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- Robert Reich: GM's shareholder-first focus reveals problems in Donald Trump's America-first economic policy.
- President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to express disappointment in General Motors for “closing plants” in Ohio, Michigan and Maryland while sparing facilities in Mexico and Canada.
- A source said the plant being shuttered in Canada is just the beginning as GM prepares for the next downturn, shifting trade agreements and potential tariffs on imports.
- Thomas “Tommy” Randall Roberts Sr., a gospel singer and real estate salesman, died of a heart disease July 19 at Gilchrist Center Baltimore.
- In 1965, more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King Jr. began their march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. Above, King greets the crowd
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- In 1922, Vladimir I. Lenin proclaimed the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which lasted nearly seven decades before dissolving in Dec.
- In 1965, more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther King Jr. began their march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
- Some members of the Baltimore County Council were waiting to see whether they survived primary challenges, with results of their races undetermined late Tuesday evening.
- Half a century ago this Wednesday, as a bright sun climbed the sky above downtown Washington, Douglas B. Sands, then 29, stood a few hundred feet from the Lincoln Memorial and looked out over the National Mall in wonder.
- WASHINGTON -- An Annapolis lawyer nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the National Labor Relations Board was confirmed Tuesday by the Senate less than two weeks after she was named.
- WASHINGTON -- An Annapolis attorney nominated by President Barack Obama to serve on the National Labor Relations Board cleared a committee vote Wednesday and is expected to win confirmation by the full Senate as early as next week.
- An Annapolis lawyer who has long represented unions tried to assure Senate Republicans on Tuesday that she could serve as an impartial member of the National Labor Relations Board.
- Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler brought his all-but-official campaign for governor to Western Maryland Friday, pledging to help rebuild the state's manufacturing base by giving Maryland companies preferences in securing government contracts.
- Hall of Famer softball players Eddie Miles never too fond of baseball
- Ernest B. Crofoot, a labor organizer who later became head of Council 67 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, died Friday from complications of cancer at his Annapolis home. He was 88.
- Judge Elsbeth Levy Bothe, a well-known criminal defense attorney who became the third woman to serve on the old Supreme Bench of Baltimore City when appointed in 1978, died Wednesday from complications of a stroke at her Homeland residence. She was 85.
- The media love to cast the Hostess bankruptcy as another story about greedy unions, but the truth is quite different.
- If the right-to-work assault on middle class wages and benefits can happen in Michigan, it could happen anywhere