Here's the gist of the recent report by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Conowingo Dam: Don't confuse a red herring with a red tide. The notion that all the pollution woes of the Chesapeake Bay could be heaped on one 86-year-old hydroelectric facility on the Lower Susquehanna River was...
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It now appears that City Hall not only lacks updated phone equipment but suffers a shortage of TV sets, radios and other modern communications gear. Nothing else could explain the Baltimore City Council's handling of plastic shopping bag legislation, which on Monday night morphed from an...
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President Barack Obama's declaration that the Federal Communications Commission should use its Title II authority under the Communications Act of 1934 to treat Internet service providers as "common carriers" sounds incredibly technical, but its philosophical and practical implications are quite...
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The encampments that have sprouted periodically around the lower end of the Jones Falls Expressway have always represented a small portion of the Baltimore's homeless population, but they have gotten a lot of attention from city officials. A succession of mayors have repeatedly attempted to...
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Fifty years ago this summer, a U.S. destroyer and four F-8 fighter jets exchanged fire with North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. Shortly after, Congress gave President Lyndon Johnson the authority to go to war against North Vietnam, and it was not long before combat troops...
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I was disappointed to see the editorial opposing the plastic shopping bag ban ("Bag it, City Council,Please do not allow the mayor to go unscathed with her review of fees and taxes ("Rawlings-Blake seeking study of Baltimore's taxes and fees," Nov. 12).
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Baltimore is a wonderful town with great people. I've recently moved here from the District of Columbia because of all the ways Baltimore isn't Washington. And regarding Baltimore's alleged inferiority complex, even some relatively small changes might make a big difference ("Promote this...
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Congratulations to the powers behind the facade of the Republican Party. They have done an excellent job of transforming a complicated society into a handful of issues which, despite factual evidence to the contrary, have proven to be all that was needed to galvanize their followers and cast...
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I am responding to your front-page article about dirt bikes in Baltimore ("In popular – but illegal – Baltimore dirt bike scene, female rider makes waves," Nov. 7).
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Just one observation after the midterm elections: There were many close races nationwide, and as is usually the case with midterm elections, a lot of registered voters stayed home.
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The GOP has become a haven of cranks and extremists driven by personal hatred of President Obama
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We should be asking how the Chinese have benefited from the worldwide terrorism threat and whether there's a lesson for the West in all of this
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Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe will likely be chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee
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We know Barack Obama is good at least one thing -- getting Barack Obama elected president of the United States. How good he is at being president of the United States is a subject of considerable debate. A less debatable proposition: He is just plain awful...
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Having missed a July deadline for reaching an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program, the six world powers party to the talks -- the United States, Russia, China, France, United Kingdom and Germany -- have set November 24 as...
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