NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday March 21 [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 […]

  GET READY TO BE BOMBARDED BY RECORDED MESSAGES FROM CANDIDATES But if they can telephone us, why can’t we return the favor? WHY DON’T POLITICAL MESSAGES QUALIFY FOR ‘DO NOT CALL LIST’?   By David Maril   Better gear up for the annoying robocalls from political hacks and the “get-out-to-vote for me” pleas from […]

  SECOND-FUNNIEST OBIT The New York Times, which is not known for making fun of dead people, ran this line in the lede paragraph of its Page 1 obituary on longtime Cosmopolitan Editor Helen Gurley Brown: She was 90, though parts of her were considerably younger. Brown was famous for speaking freely of her multiple […]

  BROADCASTERS DICTATE NOT ONLY WHAT WE SEE, BUT HOW OUR TV SCREENS DISPLAY IMAGES Why are we not paid rent for the space they use on our TV sets for their logos?   By David Maril There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the pic- ture. We are […]

  NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday March 14 [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 […]