A SIMPLE CROSSTOWN RIDE INCLUDES MORE THRILLS THAN SPACE MOUNTAIN An educational lifestyle experience CROWDED & HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT   By David Maril   In contrast to Baltimoreans, who seem to go everywhere by car, New Yorkers rave about their subway system. No matter how bottled up the streets are with traffic, New Yorkers boast […]

  NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday April 18 [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 […]

  RESPECTED ADULTS BEHAVE BADLY ON TV; ENTERTAINMENT MASQUERADING AS NEWS ANALYSIS & PERSPECTIVE Arguments & character assassination rule airwaves; panelists’ dialogue is juvenile, abrasive and absurd LOW-GRADE CONTENT KILLS OFF CIVILIZED DEBATE   By David Maril   Tune in much of the “discussion” programming on right-wing Fox News and left-wing MSNBC and you wonder […]

  THE GOVERNOR CAN’T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS: DOES HE WANT MORE PEOPLE ARRESTED? OR SHOULD MARIJUANA BE MADE LEGAL? Collecting progressive cred like casino markers A VOICE OF BALTIMORE EDITORIAL   By R.P.M. Kolchak   Make no mistake about it, Martin O’Malley likes putting people in prison. He locked up hundreds of thousands of […]

  NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday April 11 [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 […]