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shot, write-in campaign. Republican Michael John Bradley is also a candidate. Mosby is endorsed by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake which Conaway says is evidence a for the political machine. Mosby says not true. going to be an independent voice in City Hall, no matter how you cut he said.

Mosby grew up in Northeast Northwood neighborhood. He says his mother, who died a year and a half ago, struggled to raise him and his older sister alone. Mosby recalls her picking him up from after-school programs after riding several buses from her job answering benefit questions at the Social Security Administration in Woodlawn. I am not supposed to be Mosby told supporters at a summer campaign rally. black male taught to ride a bike by his mother, taught to catch a football by his mother, taught to be a man by his mother I am not supposed to be here.

But I am. And all because that potential was tapped by my Many of the boys he grew up with in Northwood, wound up getting sucked into the drug trade despite the support of loving mothers and grandmothers, Mosby says. On Saturdays, his mother rode the bus with him to the Baltimore School for the Arts so he could take acting classes. He also attended a program at Morgan State University for minority students interested in math and science. Discussions of youth programs, especially a recent flap over the plan to put two dozen rec centers in private hands or shutter them, affect him personally, he says.

He says he would push for Roosevelt Rec Center to remain under the control. grew up at a rec he said. know how important they Mosby also says his experiences in the public school system drive him to work for better schools. His elementary and middle school classes did not prepare him for the rigors of Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, he says. schools they failed he said.

lose so many of our kids, particularly African-American males, in middle why Mosby was quick to respond when Civitas government and history teacher Chris Turk invited him to speak to his freshman seminar students. had been following the election and knew he was running to represent the said Turk. and his wife responded Mosby spoke to the freshman class, then returned to talk to a group of boys whom teachers identified as needing additional guidance. Mosby prodded those who said they wanted to be pro athletes when they grow up. player? We threw that out.

What Mosby asked student Saiquan White. said Saiquan. interested in music and technology and could literally be anything that you want to be. Mosby said. you invest in the time now, you will set yourself up, and your family, your mothers, your grandmothers, in a better situation for the rest of your Mosby says he got serious about academics at Poly, where he played varsity football while participating in a program through Verizon to prepare minority students for engineering careers.

He went to Tuskegee University, a historically black campus in Alabama, where he changed majors twice before settling on electrical engineering. After graduating in 2002, he moved back to Baltimore to take a job at Verizon. He currently supervises the division that coordinates video streaming. Within a few years, he had married his college sweetheart, Marilyn Mosby, a Baltimore assistant attorney, and purchased a shell of a house in Reservoir Hill. The couple rebuilt it and are raising their daughters, ages 3 and 1, there.

Mosby launched a bid for the 11th District council seat in 2007, losing to Bill Cole, a former state delegate. He dug into community life, becoming president of the Bolton Park Neighbors Inc. in 2008. Chet Myers, the current president, said Mosby was instrumental in securing nonprofit status for the Bolton Park group and convincing the city to fence and provide water for a community park on Reservoir Street. Mosby positioned himself for another run for council, joining the board of the Midtown Community Benefits District and winning a seat on State Democratic Central Committee.

This year, as a result of Mayor Stephanie redrawing of district boundaries, Reservoir Hill is in the 7th District. That meant he would face Conaway in the election. Mosby says he mapped out a strategy early, tapping a close circle of relatives, friends and neighbors to become the core of his campaign. He scored a significant win in snaring the services of the influential fundraiser Colleen Martin- Lauer, who manages finances for the campaigns of Rawlings-Blake, Gov. Martin and about half of the council.

He and his volunteers targeted in the district, and, he says, he wore a hole in a pair of shoes campaigning. Mosby asked his niece to recruit dozens of her college friends to attend Rawlings- campaign kick-off in June while wearing red Mosby T-shirts from his 2007 campaign, because he had not raised enough funds for new shirts. It was in the middle of the summer that Mosby realized his message had gotten through. He knocked on the door of a woman he had never met near Mondaw- min Mall and she said, Nick knew then I had said Mosby, beaming at the recollection. In late summer, endorsements started rolling in, including from Rawlings-Blake, and prominent union groups.

The campaign has been acrimonious at times. Conaway accused Mosby of for distributing fliers that harped on questions about her residency. Conaway certified that a house in Baltimore County was her on paperwork qualifying the home for a Homestead Tax Credit. She has said she inadvertently made a paperwork mistake. Mosby drew attention to the issue with his campaign fliers.

Mosby shrugs off criticisms, saying voters responded to his persistence and were eager for a new face in City Hall. think this campaign and my victory is more than just the 7th he said. city is ready for new ideas. ready for julie.scharper@baltsun.com twitter.com/juliemore Nick Mosby is the Democratic City Council nominee for the 7th District, greets Johnny Jones, a student in Chris freshman seminar at the Civitas School. ALGERINA SUN PHOTO Mosby pledges be independent MOSBY, Frompage1 restaurant in Towson, said she would not travel to Cuba and does not support religious and academic groups going there either.

I board one of those flights? Absolutely said Quintana, who was born in Cuba. glad things are opening up for my country, but how many of these dollars will go to the people of Cuba? Probably North Baltimore resident Xiomara Mason, who was born in New York but lived in Cuba for about five years during childhood, takes a different view. Shehopes the BWI charters will increase the number of exempt travelers like missionaries, politicians and academics going to Cuba. more we isolate the people the less going to know about freedom and Mason said. think could melt away there, the more the people have Hauf expects robust interest in the three-hour, 15-minute flights from BWI.

He said the company, which has been organizing travel to Cuba for more than a decade, has seen strong interest from Maryland universities. There has also been strong demand from Catholic church groups and from Jews seeking to visit synagogues and maintain ties with that small but vibrant Jewish community, he said. Both Catholic Relief Services, based in Baltimore, and the Bethesda Jewish Congregation regularly perform aid work in Cuba. have been occasional study trips to Cuba over the said Dennis aspokesman for the Johns Hopkins University. it is possible that service from BWI would be a convenience for some Johns Hopkins Prospective travelers to Cuba can expect to jump through more hoops than those flying from BWI to such tourist destinations as London and Cancun.

Hauf said American citizens will have to secure Cuban visas, some categories of which his company can supply. Others, particularly group travel, may require an application at the Cuban Interests Section or consulate in Washington, he said. Americans traveling to Cuba also will need a license from the U.S. Treasury Department, he said. In some cases, that license can be obtained by signing an affidavit stating the purpose of the visit.

However, he said, travelers are expected to maintain a full itinerary of so-called purposeful activities during the trip. Hauf said that when travelers to Cuba come to BWI they can expect multiple check-ins and document verifications before boarding. He explained that the airline can face heavy fines if a passenger arrives in Havana without the documents in order. Because of the complicated requirements and hefty charges to land in Cuba, tickets aboard the Havana flights will not be cheap, Hauf said. He estimated the cost of a round-trip ticket at about $800, an amount he said would be comparable to the cost of flying to Florida and taking a charter from there.

The Island Travel flights are a further expansion of menu of international services still a weak spot for the airport despite its robust domestic growth. On Thursday, BWI added Freeport, Bahamas, as a twice-weekly destination aboard Vision Airlines. AirTran service to Aruba will start in a few weeks, and Condor Airlines has announced plans for twice-a- week flights to Frankfurt next year. new charter service will be a good opportunity for many organizations that were looking for this direct service to said BWI spokesman Jonathan Dean. Hauf said flights will leave Havana on Wednesday mornings and depart from BWI at midafternoon the same day.

Travelers who want to leave Cuba on another day of the week will be able to catch a flight to Florida and switch to a domestic carrier for the return to Baltimore. The planes themselves will be operated by Island partner, Sky King which will supply the crews and baggage handlers, Hauf said. Hauf does not expect the flights from BWI to be packed with people visiting relatives, as are flights out of Florida and New York. Just over 10,000 people in Maryland about 0.2 percent of the population identified themselves in the 2010 census as being ethnically Cuban. Quintana, the Havana Road owner, said she promised her father that she would not return to Cuba as long as a communist regime was in power, even though she has many family members living there.

cannot condone to until my country is Quintana said. Alicia Giro, who has been in the U.S. for about 50 years and worked for three decades in the Baltimore County public schools, agreed with sentiment that missionaries should not pursue travel to Cuba until communism ends there. want to do good and they want to go there, and then they see that there are all of these Giro said. is controlled.

People here are very naive. There is no freedom and no human But Mason said she has many Cuban relatives whom she has not seen since the early 1960s. She would relish the opportunity to see them, she said, if she could afford the cost and if her stay would not be a burden on them. Island Travel first sought permission to operate charters to Havana during the Clinton administration in 2000, Hauf said. But the company dropped the effort after President George W.

Bush came into office and ended a brief thaw in Cuban-American relations, he said. The company renewed efforts to gain approval as a charter operator after President Obama took office and secured landing rights from the Cuban government in July. Hauf said Island Travel would offer its first charter flight Sunday from Tampa, Fla. michael.dresser@baltsun.com steve.kilar@baltsun.com BWI to offer flights to Cuba but not for simple tourism CUBA, Frompage1 FROM PAGE ONE.