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The prospect of Harford County's economy losing in excess of 4,000 military and defense contracting jobs associated with various activities at Aberdeen Proving Ground is as unsavory a scenario that could be visited on the local economy.

Of the prospective GOP presidential nominees, none has yet developed the credentials to claim rightfully to be next in line.

JET magazine, the pocket-sized source of news about blacks since 1951, has bowed to the ages and gone digital with a new app. But its debut digital issue this month makes clear that JET is no longer the magazine for anyone who claims to be at least middle-aged.

In times of emergency, the U.S. government and the American people respond vigorously and generously. But food aid is not only about such short-term responses. Long term development work can help prevent or lessen the impact of these emergencies.

Today's young people seem to know and care more about sex, pop stars and the latest cellphones, than wisdom and knowledge from our past and the character of those who fought to preserve our freedoms.

Seventy years ago today, more than 100,000 American, British and Canadian troops landed on a fortified section of French beach as they began what Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called "a great crusade" to liberate France and the rest of occupied Europe from the Germans.

At the Charlestown retirement community in Catonsville, Harper Griswold, Howard McNamara, Harold Rummel and Bill Swanner, to remember what they accomplished — and those they lost.

Last week, the Howard County farmers markets kicked off the 2014 season with five markets — two in Ellicott City — that are now open through the last week of November.

Symbols are meaningful in politics. Sometimes, a gesture as simple as a handshake can resonate with tremendous importance.

David Scheffenacker has quite a rare book collection in his house in north Roland Park, and he sometimes shares it with schools and book clubs, as he will next month in Howard County. The collection focuses on history and the great explorers like Lewis and Clark.

Column extols some noted celebrities from Laurel and their current careers. The Laurel Trap-Neuter-Return program, a community solution for community feral cats, needs assistance from neighbors in finding unsterilized cat colonies.

Katherine E. Rafalko, who was a retired Stella Maris nursing supervisor who had been a World War II Army nurse and treated Battle of the Bulge casualties, died of heart disease Monday at her Timonium home. She was 91.

George Frank Thompson, who made and served lunch to Pope John Paul II on his visit to Baltimore and who had earlier mixed drinks for five presidents as a Capitol Hill barman, died Dec. 14 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 98 and lived in the Otterbein section of the Inner Harbor.

When obstruction reaches historic proportions, Democrats had little choice but to change long-standing rules

JFK's death taught us that grief, and the imperative to comfort one another in moments of deep sorrow, knows no rank.

Joan A. Spurrier, a retired legal secretary and family matriarch, died of kidney failure Sunday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Idlewylde resident was 80.

Elementary schools in Howard County received a new feature over the summer: buzz-in systems to enhance each school's security and safety.

Walk from Camp David to D.C. draws attention to environmental consequences of tar sands oil

A new book sheds light on the Dwight Eisenhower-Richard Nixon relationship, which was replayed in Nixon's relationship with Spiro T. Agnew.

U.S. must invest more in early childhood health and education

Endless chatter about the "fiscal cliff" has avoided serious consideration of military spending, a major cause of our difficulties. Defense appropriations are $525 billion for 2013 — 57 percent of the discretionary budget, more than those of all other departments and agencies combined. The U.S. military has twice the budget as the seven next nations combined. We could have an effective military at a far lower cost. Why are expenditures so high?

Lewis R. "Lew" Bush, former photo director whose career at The Baltimore Sun spanned nearly two decades, died Friday from complications of dementia at his home in Palm Coast, Fla. He was 80.

Members of the Governor William Paca Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution – from left, Emily Andrews, Dotty Meyer, Barbara Adams and Ginny Carlin – accept a proclamation from Harford County Executive

Doyle McManus warns that lame-duck presidents often have trouble accomplishing big things

Harford County Executive David Craig says voting may be frustrating at times, but it's never futile.

Charles H. Heinlein, an Army machine gunner who survived the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944 and returned 60 years later, died Saturday from pneumonia at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 90.

Billie Insley closing Your Shoe Service shop in Linthicum after 58 years, another sign of a fading profession.

Jules Witcover says the GOP is proudly reasserting the extremism of a half-century ago

Florence J. Micherdzinski, a retired executive assistant and avid gardener, died Friday of an intestinal blockage at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. She was 88.

Disgraced collector Barry H. Landau was sentenced to seven years in federal prison Wednesday for stealing thousands of historic documents worth as much as $2.5 million from archives along the East Coast, including Baltimore, where the scheme unraveled last summer.

Thumbs down on Frank Gehry's design for Eisenhower Memorial

Gehry design for Eisenhower captures the spirit of the man

Proposed monument falls short of both what he represents and the very purpose of memorialization

Q&A with Helen Delich Bentley, who believes U.S. lost upper hand in merchant shipping by not pursuing nuclear-powered commercial vessels like the N/S Savannah.

If we didn't spend so much on defense there'd be more money for things we really need

How local entrepreneurs brewed up a plan to bring big league ball to Baltimore

One major aspect of American government remains shrouded from public view: Arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, Jules Witcover writes.

Morris Tischler, a science teacher who invented a 1958 transistorized pacemaker, died of respiratory failure March 9 at his Pikesville home. He was 89.

The golf course at Fort Meade will close May 1 after more than six decades of play, officials at the Army base said Thursday.

Day trips: President's Day weekend

William J. Nauman Jr., a retired Verizon quality manager, died Nov. 17 of a brain tumor at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 78.

William J. Nauman Jr., a retired Verizon quality manager, died Nov. 17 of a brain tumor at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 78.

Mark your calendar for upcoming holiday events in West Laurel.

Not so long ago, accusations like the ones against Herman Cain would have killed a candidacy, but if he can get the facts out, he may have a second act.

Leonard Pitts ignores the history of Republican support for the Civil Rights movement.

As Laurel Park's 100

Dr. Walter A. Rafalko, retired professor of law and associate dean of the University of Baltimore Law School, died July 28 of congestive heart failure at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 91.

Dr. Walter A. Rafalko, retired professor of law and associate dean of the University of Baltimore Law School, died July 28 of congestive heart failure at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 91.

Tucked behind a ruined grain elevator at a pier along an industrial stretch of Baltimore's waterfront lies a still-gleaming white vessel that was once one of the nation's proudest maritime achievements — the only nuclear cargo and passenger ship ever built in the United States.