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Tumultuous decades for a housing-aid activist
Vincent Quayle knows the corrosive effect of foreclosures well, sitting as he does at the helm of a nonprofit group that helps homeowners in trouble.
But he says the current foreclosure crisis is nothing compared to the damage wrought by the...Tags: Rentals, Condos and Houses, Executive Branch, Govans, Maryland
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'The Wire' has ended, but its talent is still being tapped
With Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's guilty plea last week to conspiracy to sell heroin, one question being asked by fans of "The Wire" is how other cast members of the Baltimore-based series are doing.
The answer: Several are doing just fine professionally....Tags: Armed Conflicts, Wood Harris, Minority Groups, Boardwalk Empire (tv program), Idris Elba
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Iowa group to fund suit against Maryland's congressional map
An Iowa-based foundation is financing a federal lawsuit that seeks to overturn Maryland's new congressional map on the grounds that it unconstitutionally splits minority communities. Christopher Rants, a Republican former speaker of the Iowa House who...Tags: Michael Steele, Regional Authority, Lawyers, Republican Party, Executive Branch
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Howard's school choice
One of the great ironies of education reform in Maryland is that for all the standardization and testing directed at the classroom, the one place where there's no clear-cut formula for success is how school boards should be selected. Some boards are...Tags: Nancy Grasmick, Teaching and Learning, Kevin Kamenetz, Ken Ulman, Howard County
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Race and the 'flash mob' attacks
Here's my question about the teenagers who have been attacking and robbing people on North Michigan Avenue in recent days: Were they Christians? And if so, what denomination? Baptist? Catholic? Seventh Day Adventist? Those may sound like ridiculous...Tags: Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Apple iPad, Magnificent Mile, Minority Groups
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Reflecting a national trend, Maryland's population grays
Driven by a sizable baby boomer population nearing retirement age, Maryland, like the rest of the nation, grew older in the past decade, but Baltimore bucked the trend, attracting more young adults as the number of its middle-age and retiree residents...Tags: Somerset County (Maryland), Health, Kent County, United States Census Bureau, Retirement
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Film helps African-Americans remember a lively Carr's Beach
Decades ago, a trip to segregated Ocean City presented far too many challenges for African-American families. Instead they went to a sandy peninsula near Annapolis, known as "the beach," for a day's outing.
Carr's Beach — its proper name —...Tags: Arts, Baltimore Hotels, Entertainment, Companies and Corporations, Fats Domino
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BSO salutes legacy of Harriet Tubman with new composition
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is all about brand-new this month. Two weeks after premiering David T. Little's Baltimore-inspired "Charm," the BSO is set to premiere another commissioned work — "Chuphshah! Harriet's Drive to Canaan," by James...Tags: Arts, Auction Service, Dorchester County, Harriet Tubman, Morgan State University
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Tubman Underground Railroad center on Shore gets funding
Harriet Tubman has long inspired a deep sense of pride among Marylanders, especially in the rural communities of the Eastern Shore, where the former slave was born and led dozens to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
While her story is taught to...Tags: Arts, Natural Resources, Lobbying, Harriet Tubman, Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland)
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Gay marriage: A tale of two states
The storylines were similar: A divided state legislature grapples with the emotional question of whether to allow same-sex couples to marry.
But several plot twists — an ambitious Democratic governor as the main character, a multimillion-dollar...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Voting, Republican Party, Allan H. Kittleman, Social Issues
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Tropico Perspective: How many mistakes can we live with?
There is a compelling theory of memory that if you want to remember something for a while, you must be reminded of it right about the time your mind is about to forget it. Considering this nation’s news cycles and short attention span, now is...Tags: Rick Perry, Crimes, Murder, Criminals, Chuck Norris
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Education Matters: What unites, rather than divides, us
Editor's Note: Numerous instances of plagiarism have been discovered in Dan Kimber’s “Education Matters” column, which ran in the News- Press from September 2003 to September 2011. In those columns where plagiarism has been found, a...Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Gays and Lesbians, Jeffrey L Dahmer, Cultural Development, Native Americans
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