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Congress, the tea party and the IRS: Sentence first, then the trial
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama fired the head of the Internal Revenue Service, the first sacrificial lamb brought down after the alleged "targeting" of conservative political groups by the IRS. Mr. Obama declared, "Americans are right to be angry...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Tea Party Movement, Internal Revenue Service, Republican Party, Parties and Movements
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State workers ready to untangle Memorial Day traffic snarls
On Memorial Day weekends, Kim Yates and Albert Kullman measure success by speed. Yates steers her bright yellow tow truck toward trouble, with the goal of getting disabled vehicles out of the roadway or back in business before traffic has time to clog....
Tags: Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Traffic, Holidays, Automotive Equipment, Holiday Vacations
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Grease catches fire in restaurant area at Wegmans
A fire was reported at the popular Wegmans grocery store in Abingdon late Sunday evening, causing a brief evacuation of the store by employees and customers. No injuries were reported, and the store re-opened shortly after the fire was contained, a...
Tags: Social Media, Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.
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As contraband phones flood Baltimore jail, blocking technology comes online
Maryland corrections officials are taking advantage of new technology designed to block the use of contraband cellphones by inmates — a problem at the heart of recent indictments at the Baltimore City Detention Center. In a program being used at...
Tags: Prosecution, Justice System, Federal Communications Commission, FBI, Prisons
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Fighting homophobia by tracking down its source
As a journalist, I'm a big believer in free speech, but also in the idea that bigotry and wrongdoing are fair game for scrutiny. Regardless of your political leanings, it's fair to say that publicly ridiculing others in a confrontational and...
Tags: United Nations, Susan Rice, Human Rights, Twitter, Inc., Social Media
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Obama administration assaults press freedom
In Washington, as in any seat of power, most acts of folly begin with hubris. Government leaders, elected or appointed, usually don't intend to do the wrong thing, to overstep or cause harm, but they become so convinced, so certain of their purpose,...
Tags: Prosecution, The Associated Press, Tea Party Movement, The New York Times, Central Intelligence Agency
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Somerset drops buyout of Smith Island homes
A proposed buyout of Smith Island homeowners to help them escape future damage from tropical storms and rising waters has been dropped amid vocal resistance from residents of the low-lying community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. The Somerset...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Tropical Storms, Government Aid, Real Estate
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CNN, MSNBC, Fox show true colors in choice of stories this week
The Baltimore SunLast week was a great one for cable news watching. Not because any one channel did such outstanding work, but rather because several stories clamored simultaneously for the camera’s attention. The choices that a channel makes in such situations are...Tags: Television, Justice System, Television Industry, Social Media, Abusive Behavior
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The Internet celebrates LeBron, Europe, your mom
It's Europe Day! (Yeah, we didn't know that either.) Welcome to your trends report for Friday, May 10. You're not alone if you were in the dark about the EU's annual holiday: Apparently, very few Europeans know that it exists. Nonetheless, between that,...
Tags: Tom Thibodeau, USA Today, Social Media, Google Inc., Mother's Day
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Where have all of Baltimore's colorful figures gone?
Baltimore used to be a town of colorful public characters. One of them, my father, passed away 40 years ago today. Sam Shapiro was often described as a "perennial" candidate — for mayor in 1967 and 1971 and House of Representatives in 1968 and...
Tags: Elections, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Annapolis, National Aquarium Baltimore
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Niall Ferguson's blooper
At an investment conference last week, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson created a huge mess for himself. He glibly speculated that maybe because economist John Maynard Keynes was a childless, "effete" homosexual, he embraced a doctrine that favored...
Tags: Family Planning, Abraham Lincoln, Ethics, Milton Friedman, Twitter, Inc.
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Baltimore Spectator pleads guilty to gun charge
Frank James MacArthur, the local Internet personality known as the Baltimore Spectator, pleaded guilty Wednesday to possession of a short-barreled shotgun after a December standoff with police that he broadcast live. MacArthur's lawyer said his client...
Tags: Trials, Prisons, Prosecution, Justice System, Judges
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