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Overwhelmed Internet users choose to unplug — for a little while

Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Gus Sentementes - May. 15 (News) - Consciously avoiding using the Web may seem impossible to many in this era of information overload. Researchers on the issue say addiction to information may be similar in some ways to the effect that certain drugs have on the human brain — and some people may need to take disciplined breaks from their gadgets.

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Matthew Snyder's mom: The right to freedom of speech is absolute

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Julie Francis - Mar. 14 (Comment) - Five years ago, my son's father asked me to join him in bringing a lawsuit against the Westboro Baptist Church. I declined for the following reasons.

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St. Patrick's parade brings out Baltimore's Irish spirit - Baltimore Sun (blog)

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - Mar. 13 (Opinion) - msnbc.comSt. Patrick's parade brings out Baltimore's Irish spiritBaltimore Sun (blog)A gust of wind, mischievous as a leprechaun, blew 3-year-old Faith Rose's shiny green bowler hat into the middle of Charles Street on Sunday during the start of the 56 t h annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. ...Irish heritage takes center stageCumberland Times-NewsMd. Gov. Martin O'Malley to march in annual St. Patrick's Day parade in BaltimoreThe RepublicMetro Detroit hails all things Irish at annual St. Pat's paradeThe Detroit NewsABC2 News (blog)all 250 news articles »

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Made (once again) in America

Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Gus G. Sentementes - Feb. 27 (News) - When NovaSom Inc. was looking to produce its sleep apnea diagnostic kits, the Glen Burnie-based company didn't look to factories in Asia or Mexico. Instead, it found a manufacturer right off the Beltway in Woodlawn.

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Does Watson put our future in jeopardy?

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Alexander E. Hooke - Feb. 24 (Opinion) - Woe to those who, to the very end, insist on regulating the movement that surpasses them with the narrow mind of the mechanic who changes a tire.

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President Obama discusses education budget plan at Baltimore-area school

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Jean Marbella, Liz Bowie - Feb. 14 (News) - President Barack Obama's motorcade arrived at 10:10 a.m. Monday at Parkville Middle School and Center of Technology in Baltimore County, passing about 100 spectators who lined the streets near the school. Among the friendlier throngs were a group of protesters who called for him to, as their signs said, "STOP Reckless Spending." The president was in town to announce educational priorities in his 2012 budget.

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Group rebuilding Oliver neighborhood one green home at a time

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Nancy Jones Bonbrest - Feb. 12 (News) -

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Law aims to protect online shoppers from shady marketers

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Eileen Ambrose - Feb. 08 (Opinion) - Many consumers have been leery of shopping online, and they may have had reason to worry.

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Chesapeake oysters doing better

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Timothy B. Wheeler - Feb. 07 (News) -

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Healing Baltimore's harbor

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - Jan. 30 (News) - Ray Bahr ought to be taking it easy. He's 75 and retired after a successful career as a cardiologist. Instead, the Canton resident finds himself prowling alleys in East Baltimore on the lookout for illegally dumped trash and goading city officials to clean up mini-landfills in back of abandoned houses.

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Government bans traditional cribs

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Patricia Callahan, Ellen Gabler - Dec. 15 (News) - In an effort to eliminate hidden hazards that caused babies throughout the country to die in their cribs, the nation's top regulator of children's products today passed the toughest safety rules for cribs in history, including a ban on the sale and manufacture of models with sides that drop down.

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Baltimore County plots course to end homelessness

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Mary Gail Hare - Sep. 23 (News) - On any given day, 550 men, women and children are living in one of Baltimore County's homeless shelters, officials say. Counselors receive an average of 40 calls daily from those asking for beds. Hundreds are living on county streets, sleeping in doorways or on steam grates. Nearly 2,000 homeless children attended county schools last year.

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Green careers training center opens

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Lorraine Mirabella - Jun. 10 () -

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Gay man is victimized twice, by killer and state

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Peter Hermann - Jan. 18 (News Report) - He was shot in September 2008 while walking hand-in-hand with his longtime partner, Alex Chavarria, on Howard Street in Mount Vernon. Witnesses told police that a young man, previously overheard saying, "I'm going to kill myself a gay tonight," stopped to ask Footman a question or bum a cigarette, and then shot him twice. Baltimore police classified the shooting as a possible hate crime but have not made any arrests. Footman spent months at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, then at a rehabilitation center, then at home. In July, he returned to Shock Trauma for more surgery, and he died Nov. 9. Glen H. Footman, a true victim if there ever was one in Baltimore, died too soon to get any money from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board. And because Footman, 52, had no spouse and no dependents, there is no one for the state to give the money to. Footman and Chavarria, together for 13 years, could not marry in Maryland. And had they been legally wed in one of the few states that recognizes gay marriage, it is unclear whether Chavarria could receive compensation here. Maryland's attorney general is working on an opinion as to whether this state would recognize unions that are legal elsewhere.

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Reform, not overreach

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Andy Harris - Oct. 06 (Opinion) - Perhaps the most significant element of reform involves bringing market forces to bear on health care insurers. Creating a health care "exchange" allows for affordable, accessible and portable insurance for millions of Americans. An "exchange" would let everyone choose their health care insurance from a broad range of options and allow their employer to help pay for it. Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance.

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Reviving an option

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - Oct. 04 (Editorial) - As discouraging as it was to watch certain members of the Senate Finance Committee treat the concept of affordable health insurance coverage as America's own Bolshevik Revolution last week, hope for a modicum of common sense in the U.S. Congress springs eternal. The battle over the public option isn't over yet, as there is at least one more card to play. As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has already promised, no matter what comes out of the full Senate, the health care reform bill approved by the House of Representatives will contain the public option. What happens in the inevitable conference committee is anyone's guess.

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Web site details black history in W. Md.

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Elizabeth Malby - Feb. 28 (Special Report) - Lorraine Wells was about to give up. More than 10 years of searching for clues about the now-deceased father she never knew while growing up in Cumberland had produced nothing. Then the 46-year-old Oakland, Calif., resident got a call from her brother Jeffrey, who lives in Cumberland, about a Web site that chronicles Western Maryland's black history. The Allegany County African American History collection comprises more than 400 images, includes information dating back 200 years - and was created by an amateur historian who happens to be white. Dozens of volunteers helped Albert Feldstein of Cumberland create the site. In addition to etching Western Maryland black history for the world to see, the site has enabled those who have moved away to reconnect with their past.

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History's biggest bailout needs disclosure -

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Jay Hancock - Dec. 27 (Opinion) - Last week the government dispatched more of your money into the abyss. Through its "Term Auction Facility," the Federal Reserve lent banks $63 billion - nearly half the cost of the entire savings and loan bailout from the 1980s, or what it takes to fight in Iraq for six months. Who got the money? At what rates? What collateral did they put up? How will the proceeds be spent? The Fed isn't saying, and it's fighting attempts to shed light. The Treasury Department, distributing its own bailout billions, is almost as clammed up. Never has the country spent so much taxpayer money, so quickly, with so little disclosure. The bailout blackout threatens to match the information failure over mortgages and derivatives that caused this mess in the first place.

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2,000 Marines face longer Afghan tour

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By David Wood - Jul. 04 (News Report) - In a decision reflecting the shortage of available combat troops, more than 2,000 Marines fighting the Taliban will be kept in Afghanistan 30 days beyond their original seven-month tour, the Marine Corps said yesterday.

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Getting on board

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Michael Dresser - Jun. 08 (News Analysis) - t was June 2001, and the price of a gallon of regular gasoline had soared to $1.68 a gallon. It was so ridiculous that many folks said to heck with it, we'll take mass transit. And they did. There were 5 million more transit trips taken in the United States that month than the previous June. But by June 2002, with travel curtailed in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, gas was down to a less burdensome $1.39. Public transit lost 23 million rides from the same month a year before as commuters returned to their cars.

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John McCain: 'ABBA fan'

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:31:03 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Mark Silva - Jun. 07 (News Analysis) - That's what we're learning today at the candidate's new campaign blog, The McCain Report. Of course, the Abba anthem displayed there, Take a Chance on Me, provides the perfect soundtrack for the headline on the blog: "Take a Chance on ...

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War and service: Remembrance and debate

Sat, 24 May 2008 06:53:57 -0700

Baltimore Sun - May. 24 (Opinion) - If Americans are divided over the war, they are aligned in honoring the service of the fallen. Yet service itself could become a campaign issue in the months ahead.

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Bush ignoring home front: Democrats

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Matthew Hay Brown - May. 03 (Opinion) - "Democrats have a mission: strengthen the economy, invest in America, bring our troops home. And we will not quit until that mission is truly accomplished.

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Hopkins restores access to health site

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Sun - By Stephanie Desmon - Apr. 05 (News Report) - Johns Hopkins officials restored full access yesterday to a reproductive health Web site funded by the government, after learning that searches containing the word "abortion" were being intentionally restricted and that thousands of studies were being hidden from easy view. The change came after librarians and women's health advocates flooded the blogosphere - and e-mail boxes at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - with complaints of censorship....one research librarian was told the action was not a mistake - with the implication that it could be related to Bush administration rules restricting dissemination of information about abortions in foreign countries. Dr. Michael J. Klag, Bloomberg's dean, said ... he would launch an inquiry into why the decision was made to limit searches.

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Bay & Environment: Climate cloak and dagger

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Tom Pelton - Dec. 20 (Opinion) - In the morning, President Bush signed a bill boosting fuel efficiency. ...At 6:15 p.m. ...EPA [press agents] were frantically calling reporters across the country, informing them of a hastily-arranged telephone press... [regarding refusal to accept CA emission standards.]. So why would both decisions be announced in the same day, as part of the same news cycle? [NRDC's] Doniger speculated..."It looks like there was a quid pro quo...they (the Bush administration) said you're going to have to live with the fuel economy standards... But we are going to keep you from having to live with the (tougher) California standards."

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