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Harford County library won't stock 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and sequels
Three of the most popular books in America are being kept off the shelves of the Harford County Public Library system because administrators consider them to be pornographic. British author E.L. James' erotic trilogy about a steamy affair between an...
Tags: Literature, Harford County, Carroll County (Maryland), Libraries, Enoch Pratt Free Library
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Editing and etiquette
ThI have been brooding for the past week over a part of a comment at the Language Log post "A half century of usage denialism," in which Deniz Rudin writes: "Descriptivism is an investigatory approach to the formal study of language, and it is...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Civil Rights, Dining and Drinking
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DOJ seeks to tighten Baltimore policy on recording police
The U.S. Department of Justice isn't satisfied with the Baltimore Police Department's recently issued orders on the public's right to record officers. Jonathan Smith, chief of the special litigation section of the Justice Department's Civil Rights...Tags: Harford County, Civil Rights, Preakness Stakes, Pimlico Race Course, Howard County
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Carroll commissioner creates monthly prayer session
A Carroll County commissioner has emailed an invitation to about 850 government employees to attend a monthly prayer session, which she will lead, raising concern among some residents and watchdog groups.
Commissioner Robin Bartlett Frazier drafted the...Tags: Conservation, Separation of Church and State, Carroll County (Maryland), Church and State Relations
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City's spending priorities are skewed
Let's be honest and place Baltimore City's budgeting and spending problems into proper context. The lavish spending of public funds to fix up the offices of Jerome Oberlton, chief information officer for Baltimore City schools, is really nothing new....
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Jack Hill, Property Tax, Prisons
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As school facilities crumble, executive suites get remodeled
New furniture, a flat-screen television, decorative light fixtures, interactive white boards — these are among amenities the city school system bought during $500,000 in renovations to the central office, even as administrators decried the state...Tags: Technology, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Budgets and Budgeting, Government Contracts, Finance
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Legislation would give state voters more political gift information
In more than 30 states, if a corporate chieftain were to ask top executives to contribute to a politician, an inquisitive voter could easily learn that the firm was bankrolling the candidate.
But not in Maryland. Campaigns are not required to disclose...Tags: Executive Branch, Baltimore County, Political Fundraising, Allan H. Kittleman, Lawyers
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Baltimore police not meeting terms of legal settlement, ACLU says
Nearly 20 percent of arrests made by Baltimore police for low-level, "quality-of-life" crimes haven't been properly documented, according to a new audit that a civil liberties group says understates the agency's shortcomings in meeting terms of a legal...
Tags: Police Arrests, Accounting and Auditing, Civil Rights, NAACP, Trials
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Bottle tax not a 'good start' or end
The Sun's recent editorial ("Bottle tax, or what?" April 22) calls a proposal to rehabilitate city schools with a regressive, job-threatening beverage tax a "good start." The Sun misses the broader economic implications the tax would have on residents...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Youngsters charged in playground assault have hearing shrouded in secrecy
Three children — an 8-year-old boy and two 9-year-old girls — who police took out of their elementary school in handcuffs earlier this year had hearings before a juvenile judge on Tuesday. They had been charged with aggravated assault, accused...Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Police Arrests, Health and Safety at School, Trials
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Md. high court strikes down DNA collection at arrest
Maryland's highest court on Tuesday blocked police in most cases from collecting DNA samples when they arrest suspects in violent crimes and burglaries, dealing a blow to one of Gov. Martin O'Malley's signature initiatives. The Court of Appeals ruled 5-2...Tags: Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Civil Rights, Human Body, Judges
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Maryland becomes first state to ban employers from asking for social media passwords
Moving to the forefront of social media privacy law nationwide, the Maryland General Assembly has passed legislation prohibiting employers in the state from asking current and prospective employees for their user names and passwords to websites such as...Tags: Media Industry, Richard Blumenthal, Twitter, Inc., Maryland General Assembly, Prisons
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