to governance. There's no one left at the campaign to update the site, Kearney said. However, the governor-elect still intends to make good on his promises, Kearney said. 'That's why we made them," he said.

Please see PROMISES, 7B ent services, and community and social services draws on a wide range of Baltimore institutions, including the Johns Hopkins University, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and several prominent businesses. "The response was overwhelming, and I appreciate their efforts," said Dixon, 52, who will become the city's first female mayor next year. "I shared with them that many of my friends and supporters stressed to me that I should surround myself with smart people and talented people." Dixon and several members of the committee confirmed that Please see DIXON, 5B BY ANDREW A. GREEN SUN REPORTER As Martin O'Malley makes the transition from candidate to chief executive, one thing seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle: his vision.

Or, more precisely, the "Vision" link on his campaign Web site. In the days since the Baltimore mayor beat Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. to become Maryland's 6lst governor, his policy positions on higher education, health care, utility rates, transportation and the environment the sort of things critics pull out months or years BY DOUG DONOVAN AND JOHN FRITZE SUN REPORTERS City Council President Sheila Dixon, who will become Baltimore's mayor in January, announced a 47-member transition team yesterday that includes business, nonprofit, health care and church leaders who will help hire employees and craft policy priorities for her administration next year.

The team, which is made up of five committees leadership, economic and neighborhood development, education and intergovernmental affairs, constitu "I WANTED VERY TALENTED AND SMART PEOPLE." SHEILA DIXON, ON CHOOSING HER TRANSITION TEAM Man wounded in drive-by shooting POLICE IDENTIFY OFFICE SHOOTER Abuse of power known in both parties Investigation of motive under way; company evaluating its security KANE BY JULIE SCHARPER AND JENNIFER MCMENAMIN SUN REPORTERS The man who opened fire during a meeting in a Baltimore County office was a computer technician who killed his supervisor before taking his own life, according to police and company officials. Morris Keith Lyons, who managed the help desk at BD Diagnostics Systems in Sparks, shot the company's director of information technology several times in the upper body early Thursday afternoon, police said yesterday. The victim, Harold W. Creech, had come to Lyons' second-floor office at a company facility in the Loveton Center business park. As police continued to try to determine what prompted the murder-suicide, a company spokesman said yesterday that BD Diagnostics would evaluate its security policies.

"Like most companies, we have controlled access and strong security measures and procedures at all of our facilities," spokesman Stephen Kaiser said in a statement. "The facts are still being gathered; as they develop, we'll certainly review them and assess our measures." Both Lyons, 52, and Creech, 59, had been with the company since 1998, Kaiser said. A woman who answered the door at Lyons' home in Carney declined to comment, saying, "I'm sorry. We have nothing to say." Neighbors on Derwood Court a short stretch of single-family homes and town-houses said the Lyons family did not interact much on a friendly street where neighbors watch each other's children, check up on one another and take care of pets and mow lawns for vacationing families. One woman estimated the Lyons family had lived in the neighborhood for at least 10 years.

Others in the neighborhood said that Lyons, who apparently was known by his middle name, and his wife have three college-age children. The pastor at the family's church, St. Ursu-Please see SHOOTING, 7B sB9 11 yikKll lliS' "bIJjKSJ PHOTOS BY GLENN FAWCETT SUN PHOTOGRAPHER Baltimore police officers examine a car that was hit by a bullet in a drive-by shooting in the 2100 block of N. Dukeland St. Police say two men in a white van shot De-shawn Richardson, 26, yesterday.

Right, Richardson is taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center. He was in critical condition last night. RON DELLUMS, RE-cently elected mayor of Oakland, is feeling pretty darned good about the recent congressional elections. And there's no reason he shouldn't. The mayor-elect is the former Rep.

Ronald V. Dellums of a liberalleftist swatch of a congressional district that comprises parts of Oakland and Berkeley. Dellums was first elected to Congress in 1970 and stayed there 27 years. Earlier this week, Dellums spoke to members of the Trotter Group at their annual gathering, which was held this year on the campus of Stanford University. (The group is named for black journalist William Monroe Trotter, who in the early 20th century dared to scold President Wilson in the White House, no less for his pro-segregation policies.) Dellums was rakishly handsome when he first went to Congress and, at 71, is still so today.

The black Afro hairstyle he once sported has now been changed to a gray one; the black mustache has given way to a gray-and-white beard. During his address to the Trotter Group, Dellums seemed like a tall, lean, grandfatherly type, an old-school left-of-cen-ter Democrat quite pleased that Republicans got bounced from majorities in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. "This election's an incredible repudiation of arrogance and incompetence," Dellums intoned. "This election was about how you can't just give one group of people this amount of power unchecked." Don't you just love it when Democrats talk this way? Dellums didn't really mean "one group of people," of course.

He meant "Republicans." As in "you can't just give Republicans this amount of power unchecked." From 1977 through 1981, there was a Democratic president in the White House and Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. Ditto for the years 1993-1995. Anyone recall Dellums talking about Please see KANE, 7B Fire burns political landmark Former Stonewall Democratic Club in Federal Hill damaged by flame, smoke uit I'M SITTING HERE SCRATCHING MY HEAD, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WOULD MAKE KEITH LYONS DO THIS." FORMER CO-WORKER OF GUNMAN MORRIS KEITH LYONS fighters, four fire engines, two fire trucks, a battalion chief, a safety officer and the air flex unit responded to the scene. They established a water supply, gained entry and within 30 minutes all visible fire was extinguished, said Cartwright. The fire did not spread to structures on either side.

By about 8:30 p.m., firefighters were standing in front of the building. Ladders extended to the second and third floors of the rowhouse struc ture. Firefighters standing inside began breaking what remained of the windows and window frames about 30 minutes later. South Charles Street, which smelled smoky and musty, was closed off to accommodate the seven fire trucks and ambulance that responded. Although the windows were gone and it looked black and charred inside, the words "Stonewall Democratic Club" Please see FIRE, 7B Street, said Chief Kevin Cart-wright, a Baltimore Fire Department spokesman.

"The whole building was engulfed in smoke and heavy fire in the rear," said Baltimore Fire Captain Ray Ryan at the scene of the fire. Cartwright said there was moderate damage to the second and third floors. There were no injuries. The cause of the fire remains undetermined. "It's under investigation," said Cartwright.

About 36 fire BY SUMATHI REDDY AND JENNIFER SKALKA SUN REPORTERS The former home of the Stonewall Democratic Club a Federal Hill political institution suffered moderate damage yesterday after a fire broke out, overwhelming the Formstone building in smoke and flames. At about 7:30 p.m., city firefighters were dispatched to the fire at 1212 S. Charles OBITUARIES 6B REGIONAL NEWS 3B LOTTERY 3B WEATHER 12B.