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Councilman plans override effort on South County vetoes
Anne Arundel County Councilman Jerry Walker plans to attempt to override several vetoes issued by County Executive John R. Leopold on a rezoning bill for the southern portion of the county. Leopold vetoed 16 amendments Tuesday to the rezoning bill that...Tags: Anne Arundel County, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Annapolis, Local Government
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'Living history' is making a comeback at some Maryland museums
In the shadow of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia, John Wilkes Booth will tell anyone who'll listen just why that tyrant had to be assassinated.
Supporting himself on a wooden crutch, a decidedly agitated Booth, his voice rising to match the fierceness in his...Tags: Homes, Colonial Williamsburg, Clara Barton, Celebrities, History
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Going after the politicians
Sun StaffAMaryland United States attorney is involved in a sensitive investigation of a leading politician. The story makes it to the media. The subject denounces the probe as politically motivated. A deadline looms. Political pressure mounts. If that sounds as...Tags: Arts, Anne Arundel County, Republican Party, Regional Authority, Local Elections
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Unforgettable is what it's been
Sun StaffIt's been a tough 12 months for Art Modell. When he announced a year ago today that he was moving the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore, team owner Modell transformed himself from an elder statesman of pro football to its Benedict Arnold. Longtime friends...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Cleveland Cavaliers, American League, Football, Cleveland Browns
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Mike McGrady dies at 78; journalist behind sexy bestselling hoax
In the summer of 1966, Newsday columnist Mike McGrady threw down the gauntlet to a trusted coterie of fellow journalists: Produce a novel so poorly written and relentlessly focused on sex that it would fly off bookstore shelves. Two dozen colleagues,...Tags: News Media, Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Awards and Prizes, Monsters (legendary creatures), Feminism
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Notes and notables
The dating game, for boats It's springtime, that warm and breezy season when the hearts of Peninsula localities turn to courtship — of boat owners. The City of Poquoson, for example, decided to slash its boat tax rate from $1.50 to 75 cents per...Tags: Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Dannel P. Malloy , American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), James City County, Bob McDonnell
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News briefs for Thursday, May 10
A long, slow contemplation, then a decisive turn, behind Obama's move to endorse gay marriage WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's evolution on gay marriage unfolded at a Darwinian pace, like that of the giant tortoise. For more than a year...
Tags: Explosions, Same-Sex Marriage, Russia, Government Health Care, Heroism
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Alyson Hagy Alyson Hagy was raised on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. She is the author of "Ghosts of Wyoming" and "Snow, Ashes." She lives and teaches in Laramie, Wyo. Half Naked Productions presents "Missed Connections" 8:15 p.m....Tags: Amnesty International, Arts, Caroline Kennedy, Chris Jones, DePaul University
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Vampires of the sea: Lampreys are Connecticut's most disrespected fish
They are, according to one expert, the “most wrongly disrespected fish” in the whole Connecticut River system. Another says he’s had run-ins with fishermen “beating them to death with golf clubs or anything else they can find.&...
Tags: Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut), Salt, Lakes and Ponds, Naugatuck, Seafood and Fishing Industry
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Gettysburg Bobblehead disgrace helps restore depression
On a flight to Mexico, our hero encounters another man in the passenger plane's huge bathroom after they get out of bed. (This plane had sleeping berths.) "I didn't sleep well last night," complains the man. "I'm having trouble with insomnia."
"Oh,...Tags: Joseph Heller, Allentown, Osama bin Laden, Abraham Lincoln, Toy Industry
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Meryl Streep's next project: A national women's history museum
24 FramesMeryl Streep's efforts to get a National Women's History Museum built in Washington, D.C.... -
In New Hampshire presidential primary victory speech, brittle Massachusetts stiff blasts incumbent as an 'arrogant, inept, reckless ....great divider'
Change of SubjectThough I felt Mitt Romney's speech last night was unnecessarily ugly in its attacks on President Obama, I must admit after now having done my research that it wasn't all that different in tone and approach from the speech given......
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