Larry Young

Happy Hanukkah. Constitutional crisis. Merry Christmas.The nerve of that man, going the last mile to bring peace to the Middle East, just to distract Americans from what really matters.Other people tell Baltimore what to do, but George Soros is putting his money where his mouth is, which is unheard of.Now you know why Larry Young didn't run last election, but he might win the next.Pub Date: 12/16/98

Cheer up. Larry Young is on the way back.The CIA missed India's nuclear preparations because it didn't bother to listen to what the winners of India's election were saying.Milosevic learned his lesson in Croatia and Bosnia (mass murder, destruction and ethnic cleansing work) and is applying it to Kosovo.Grass is growing again in the Chesapeake. No drought there.Pub Date: 6/04/98

It just would not be the Maryland Senate without Larry Young.Suharto agrees with whoever pounded his table last. There is nothing sick or senile in that.Britain and Ireland have no problem agreeing on Northern Ireland. The people who have to live there won't have it.Explain again how it was really global warming that froze Canada.Pub Date: 1/14/98

The rule of law and sanctity of constitutional institutions are more important than who wins. Q. When is a public record not a public record? A. When the Maryland judiciary finds it inconvenient. Larry Young could do for the NAACP what he did for the Maryland Senate. If the American people are not able to cull the deer herd with guns, we'll just have to do it with cars.

Louis Freeh is the Republicans' best hope since Colin Powell.How about letting anyone willing to build a hotel without public money go right ahead and build it?British record keepers say 1997 is the hottest year ever, but after what the global warming conference did and didn't do, they ain't hardly seen nothing yet.Larry Young for governor?Pub Date: 12/12/97

Marlins: Gary Sheffield has walked an NL-leading 32 times.Mets: Carlos Baerga is 2-for-15 with runners in scoring position.Pirates: Al Martin has reached base safely in his past 13 games.Rangers: Juan Gonzalez has six homers at Jacobs Field, second-most by an opponent to Mark McGwire, who has seven.Rockies: Larry Young has reached base in 29 of 30 games.Tigers: The pitching staff has given up 23 homers in 31 games this season, lowest total in the AL.Pub Date: 5/07/97

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Raymond F. Schoenke sought yesterday to tie Gov. Parris N. Glendening to the activities of former state Sen. Larry Young, who was expelled for violations of state ethics laws.Saying the governor and Young worked together to benefit health care businesses, Schoenke urged Glendening to release "secret" documents pertaining to PrimeHealth, a Prince George's County health maintenance organization.The Sun reported Wednesday that PrimeHealth was assisted by Young and the state health department in its effort to win state business.

An FBI agent dressed as a bellhop led agents into a downtown Baltimore hotel Thursday night, where two suspects in an armored-car robbery were arrested and more than $300,000 was seized, an FBI spokesman reported yesterday.The men were charged in connection with a Nov. 16 armored car robbery in Charlotte, N.C. A Wells Fargo armored-car driver was knocked unconscious and more than $304,000 was stolen. The FBI identified the suspects as two Charlotte men, Christopher Dwayne Matthews and Kevin Prince, both age 20.Mr.

On this day, the governor of Maryland prepares his State of the State address and hopes that no one has any memory. He and Larry Young were once pretty good pals. He and Young had a mutual friend in Merit Behavioral Care Corp., which attempted to buy them both. Now Larry Young is gone from Annapolis, and Merit is part of the reason, and its shadow still hovers over Parris Glendening.Whatever this governor's virtues, there is the continuing sense of a man outrunning his own sneakiness: the secret pension deal, the money that arrived under the table from racetrack interests, the heavy-handed fund raising.

IN HIS brilliant novel, "The Invisible Man," Ralph Ellison angrily exhorted, "We are here, white people! Look at us! See us! Appreciate us! Be aware of us! And if your hearts grant permission, relate to us."That appeal is as poignant today as it was when it was written in 1947. Maybe more so now. I thought about it as I followed the sad saga of Larry Young, the former state senator who was kicked out of the Maryland General Assembly on corruption charges. The case also reminded me of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the late New York City congressman who was expelled by his colleagues some three decades ago over ethics accusations.