For Grasmick, decision boiled down to kids

IN THE DARK hours of Monday morning, the answer came to Nancy Grasmick, and all of the agonizing was done. She recalled all those long dreary nights when she haunted the legislative back rooms at the State House. She remembered Parris Glendening trying to tell her how to run the state's schools over the past eight years. She realized something. She didn't want to be like one of those people.

Michael Olesker

June 20, 2002