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Baltimore's next police commissioner is walking through a west-side neighborhood with some of the community's most engaged residents, but that's not enough for Anthony W. Batts. - Baltimore's next police commissioner is walking through a west-side neighborhood with some of the community's most engaged residents, but that's not enough for Anthony W. Batts.
- Robert T. Brown, a retired Veterans Administration executive, died Aug. 25 at the Edenwald Retirement Community in Towson after suffering a fall earlier in the summer. He was 96.
- Burck Smith is so far making good on his vision for revamping the way people pay for and complete college courses. His startup company, Straighterline, enables students to pay $99 a month for introductory college courses — and potentially save tens of thousands of dollars in the process.
- Baltimore's next police commissioner believes the drug trade is at the core of crime problems from car break-ins to gang killings. It's an issue that Anthony W. Batts says he's seen up close.
- Innovative partnership at once-troubled Baltimore City school could serve as a model
- The Howard County Board of Education voted 6-1 to approve a $206,620 contract with Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research, to conduct a rigorous data analysis to help better serve students through more effective policies and programs, and better-budgeted resources.
- William Boulton "Bo" Kelly Jr., a noted Baltimore architect, preservationist and civic leader who designed the Maryland Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair and was an expert on the Washington Monument, died Wednesday from complications of an infection at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. He was 84.
- The Board of Trustees of Harford Community College announces that Fredrick "Rick" P. Johnson has been selected as vice president for finance and operations.
- If NASA can stick its 'terror' landing on Mars, can't the next generation of U.S. students be properly educated in math and science?
- Dr. Zlatko Tesanovic, a Johns Hopkins University physics professor who advised his visiting academic colleagues where they should eat in Baltimore, died of an apparent heart attack July 26 at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., after collapsing at Reagan National Airport. The Canton resident was 55.
- The Howard County Public School System partners with Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research. As a part of the Strategic Data Project, the schools will undergo rigorous data analytics to see problem areas and strengths, and the research team will present their findings this fall.
- Dr. John E. Adams, a pathologist who had chaired the department of pathology at Greater Baltimore Medical Center for more than two decades after its founding and was a leading expert in bioethics, died July 9 of heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.
- Ronald A.J. Wilson, a retired accounting executive and Vietnam veteran, died June 30 from complications of pneumonia at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. The former Roland Park resident was 67.
- Sixty years ago this week, the liner United States, designed by William Francis Gibbs, swept eastward across the Atlantic on its maiden voyage in 3 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes, a record that still stands for a transatlantic crossing.
- Julian Samuel Stein Jr., a retired public relations executive who was an adviser to Gov. J. Millard Tawes, died June 22 of heart failure at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 93.
- An African-American history event at Hampton National Historic Site in Towson was engulfed in controversy after the event was originally entitled "Slave for a day."
- New Howard County Superintendent Renee Foose presented her entry plan, focused on openness and collaboration, Monday, June 11.
- Dr. Mark E. Molliver, a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor emeritus of neuroscience and neurology, died of complications after cardiac arrest May 10 at his hospital. The Canton resident was 75.
- Despite financing more than $140 million city contracts in the past 12 years, donating tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic causes and being a member of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's inner circle, J.P. Grant has largely avoided the limelight.
- Once targeted for development, wooded 'hillock' at University of Maryland College Park serves as outdoor classroom and laboratory.
- Harvard University-bound Bryn Mawr School senior named 2012 Presidential Scholar, the only one in Maryland. She has attended Bryn Mawr since third grade, and lives in Cockeysville.
- Risselle "Rikki" Fleisher, a former general counsel to the Maryland Commission on Human Relations who was a legal advocate in civil rights cases, died of breast cancer Tuesday at Stella Maris Hospice. The Bethany Beach, Del., resident was 77.
- Facebook to allow organ donation status, an idea that came from a Hopkins doctor
- On the eve of her retirement, Vice Admiral Sally Brice-O'Hara steps into the No. 1 spot at the Coast Guard.
- Life-saving pancreatic cancer surgery perfected over 30 years at Hopkins
- Norman Henley, a retired Russian language and world literature teacher and academic editor, died of congestive heart failure at the Charlestown Retirement Community in Catonsville. He was 96 and had earlier lived in Remington and Charles Village.
- A 22-year-old student from Parkville who planned a career in foreign service died Friday in a car accident in Morocco near Rabat, her family said.
- Hopkins, Maryland rank among the best schools of medicine
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- Today's attacks on intellectuals have their origin in Maryland's own Spiro Agnew
