NEWS
By Brett Schwartz | February 29, 2012
I was jumped last Friday night. Around 11 p.m., while reaching for my keys to enter my apartment building, I was grabbed from behind, hit in the face, thrown to the ground and punched repeatedly a few feet from my door. My teenage assailants surprisingly made no effort to take anything from me and ran off laughing as I gathered my bearings and staggered inside. Though I had a fat lip, a bruised cheek and a pounding headache, my encounter left me with no lasting scars. Instead, my experience put me in a reflective mood.
EXPLORE
February 14, 2012
Editor: In your editorial "Let Them Eat Cake", you, Mr. Kennedy, display for the public at large your curmudgeonly nature, your abject ignorance and your vitriolic bitterness. To compare teachers who have not receive their negotiated salaries for three years to Marie Antoinette is patently offensive and repugnant. You should be ashamed of yourself. Your proclivity to use your position as editor of the only local paper in Harford County to lambast the county workers and teachers is shameful. Have you no ethics?
NEWS
January 25, 2012
The Sun editorial recommending the "stages of grief" from Elizabeth Kubler-Ross to deal with the Raven's recent playoff loss is one way of looking at the situation ("Stages of grief," Jan. 24). One can dwell on the stages of denial, anger, bargaining, etc. to get some form of relief, but there is a better way to deal with the game. Look at it this way: The Ravens did not lose in our minds. They won. They beat the Patriots in their home field. The Lee Evans catch was a catch, and we had a touchdown.
SPORTS
By Edward Lee | December 10, 2011
When middle linebacker Gary Brackett was lost for the season in September after requiring surgery on his left rotator cuff, many expected the Indianapolis Colts defense to suffer. True to form, the unit has under-performed this season, but Brackett's replacement has been stellar. Pat Angerer, a second-round pick in 2010, has made 111 tackles, which ranks second this season only to the Washington Redskins' London Fletcher. The 6-foot, 235-pound Angerer is averaging 9.3 tackles and is on pace to finish with 148. Angerer may have stunned many within the NFL, but his production hasn't had the same effect on Marshal Yanda, the Ravens' starting right guard who spent one season with Angerer at the University of Iowa.
NEWS
By John Fritze, The Baltimore Sun | November 24, 2011
Legislation drafted by Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin to update the 1917 Espionage Act has angered public disclosure advocates who say the proposal would make it harder for federal employees to expose government fraud and abuse. The bill would clarify a murky area of law to ensure that anyone who publicly leaks classified material could be prosecuted criminally, which is not necessarily the case today. The proposal also would make it illegal for government employees to violate nondisclosure agreements.
NEWS
November 19, 2011
The "Occupy" movement is too important to disband, though you're absolutely correct in urging them to focus their efforts on practical goals ("Time to grow up," Nov. 17). I've spent time at McKeldin Square, and I spoke briefly at the Save the Post Office rally on Sunday. But my overall impression of the encampment remains the same: It's retro Woodstock. There are many valid issues, yet with few exceptions most "occupiers" cannot explain why they're angry. It's becoming little more than a nostalgic hippie adventure.