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Grading system for Baltimore restaurants proposed
Restaurant and bar owners in Baltimore may soon be required to post letter grades rating their performance in city health inspections — a system aimed at informing the public about the cleanliness of neighborhood eateries. Legislation mandating...
Tags: Fells Point, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Baltimore Development Corporation, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Bernard C. Young
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Emanuel, teachers union both miss the big picture in Chicago strike
The Windy City is engulfed in a stormy teachers' strike that has gathered front-page national attention. But will it turn out to be just more hot air in the national debate over school reform? I'm afraid so, even though the issues at stake in Chicago are...
Tags: Poverty, Adrian Fenty, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Teachers Strike, Academic Progress
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Hopkins ethicists say consent needed for Jewish circumcision ritual
Update: The New York City Board of Health voted unanimously to require parents to sign consent forms before their kids can have Jewish ritual circumcision. Read the New York Times account here. Â A group of Johns Hopkins ethicists have written a letter...
Tags: Christian Orthodoxy, Christianity, American Academy of Pediatrics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Judaism
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In response to Colorado shootings, Obama wimps out
As Eliza Doolittle put it in "My Fair Lady": "Words, words words, I'm so sick of words!" Once again, in the wake of the latest shooting spree in Colorado, presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney ran a race to the microphones to deplore it,...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, CBS Corp., Barack Obama
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Whether it's the economy or the Colorado shooting, the left and right view the world in predictable ways
The gulf between the American left and right continues to widen against a backdrop of high unemployment, weak growth and high octane cultural battles. I got to thinking about this growing divide in the aftermath of the Colorado movie theater shooting...
Tags: Gun Control, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Personal Weapon Control, Freddie Mac, Barack Obama
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Maryland's mismanaged pensions
There are serious clouds over the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System and the way the O'Malley administration has managed it. Consider the following: 1. The rate of return in the year ending March 31 was 3.18 percent, and the rate of return over...
Tags: Credit Ratings, Government, Private Equity, Finance, Realty
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Getting doctors to practice what they preach
It's ironic that the year we, both new medical students, moved across the street from the nation's best hospital and began learning how to manage the health of others is the same year we stopped taking care of our own. It was a year of ups and downs....Tags: Diabetes, Students, Medical Specialization, Entertainment Events, Overweight
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Demise of a centrist nominee dream
That pop you may or may not have heard the other day was the bursting pipedream of a centrist presidential candidate outside the establishment parties. The organizers of a group calling itself Americans Elect decided to close shop after failing to find...
Tags: Executive Branch, Tea Party Movement, Charles Elson Roemer, III, Joe Biden, Government
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Top-of-the-line tourist attraction
— Is it any wonder that a city renowned for its lofty skyscrapers has created a stunning park in the sky? The High Line Park, a 1930s-era elevated rail line, has been transformed into vibrant green space, perched some 30 feet above Manhattan. There...
Tags: Amtrak, Porgy and Bess (movie), Central Park, Executive Branch, Diane von Furstenberg
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Letter: Public subsidies are not to blame for health issues
Regarding the June 14, letter commenting on New York's proposed ban on sodas ("New York Mayor Bloomberg's ban on sodas should be backed") my interest soon changed to destain when the author listed "public subsidies" a culprit to the obesity epidemic,...Tags: Diabetes, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Human Rights, Consumer Goods Industries, Hospitals and Clinics
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Md. leaders watching New York's ban of large soda containers
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed this week a first-of-its-kind ban on the sale of large-sized sodas and other sugary beverages at restaurants and other outlets, but don’t look to Baltimore to immediately follow suit. Though studies say...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Consumer Goods Industries, Consumers, Restaurants, Dining and Drinking
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Maryland lawmakers under national pressure on marriage bill
As a handful of undecided Maryland delegates wrestle over their position on same-sex marriage, they've received calls from national leaders trying to move them one way or another on the bill.
Prominent figures dialing Maryland area codes include New York...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Executive Branch, Government, Rome (Italy), National Government
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