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Fewer screenings doesn't pass smell test

Susan Reimer: Top issue: Mammogram guidelines

Fewer screenings doesn't pass smell test

Medicine trumps politics

The recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that mammograms not be given routinely to...

 

Mammogram guidelines are flawed

I am a physician in practice. I have been reading the new mammogram guidelines from the so called government panel of experts, and I have...

Oprah's plans

Oprah Winfrey has announced she will be ending her daytime talk show in 2011, after its 25th season. Will she be able to replicate her remarkable success when she moves on to launch her own cable channel?

  • Yes
  • No
  • Not sure
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Kevin Cowherd

Kevin Cowherd

Are Ravens really a playoff team? - November 23, 2009 - Joe Flacco looked like he had just been in a street fight.

Jay Hancock

Jay Hancock

Economic refrain: 'We're forever blowing bubbles' - November 20, 2009 - Thursday's stock market decline was just what Ben Bernanke needed.

Rob Kasper

Rob Kasper

Cranberry condiment conundrum - November 18, 2009 - On a day that is supposed to bring families together, this dish has a tendency to push them apart.

Jacques Kelly

Jacques Kelly

The sights and smells of Thanksgivings past - November 21, 2009 - My mother endorsed Thanksgiving because she felt it was an unemotional holiday. It didn't carry all the...

Mike Preston

Mike Preston

Colts had flaws, but Ravens had more - November 23, 2009 - When a team has a first-and-goal at the 1-yard line and can't score a touchdown, it deserves to lose....

Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer

Skipped on Skype, forgone on Facebook - November 16, 2009 - A friend posted a message on Facebook asking if anyone knew what Skype was, if anyone had Skype and...

Dan Rodricks

Dan Rodricks

As Dixon trial nears end, a demand for 'equal justice' - November 19, 2009 - I am sticking with my instinct: Lindbergh Carpenter Jr. could turn out to be the most effective witness for the prosecution in State v....

Peter Schmuck

Peter Schmuck

Their cushion gone, Ravens now must face a hard reality - November 22, 2009 - Ravens fans knew a long time ago that they would be staring down the barrel at Peyton Manning this...

Thomas F. Schaller

Thomas F. Schaller

Tough choice awaits Ehrlich as time slips away - November 10, 2009 - On Saturday afternoon, I attended the 12th annual Annapolis Tug-of-War. Every autumn, locals string a...

Ron Smith

Ron Smith

Fort Hood massacre shows how political correctness can kill - November 13, 2009 - The massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, last week has shined a harsh, unremitting light on the hold that...

Welcome shipping news

Our view: A 50-foot-deep berth and a huge financial investment in the port make a long-term lease with Ports America look like a golden opportunity for Baltimore

Hungry mouths

Our view: The recession has left millions of Americans unsure where their next meal is coming from at a time when food pantries and soup kitchen cupboards are lean

Welcome back, Ms. Pink

The giant pink flamingo that hung over Baltimore's Cafe Hon until it was netted last month by an overzealous city housing inspector is back. We're glad to see the...

A brief treatise on pie

Most people think of Thanksgiving as Turkey Day. Maybe it's my Midwestern roots, but no matter how succulent the bird, I have room in my heart for only one love on...

Friday news quiz

Know who bought the penthouse at the Ritz-Carlton?

Honoring black baseball pioneers

Baltimore, long a center of African-American culture on the East Coast, is a natural home for the region's first Negro League baseball museum, and from a...

A public investment

When Gov. Martin O'Malley brought his latest package of budget cuts to the Board of Public Works on Wednesday, some of the loudest objections came from Maryland's...

Awash in gift cards

Now that the prosecution and defense have rested in Mayor Sheila Dixon's trial on charges she stole gift cards meant for the poor, at least one thing is certain: The...

Waves, wind and water

The remnants of Tropical Storm Ida and an early season nor'easter combined to pack a one-two wallop that lashed at Ocean City, along with much of the East Coast,...

The lax taxman

It's hard to decide which is worse: the notion that dozens of Baltimore City parking lots might not be paying the taxes they owe, or the fact that the city is so...

Beans & Bread destabilizes the community

Doesn't it occur to this city the stabbing at Beans & Bread this week is the reason local residents are opposed to that facility's expansion? I wish The Sun would investigate all neighborhoods and...

Obama's debt epiphany

Live from Beijing, President Barack Obama has apparently had a newfound revelation that spending too much money to help revive the economy could undermine a fragile U.S. recovery and have a...

No amount of City Hall corruption is OK

In response to a comment left online, and printed in The Sun, by one Larry G.: What do you mean by "stop crying over this. This is a -1 on a scale of 1-10"?

With ICC, we're paying for a road we'll never use

The ICC is intended to be a highway for rich people ("ICC was always intended to exclude most people," Nov. 2) and is supposed to be paid for with exorbitant tolls. Now we are told that we will all...

Time for government to invest in jobs

In his op-ed "Democrats need to focus on jobs" (Nov 17), John Nichols cites the very disheartening unemployment rate of 10.2 percent, but his analysis would be more complete if he offered more...

Palestinians can't make an end run to the U.N.

Your Associated Press article: "Palestinians to ask U.N. for state" (Nov. 16) caught my attention. I immediately thought, how about asking Israel since they are the ones who will be threatened by...

Business needs to fight unemployment tax increase

With the economy still struggling and unemployment levels high, we ask which should concern Marylanders the most: the balance in the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund or jobs? The state labor...

Stabbing shows Beans and Bread doesn't belong in Fells Point

The Sun's reporting of a stabbing at Beans and Bread ("Homeless center worker charged in stabbing," Nov. 18) illustrates the difficulties we in the Fell's Point area have endured as a result of the...

We need cap and trade for the bay

David Berry's op-ed "Focusing on bay's small ecosystems makes conservation more manageable" (Nov. 16) makes several critically correct points. First, problems can only be solved by local watershed...

Time for government to invest in jobs

In his op-ed "Democrats need to focus on jobs" (Nov 17), John Nichols cites the very disheartening unemployment rate of 10.2 percent, but his analysis would be more complete if he offered more...

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Tips for an insurer

If there are two groups of people held in disregard these days, it's anyone who works for an insurance company or the government. That makes those employed by the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund,...

Guns and the mentally ill

While the mentally ill this country face numerous inequities -- a lack of adequate health care and employment opportunities and ostracism from the mainstream of society are among the more obvious...

D.C. archdiocese oversteps its bounds

The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. went too far when it threatened the City Council last week that it would halt its social service programs in the capital if...

With no warning

Our view: Odorless carbon monoxide gas can be deadly; Balt. County should require all rental units to install detectors, and it should study reported alarms for patterns

Smoke-free U

Our view: Towson University did the right thing by banning smoking everywhere on campus; what's taking all of Maryland's other colleges and universities so long?

A chance for redemption

We treat children differently from adults in all sorts of ways because we recognize they are not fully formed intellectually, emotionally or ethically. We restrict...

Prosecuting terror

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. made the right decision to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four accomplices in criminal court in New...

Parking payouts

Our view: Something's amiss when a $52 ticket mushrooms into a $1,000 fine, but weaning Baltimore off such ill-gotten gains is going to be easier said than done

Courage on campus

In deciding not to become the first university system in the nation to adopt a policy about how and when pornography can be shown on campus, the University System of...