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Need to get something off your chest? Tell us and you could see your rant in a future issue of b. Send your rants to Twitter ( @bthesite ), text "RANT" to 70701 or call the hotline at 410.332.6660. I wanna say thank you to the person who found my license and mailed it back to me. Good to know somebody here has common sense. Have you noticed Subway commercials always make it look so good? And advertisers on the radio talk about “meat piled up,” but when you get there, they don't want to give you any meat.

John Lindner reviews a kosher Subway in Pikesville. What, you were expecting Arbutus? John's review, which appears in Monday's Sunrise section, takes a look at the offerings at the area's first kosher Subway outlett -- there are others in Los Angeles, Cleveland, Chicago, Kansas City and Queens, N.Y. According to the store's website , the store is really, truly kosher ("under the supervision of the Star-K") and not just kosher-style. Familiar Subway offerings are here but also salami, corned beef and schwarma.

If you're a fan of big chain sub shops, you've probably got your favorite brand, one or more favorite sandwiches and your own peculiar combination of add-ons — like extra cheese, more olives, or three fistfuls of pickles. After that, there's not a whole heck of a lot to say about the franchises, because if you're inclined to visit, you've very likely checked them out already. And have, moreover, made up your mind. But the Subway at 706 Reisterstown Road in Pikesville offers specials you won't see in most other locations.

Is Ellicott City's Main Street about to turn into Route 40? Depends on whom you ask, but some merchants in the quaint and quirky, fun and funky little enclave the Chamber of Commerce likes to call Historic Ellicott City have worried aloud that the arrival of a Subway sandwich shop in their midst spells trouble. You can understand the concern. Main Street's stock in trade is small, independently owned antique shops, art stores, bistros and such in old stone buildings left over from a former mill town.

A man's cane, not arm, was caught in a door of a moving subway train about noon Thursday, according to a Baltimore Fire Department spokesman who said investigators reviewed surveillance video of the incident. The incident occurred in the Charles Center station, below Baltimore and Charles streets. The spokesman, Chief Kevin Cartwright, had reported that the man was dragged 10 feet before falling onto the station platform. He was treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, but had no obvious injuries.

Sometimes, the worst part of public transportation is having to conform to someone else's timetable. But the U.K. supermarket chain Tesco has found an innovative way to maximize the "unavoidable delay" of commuting. The company installed virtual grocery stores on Seoul subway platforms to allow customers to shop while they wait for their trains. People take a picture with their smartphones of the products they want, and the items are delivered soon after they arrive home --- eliminating the need to use up limited time after work or on weekends to acquire food.

A 25-year-old man was found shot in the hand Sunday afternoon near the Penn North subway station, Baltimore City police said. Police spokesman Jeremy Silbert said the unidentified victim was taken to a local hospital. He said the incident occurred in the 1800 block of Presstman St., though it had initially been reported as North Avenue and Woodyear Street.

As a long time resident, I am against the opening of a chain Subway restaurant in Historic Ellicott City ("Subway franchise's entry riles Ellicott City," Feb. 24). Do we not have enough access to Subway restaurants in our surrounding neighborhoods? Do we really want the unique, quaint atmosphere of Main Street to be turned into just another homogenous strip mall? We already have a pawn shop, complete with ultra-tacky walking billboards, as well as numerous high density housing developments planned just around the corner, proposing to bring hundreds of new residents to the area.

First, a man wearing a sandwich board advertising a new cash-for-gold store raised eyebrows along historic Ellicott City's eclectic Main Street. Now, a laborer is emptying debris from a former bakery that in May, according to a small sign in the window, will become a Subway sandwich franchise — the first chain store in recent memory. It's all very disturbing to some of the more protective independent local merchants, craftspeople and visitors who come to the old mill town for its quirky appeal.

While analysts will debate for days just how many thousands of people attended the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the National Mall on Saturday, if the packed-to-capacity stops on the Washington subway system were any indication, a good number of the attendees were Marylanders. The rally, staged by comedians and talk show hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, was announced in September on Sewart's "The Daily Show" as an attempt to provide a forum to the millions of moderates whose voices, he said, were getting drowned out by extremists on both sides of the political spectrum.