NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday March 7 [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 […]

  HUBERT HUMPHREY DESERVES HONOR  &  RECOGNITION FOR HIS INTEGRITY Political world today would be more civil if 38th Vice President had won in 1968 OVERWHELMED BY NEGATIVITY, VOTERS  SOLD  HUMPHREY AND THE U.S. SHORT   By David Maril   I was too young to vote but memories of Hubert Humphrey losing to Richard Nixon […]

  NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Feb. 28 [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 […]

  REGULATORY AGENCY’S PLAN PUT ON HOLD TO SEND ‘MONITORS’ TO GRILL EDITORS AND REPORTERS IN U.S. NEWSROOMS Are American newspapers a ‘polluted vehicle’? Should Obama Administration bureaucrats have oversight  over journalists’ work?   A VOICE OF BALTIMORE EDITORIAL   By Alan Z. Forman   Thomas Jefferson, the great champion of Freedom of the Press, […]

  GOVERNMENT  BANS SMOKING WHILE  AT  THE  SAME TIME LEGALIZING  MARIJUANA ‘We the Folks’ replaces ‘People’? SPRING TRAINING, TIME FOR OPTIMISM   By David Maril   While wondering, with the U.S. Postal Service having so much trouble delivering mail, how some Washington politicians can consider proposing that the system offer banking services in branches… it’s […]