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Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley was in the national spotlight again Monday night during the Democratic presidential candidates' town hall event on CNN. Here's a sampling of what's being said about O'Malley the day after - Dr. Garfield D. Kington, an inner city physician who was a familiar and comforting presence to his West Baltimore patients for decades, died Aug. 3 of multiple myeloma at his Northwest Baltimore home. He was 91.
- Three years before the next presidential election, Republican also-rans are making noises about trying again. The most conspicuous is former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who won the Iowa caucuses in 2008 but quickly faded and pivoted to his own television show to lick his wounds and contemplate his future.
- William A. Miller Jr., a seasoned newsman who was the first managing editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, died Wednesday of heart disease at Gilchrist hospice Care in Towson. He was 88.
- Doyle McManus warns that lame-duck presidents often have trouble accomplishing big things
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- President Obama's interview with the Des Moines Register and a statement this week by 80 corporate CEOs on the need for increased revenue as part of deficit reduction provide some hope that the nation can work its way out of its fiscal mess.
- Banks are taking a regulation to weed out dishonest executives to the extreme
- Kent Desormeaux will not ride Dullahan in the Belmont Stakes June 9, the Des Moines Register reported Monday.
- Ravens kicker Billy Cundiff said Sunday that his teammates and the Ravens organization have given him nothing but support since he missed a 32-yard field goal attempt in the final minute of the team¿s 23-20 loss to the New England Patriots in the AFC championship game three weeks ago.
- Billy Cundiff expected worse after the AFC championship game.
- One of six U.S. Marines killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan last week was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.
- By trying to shift the blame for sexual harassment stories to Rick Perry, Herman Cain has kept the story alive.
