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• Opinion

A pregnant woman with HIV, and the cost of U.S. foreign aid cuts

A Doctors Without Borders physician describes the good American anti-AIDS programs are doing, and the risks posed by 'supercommittee' cuts.

• Readers Respond

Inequities come from government, too

Government puts up too many barriers to prevent the poor from getting the help they need

• Readers Respond

Mikulski wrong to oppose prevailing wage rule

Sen. Barbara Mikulski opposes a regulation that would raise the prevailing wage in industries like seafood, landscaping and construction.

• Opinion

Mikulski wrong to oppose prevailing wage rule

• Defense

Wayside Cross event in Towson recognizes debt to America's military personnel

Dozens of Baltimore County veterans, politicians and citizens gathered around the Wayside Cross—which has been a fixture in downtown Towson for nearly a century—to pay tribute to America's military veterans on a blustery Friday morning.

• Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman national park gets key Congressional approval

• Politics

Cardin launches re-election campaign

Benjamin L. Cardin formally launched his campaign for re-election on Sunday. The Democrat is one of the few in the nation expected to have an easy ride to another term.

• Elections

Wargotz forgoes Senate run

• Politics and Government

Md. power elite close ranks around Currie

Politicians in other states might be reluctant to stand up for an official accused of corruption, but in Maryland, leading elected officials have testified as character witnesses for state Sen. Ulysses Currie, who is charged with bribery.

• Opinion

Mikulski wrong on Canadian drug imports

Sen Barbara Mikulski: Wrong on Canadian drug imports

• Manufacturing and Engineering

Mikulski seeks House support for Webb Telescope project

Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski said Wednesday she expects the Senate will pass a budget bill on Tuesday that will include $530 million to continue work toward launch of the Webb Telescope in 2018

• Space

Mikulski seeks House support for Webb Telescope project

• Opinion

Jobs and fairness: 'prevailing wage' rule good for Marylanders

Mikulski shouldn't block proposed change that favors foreign workers in state's seafood industry

• Opinion

Mikulski wrong to oppose Canadian drug imports

The only things endangered by import of Canadian drugs are the huge profits of U.S. pharmaceutical companies

• Opinion

Jobs and fairness: 'prevailing wage' rule good for Marylanders

• Sports

Rosenberg man behind statue of Brooks Robinson

Henry Rosenberg is the man behind statue of Brooks Robinson. The former Orioles great's longtime friend worked seven years to honor the Hall of Fame third baseman.

• NASA

NASA head visits Baltimore to show off Webb telescope

A full-size model of the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be assembled in and operated from Maryland, is on display at the Inner Harbor through the end of the month.

• Op-eds

Fairness for Eastern Shore chicken farmers

Congress must protect contract farmers from abusive poultry industry practices

• College Sports

Johns Hopkins professor shares Nobel Prize in physics

Adam Riess, a Johns Hopkins University professor, is one of a trio of scientists sharing the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics.

• NASA

Astronomers fret over Webb Telescope's future

House wants to kill costly project

• Space

Astronomers fret over Webb Telescope's future

• Barbara Mikulski

Mikulski inducted into women's Hall of Fame

• Barbara Mikulski

Labor Dept. delays wage hike for foreign workers

• Jobs and Workplace

Senate panel OKs delay of crab-picker wage raise

Measure would have made industry pay more for temporary guest workers

• Barbara Mikulski

Senate panel approves delay of guest worker wage hike

• U.S. Senate

Senate panel OKs delay of crab-picker wage raise

• Railway Transportation

$22M allocated for Susquehanna rail bridge

Maryland has been allocated $22 million in stimulus funds to begin work on replacing the Susquehanna River Railroad Bridge, the states' senators announced Friday.

• Barbara Mikulski

Mikulski presses White House on guest workers

• Jobs and Workplace

Md. crab processors battle federal wage rule

Members of Maryland's seafood industry are fighting a U.S. Department of Labor rule that would require businesses to pay higher wages for temporary guest workers who come to the U.S. each summer to pick crabs and shuck oysters.

• Opinion

Legal aid is needed more than ever

Proposal to slash funds to provide legal assistance to the poor falls short of America's ideals

• Politics

For mayoral candidates, a whirl of handshakes

• Human Interest

Maryland dedicates 9/11 memorial at Baltimore's World Trade Center

As Marylanders gathered in Baltimore Sunday to dedicate the state's memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the weather abruptly shifted from sunshine to a rain that struck some there as absolutely fitting.

• News

Crowded fields, strong incumbents in City Council races

More than 70 candidates are vying for 14 seats on the Baltimore City Council — a job characterized by lengthy meetings, endless calls from residents about vacant homes and rats, and, in the city's strong mayor form of government, very little political power.

• Politics

Md. lawmakers have mixed reactions to Obama's job speech

Maryland Democrats in Congress cheered President Barack Obama's plan to cut taxes and increase spending as a way to spur job growth, but the state's Republicans have some questions.

• Unemployment and Layoffs

Mikulski calls for `urgent¿ measures on unemployment

• Politics and Government

Officials laud Harford's BRAC achievements as process closes

Government and military officials praise relationships as BRAC process closes

• News

Cosby stumps for Rolley in Baltimore

Bill Cosby braved heavy rains Wednesday to stump for mayoral challenger Otis Rolley at a West Baltimore senior apartment building.

• Politics and Government

Rawlings-Blake sweeping competition

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake boasts an imposing lead over her challengers ahead of the Democratic primary, with a larger percentage of likely voters than all of her rivals combined, according to an exclusive Baltimore Sun opinion poll.

• Politics

Rawlings-Blake sweeping competition

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake boasts an imposing lead over her challengers ahead of the Democratic primary, with a larger percentage of likely voters than all of her rivals combined, according to an exclusive Baltimore Sun opinion poll.

• Arts and Culture

A reunion to remember

It took 62 years to happen but the Class of 1949 of Havre de Grace Colored High School finally had an official reunion earlier this month.

• Crime

Out of history: Md. pages lament program's end

Former congressional pages from Maryland — including some who have gone on to long careers in politics — lament the decision to end the nearly 200-year-old program this month.

• Opinion

Harriet Tubman visitor center: a good first step

Building the Harriet Tubman visitors center on the Eastern Shore is a good first step but adding a national park would complete the honor and add jobs

• Arts and Culture

Tubman Underground Railroad center on Shore gets funding

A project that will be the centerpiece of an effort to honor Harriet Tubman is getting federal funding.

• Opinion

Fight the scourge of sex trafficking

Government needs to step up and increase its efforts to combat the growing problem of sex trafficking

• Obituaries

Dolores B. Canoles, highway foe and Canton activist, dies

Dolores B. Canoles, a former longtime Canton neighborhood activist who joined the battle in the late 1960s that successfully killed a proposed extension of Interstate 83 through East Baltimore, died Aug. 3 from complications of dementia at Oak Crest Village retirement community.

• Politics

Debt vote tough call for Md. lawmakers

For Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin and other liberal Democrats in the Senate who are up for election next year, the decision Tuesday to vote for the compromise to raise the nation's debt ceiling was grueling. But unlike in the House, a majority of Senate Democrats backed the deal.

• U.S. Debt Ceiling

Cardin, Mikulski, vote yes on debt ceiling deal

• Howard County

HCC part of Mount Airy health care center consortium

Howard Community College is part of a three-college consortium that will launch a Mount Airy-based health care training center to propel job seekers into those high-demand careers, HCC officials said.

• Entertainment

100 things we love about Baltimore -- Printable list

Take this list as personal suggestions, from one neighbor to another.

• Baltimore City Paper

NASA manned space flight may be grounded, but Maryland space science is preparing for lift off