NEWS
January 1, 2014
As a parent of a child suffering for 14 years from a devastating severe mental illness - one that includes zero awareness and utter denial that the illness exists - I am bewildered why Maryland has failed to create an assisted outpatient treatment (community based) program ( "Close the mental health revolving door," Dec. 29). The pendulum has swung so sharply so as to protect personal rights that we have failed to help those who need it the most. Should we not require persons be given the vaccinations that are part of life's medical treatment protocol?
NEWS
By Arthur Hirsch, The Baltimore Sun | December 23, 2013
Christmas Eve worshipers at Columbia's Village of Oakland Mills on Tuesday will do the interfaith shuffle: Catholics departing the sanctuary with their hymnals, white altar cloth, candles and crucifix; Protestants entering with their own hymnals, white cloth, candles and cross. Then Protestants out, Catholics back in. So the ritual dance swings on, decades after people of many faiths first gathered to worship under one roof at the Oakland Mills Interfaith Center and similar spots in other Columbia villages.
NEWS
October 2, 2013
During the last decade, the percentage of people released from Maryland's prisons who re-offend within three years has dropped by more than 11 points - and by 3 points in just the last year. Considering the cost to society of the revolving door prison has become for too many in this country, that's a laudable achievement. Yet the fact that more than two in five who are released from prison will still get arrested or violate parole within three years shows just how much more progress remains to be made.
SPORTS
By Childs Walker and Chris Korman and The Baltimore Sun | May 16, 2013
The colt was a knucklehead, really. He had speed and endurance in his pedigree, but if you had polled his owners and his trainer a year ago, none would have predicted that he'd gallop in the same steps as his great-grandsire, 1977 Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew. When the gates dropped on his first race, Orb did not even break. Second race? Same thing. He did not win until the fourth and final race of his two-year-old campaign. But where other colts might level off or become erratic, Orb seemed to get better every day. “I've never seen anything like it,” said his trainer, Claude “Shug” McGaughey, who has been in the thoroughbred game more than 40 years.
NEWS
By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun | March 11, 2013
An investigation into an armed robbery in Dundalk on Monday morning briefly alarmed parents of children who attend a nearby school, resulting in an officer responding to the school to brief the principal on what happened. Sister Irene Pryle, principal of Our Lady of Hope St. Luke School, said the school was not affected and did not go into lockdown, as was rumored on social media. Officers had responded to an alley between Kavanagh and Kentley roads off Church Road shortly after 7:30 a.m. for a report of an armed robbery, police said.
NEWS
By Annie Linskey, The Baltimore Sun | December 9, 2012
Right now Rick Abbruzzese works at a desk a few feet from Gov. Martin O'Malley's office in the State House. In two weeks, he'll report a few blocks away to the Annapolis law firm Rifkin, Livingston, Levitan and Silver LLC, where he will likely lobby his soon-to-be former boss. Ditto for Joseph C. Bryce, a State House staffer for nearly two decades and O'Malley's influential chief legislative officer for the past six years. Last month he announced his departure and has moved into a new office at Manis, Canning and Associates where he'll cajole, pressure and maneuver on behalf of corporate clients.