Sorry 'bout no blog yesterday. The Third Floor needed a day off. Friday, too, so Monday will be the next update.
That's What You Get When You Fire Louis Rukeyser: After 35 years on the air Maryland Public Television cancels landmark PBS show Wall $treet Week.
Ah-choo! UM School of Medicine to help test avian flu vaccine.
Park Life: In an attempt to hold on to swing voters next year, Gov. Bob Ehrlich and GOP legislators change minds, back ballot amendment that, if voters pass it, would curtail governor's ability to sell off state-owned parkland. (Post story.)
Generally Assembled: From yesterday's Post, John Wagner and David Snyder catch up on outstanding bills and such as the legislative session goes into crunch time. As I'm neither a teen nor the parent of one, I've not been following these bills closely, but a lot of people seem to care massively about them: Anyway, teen driving restriction bills inch closer to passage. Sort of changing her position, Helen Delich Bentley tells legislators not to make Maryland Port Administration a cabinet-level agency--at least not yet. And a good story on the stem-cell research money debate in the legislature from the Gazette papers.
Hopkins Murder Bust: In case you've been under a rock for the past 24 hours or so police arrest suspect in killing of Hopkins student Linda Trinh. Sidebar on student reaction, News-Letter story, Post story, Washington Times story.
Self-Defense: From the Dundalk Eagle, Baltimore County Department of Social Services defends its role in death of 3-year-old Roy Lechner Jr.
Bus Battle: From The Messenger, business owners at York and Belvedere don't like bus stops, or riders. Also from The Messenger, Ehrlich budget reinstates state funding for Village Learning Place.
Bear Hunt: From the Cumberland Times-News, Maryland Department of Natural Resources to allow 40-55 bears to be hunted in far Western Maryland this year.
Try, Try Again: City still looking for a way to make Pier Six Concert Pavilion successful.
Eh, Wot!? From the Carroll County Times, longtime British Hampstead man imprisoned, faces deportation under Patriot Act due to piddly drug charges.
Carry-out Carnage: Catonsville's Mr. G's Fast Lane perhaps mortally damaged in fire.
Spice It Up: McCormick and Co. reports good news at its stockholder meeting.
