NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Feb. 21 [Scroll down (below today’s entries) for full week’s compendia   — after clicking  “Read more »”  at end of today’s lede story]   WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — IN BRIEF   A Voice of Baltimore compendium, local and beyond.   Your weekday morning look  (with links)  […]

  BALTIMORE GETS BETTER DIGGING  OUT  FROM WINTER STORMS Shoveling snow, however, remains a health hazard   By David Maril   For years, Baltimore was labeled Panic City when it came to predictions of snow. Few who lived here would disagree. The threat alone of frozen precipitation would launch the city and counties into activating […]

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

  SALT ON WOUND  OF  PERSONAL TRANSPORT: BETWEEN JANUARY & MARCH IN BALTIMORE, VEHICLES  WON’T STAY CLEAN  FROM SALT Is it car preventative maintenance or therapy for drivers?   By David Maril   Even weeks before making the switch to Daylight Savings Time, the car wash lines start forming early in the morning when we have […]

  1970 FORT McHENRY CONCERT WAS CLASSIC; SLOOP CLEARWATER DRAMATIZES NEED TO CLEAN UP INLAND WATERWAYS Lead Belly’s ‘Goodnight, Irene’ was first big hit with Weavers   By Alan Z. Forman   When the quintessential folk singer of 20th Century America died last week at the age of 94, Voice of Baltimore searched for a […]