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Baltimore 9/11 Memorial - I think we can do better

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Skyline - By Chris - Jul. 28 (Opinion) - Under construction right now at the foot of the Baltimore World Trade Center is the spot where Baltimore's memorial to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks will stand.

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Silencing critics – Baltimore’s approach to free speech?

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Brew - By Brew Editors - Jul. 05 (Opinion) - The right of assembly in a public place and the right of a free press – principles we celebrated yesterday over hot dogs and baked beans seemed to be under attack even before city officials took the extraordinary step of ejecting Tom Kiefaber from the Board of Estimates meeting last week.

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WHY DO WE KILL? - The murder of Melody Smith

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Investigative Voice - By Kelvin Sewell, Stephen Janis - Jul. 02 (Opinion) - What does it mean to be a cop? And why do we have a criminal justice system at all? Who are we supposed protect? The innocent? the helpless?

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Global warming doubters will hate delegate’s novel

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Maryland Reporter - By Len Lazarick - Jun. 27 (Review) - Hot enough for you? If you hate the notion that something drastic needs to be done about global warming, then you’ll hate Del. Dana Stein’s first novel, “Fire in the Wind.”

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Josh Kurtz: White Prince George’s

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Center Maryland - By Josh Kurtz - Jun. 21 (Opinion) - vestiges of another time – when whites were in the majority and held all the political power (and had a monopoly on unseemliness) are still in evidence.

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Baltimore Renaissance Project

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

What Weekly - By Justin Allen - Jun. 16 (Opinion) - Recently, we were asked to visit New Era Academy in Cherry Hill, by 7th grade teacher Jessica Gartner, to talk to the students and take part in a concept called The Baltimore Renaissance Project, a project that examines how the arts can be used as a vehicle for social change and cultural revolution. It was there that we were introduced to another organization whose aim is to counter negative stereotypes through creativity, positivity, and good will.

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Baltimore: Harnessing the Power of Homegrown Ideas

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Unsung Baltimore - By Kevin Griffin Moreno - Jun. 09 (Opinion) - Over 75 people crowded the Windup Space in the Station North Arts District on May 26 to listen to 15 speakers present their ideas about how to make Baltimore a better place to live and work.

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Chinese carry-out: O’Malley comes away with deliverables

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Maryland Reporter - By Len Lazarick - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - When U.S. leaders go overseas, the ideal scenario is to come away with “deliverables,” concrete accomplishments for the trip to show it was more than a junket. That’s what Gov. Martin O’Malley did Thursday in Shanghai when he announced that a Chinese pharmaceutical company, Tasly Group, would invest $40 million in Montgomery County.

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Memorial Day With Major Mark Zinno Live From Iraq

Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

105.7 The Fan - By Mark Davis, Ed Norris, Mark Zinno - May. 27 (Interview) - Co-host, friend and soldier, Major Mark Zinno, called The Norris & Davis Show to update us on Iraq (2 soldiers in his unit were killed this week), a video on Wounded Warriors he hopes gets 1 million views, and Memorial Day.

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E E Baltimore

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Crime - May. 12 (Opinion) - Emma Eileen was the name of the woman who was found in the Jones Falls. She was 66 and the wife of "prominent" bishop Wilbert Baltimore of Anne Arundel county.

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‘Enough is Enough!’

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore OUTloud - May. 06 (Editorial) - Leading members of the LGBT community and allies gathered and spoke of the need to end hate crimes committed against our people whereby transgender individuals are most vulnerable. The mood shifted from anger that expectedly accompanies such an attack, which was witnessed millions of times over the Internet, to upbeat, symbolizing the hope that with all elements of the community and elected officials finally coming together, that this nonsense could finally end.

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They’re Lovin’It

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore OUTloud - By Dana LaRocca - May. 06 (Opinion) - Merely knowing that she was transgender is not equivalent to attacking her because she is transgender. If that were the standard then almost all crimes against minorities would constitute hate crime.

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Baltimore reacts to news of Osama bin Laden’s death

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Afro - By AFRO Staff - May. 05 (Interview) - The news came just a little before midnight on March 1: Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the devastating terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was dead. After a decade of eluding capture by America’s and its allies’ forces, the al-Qaeda leader was killed in a U.S. special forces attack on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

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About Sunday night

Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Towerlight - By David Weissman - May. 04 (Opinion) - Sunday at 11:15 p.m., my mother called me. I was already half asleep from a long day and previous night. I’m not a kid anymore, and I have work in the morning. Then a text message: “SPECIAL FORCES GOT BIN LADEN.”

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America’s Jews

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Indypendent Reader - By Lawrence Grandpre - May. 02 (Opinion) - When I reflect on the relationship between Blacks and Jews, I go back to Freshman year of high school; where to get out of class, I found myself attending something called the BLEWS forum (a title I found stood for the combination of BLacks and jEWS) . To my surprise, I learned Baltimore was home to one of the largest populations of Orthodox Jews outside of Israel (in fact just down the street from my elementary school). And that numerous intuitions in the city, including the high school I attended, had been recipients of large amounts of funding from the Jewish community.

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Time for a Wake-Up Call

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Center Maryland - By Clayton A. Mitchell Sr. - Apr. 29 (Opinion) - We Americans have treated our longstanding preeminence as the world’s lone superpower with a degree of unction that is tantamount to a birthright. America is not accustomed to the flagellations of an equal economic rival.

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The End of the World as We Know It

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

What Weekly - By Justin Allen - Apr. 28 (Opinion) - By now we’re all familiar with the dot com bubble, the real estate bubble, and all the great calamity these seemingly isolated incidents have left in their wake. Friends, I’m here to declare that the delusional paradigms of the twentieth century have left us all perched precariously atop one monstrous bubble built by the inflated ego of opportunists and condoned in the name of convenience.

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Murder Victim Found Inside Slumlord-Owned Home

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Slumlord Watch - Apr. 28 (Opinion) - WBAL reported a body was found in a house fire on S. Monroe Street Wednesday morning. According to a City source on the scene, the body was dumped in the vacant home, wrapped in plastic.

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Walk a mile in these...

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Crime - Apr. 28 (Opinion) - Teen settles with parents of Christopher Jones for undisclosed sum - and $150 shoes.

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Prison Prose

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Michael Corbin - Apr. 27 (Review) - 'Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther' is an important book of history and humanity in the face of extremity. The book is testimony to a political history that has largely been erased, a prologue to a history of Baltimore that has yet to be written, and an extraordinary bearing of witness by a man denied due process who has spent more than 40 years in Maryland’s prisons.

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Lifer Lessons

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Van Smith - Apr. 27 (Interview) - Now 65 years old, Marshall “Eddie” Conway started serving a life sentence for murdering Baltimore police officer Donald Sager when he was 24. Back then, Conway was a postal worker and U.S. Army veteran. He was also a civil rights activist who, as a member of the NAACP and the Congress of Racial Equality, had helped organize efforts to better working conditions for African-Americans at a number of major employers in the Baltimore area. His most renowned role, though, was as Minister of Defense in the Maryland chapter of the Black Panther Party—a position that put him on the front lines of a successful government effort to undermine the party.

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The Assault on Chrissy Lee Polis: The Not So Innocent Bystanders

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Maya Rupert - Apr. 27 (Opinion) - Three minutes and 2 seconds. That's how long a McDonald's employee in Baltimore stood by on April 18, videotaping as two young customers attacked Chrissy Lee Polis, a 22-year-old transgender woman, punching her in the face, pulling her across the floor by her hair, and kicking her in the face until she appears to have a seizure.

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Kamenetz statement on McDonald’s attack

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Inside Charm City - Apr. 26 (Statement) - Last week’s beating of Chrissy Lee Polis in Rosedale once again reminds us of our responsibility as citizens to demand of ourselves and others the highest standards of decency and civility.

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HB235 Death Comes With Lessons Learned

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore OUTloud - By Dana LaRocca - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - “Today is not a day to celebrate,” cried voices from Equality Maryland as HB235, the Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination bill, was sent back to committee on the final day of the legislative session, thus killing the bill.

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Where Do We Migrate

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Paper - By Andrea Appleton - Apr. 20 (Review) - In these global times, human beings are becoming an increasingly migratory species. The current exhibition at UMBC’s Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture sets out to examine what that shift means for us.

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