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- While Baltimore's light rail system it debuted alongside the successful Oriole Park at Camden yards in 1992, the 25-year-old rail line's envisioned role as a transit solution for Baltimore has gone largely unfulfilled. While crowded around game times and somewhat busy at rush hour, light rail's ridership remains below projections, and the north-south line did not become part of a larger integrated transit system.
- Mayor Pugh and the City Council are playing good cop/bad cop with Donald Trump.
- Maryland Transit Administration Police will be conducting "fare compliance enforcement sweeps" on light rail trains beginning Tuesday and lasting through Sunday to correspond with the Orioles' home stand against the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, the MTA said.
- Form the creators of "Next to Normal," "If/Then" features the dynamic Idina Menzel in a sometimes confusing musical about a woman restarting her life in New York.
- Under growing pressure over recently disclosed surveillance programs, the head of the National Security Agency told lawmakers on Tuesday that gathering telephone data and monitoring Internet use has helped to disrupt more than 50 "potential terrorist events" since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.