NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday June 13 [Scroll down for full week’s compendia]   WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF   A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond.   Your weekday morning look  (with links)  at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on […]

  HOME SUPERVISION NECESSARY TO CORRECT TEEN PROBLEM; LONG-RANGE SOLUTION NEEDED But earlier curfew obscures issue   By David Maril   There’s no doubt that Baltimore’s new curfew law, requiring children and teens to be off the streets by 9 p.m., is well intentioned. The law is expected to go into effect in a couple […]

  NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday June 6 [Scroll down for full week’s compendia]   WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF   A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond.   Your weekday morning look  (with links)  at late-breaking news, current events, and what will be talked about wherever you may go on […]

  KEY TO PLAYING THE ‘BLAME GAME’: NEVER ADMIT YOU WERE WRONG; ‘SOMEONE ELSE WAS AT FAULT’ Vet. Affairs’ Gen. Shinseki is prime example; Martin O’Malley & Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown play the game by blaming state website HUMPHREY BOGART PROPOSES ‘FALL GUY’   By David Maril   Eric Shinseki’s resignation as Veterans Affairs Secretary […]

  FILMMAKER ASTRA TAYLOR SEES DOOMY FUTURE FOR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT Forerunner of Voice of Baltimore cited as ‘best of both worlds’   By Stephen Janis   It is a ritual that extends as far back as the Frankfurt School and Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936). […]