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Susan P. Munday, 67, Fort Howard homemaker Susan P. Munday, a Fort Howard homemaker, died Saturday of a heart attack at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She was 67. Mrs. Munday, who was also known as Peggy Susan, had volunteered at Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Fort Howard for many years and during the summer sold produce at Bauer's roadside stand on North Point Road. Susan P. Lowman was born in Valdese, N.C., where she graduated from high school. She was married in 1950 to Charles E. Munday Sr., a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp.

For 26 years, the ornate Tiffany skylight that once adorned the old Court of Appeals building in Annapolis has seen neither sun nor sky. Sen. Robert R. Neall, who remembers its brilliance in its original location, thought it was a shame that the century-old dome was tucked away in the ceiling of a legislative hearing room with only artificial lighting to illuminate it. Largely as a result of Neall's efforts, the skylight began its journey back to...

Sen. Neall's party-hop was dishearteningState Sen. Robert Neall's explanation for his switch to the Democratic Party is disheartening. It is a perfect example of why so many people have a cynical attitude towards politics.Mr. Neall switched political parties, yet has the audacity to tell us that it was not a political decision. This sort of nonsensical rambling makes Mr. Neall a perfect fit for the Maryland Democratic Party.As a proud Maryland Republican, I am glad he left. The Republican Party has no room for deceitful politicians who twist words and try to manipulate public opinion.

BOBBY Neall called his move a misery reduction. He found out theres precious little room for a moderate -- even one with a very conservative resume on budget-and-tax issues -- in Marylands Republican Party.That's why Mr. Neall-- former Republican minority leader in the House of Delegates, former Republican Anne Arundel County executive, current Republican state senator -- quit the state GOP two days ago to join the states majority party, the Democrats.The loss of state Sen. Robert Neall to the Democratic Party is a crushing blow for state Republicans, though many GOP activists are happily shouting, good riddance, because they never liked his willingness to broker deals with Democrats and to put problem-solving ahead of party-building.

State Sen. Robert R. Neall became a Democrat yesterday, declaring that he had been made to feel increasingly "uncomfortable and unwelcome" in the Republican Party he served for almost three decades.The veteran legislator and former Anne Arundel County executive, long a target of complaints from GOP conservatives, said he had made "not a political decision but a personal one."Neall, 51, said that in the Democratic Party "there's less of an expectation of adherence to straight down-the-line litmus-test-type issues."

In a significant blow to the Maryland Republican Party, widely respected state Sen. Robert R. Neall plans to announce his switch to the Democratic Party tomorrow, according to several sources.Neall, a fiscal moderate who served as Anne Arundel County executive and was often mentioned as a possible gubernatorial candidate, has told friends he has grown uncomfortable in a Republican Party that has moved increasingly to the right.Neall declined to discuss his plans, saying he would issue a statement tomorrow.

TWO SENATORS from Anne Arundel County rowed against the tide of capitulation in the waning days of the legislative session. They defied Gov. Parris N. Glendening in this, the season of threatened retribution.Many delegates and senators voted along with the chief executive for fear that opposition could mean the loss of projects they hoped to carry home to constituents.Neall and JimenoNot Republican Robert R. Neall and Democrat Philip C. Jimeno.Mr. Neall blocked the governor at a couple of critical junctures.

Maryland's legislature has 188 members, but important issues are often settled by just one. Consider the recent exploits of Anne Arundel County Sen. Robert R. Neall.The veteran Republican lawmaker conducted two successful filibusters during the General Assembly session that ended at midnight Monday, frustrating Gov. Parris N. Glendening and the Democratic-controlled state Senate.A master of the state budget, a gifted speaker and an able parliamentary tactician, Neall called on all of these skills to cut the governor's proposed cigarette tax increase and to defeat Glendening's effort to put 8,000 university employees under the state's new collective-bargaining law.During the weekend, Neall led Republican and Democratic senators in an attack on the tax increase that Glendening had pegged at $1 pack.

Anne Arundel voters took to the polls yesterday to select from a healthy mix of incumbents, longtime community activists and political neophytes in primary races for the General Assembly. With results from 31 percent of the county's 170 precincts, incumbents appeared to be on the way to winning their parties' nominations in all of the contested races. If past primary elections are an indication, fewer than 40 percent of the county's 244,890 registered voters would have gone to the polls by the end of the day. In the Republican primary for the District 33 Senate seat, incumbent Sen. Robert R. Neall was leading challenger William A. Scott with 64 percent of the vote to Scott's 36 percent.

Proposed mall in Hanover isn't 'smart growth'The Anne Arundel County Council's recent 7-0 vote to accommodate a new megamall in Hanover sets in motion the likely destruction of at least 380 forested acres.If economic development is truly the county's goal, why not re-develop abandoned ghost malls already sitting on top of paved acreage?Harundale, Parole and Whitehall's U.S. 50-301 are examples of neglected spots long overdue for creative renovation and beautification.The council took a position inconsistent with truly "smart" long-range growth.