FUNDRAISERS FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS DESERVE SLIGHTLY BETTER CONSIDERATION, ALTHOUGH THEY CAN BE ANNOYING ALSO Never pledge money  over the phone; resist giving out credit card numbers; don’t cave-in to salesmen’s pressure DONATIONS SHOULD NOT BE LIMITED TO FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY   By David Maril   Even though it’s a new year and tax deductions […]

  TOUGH ON CRIME DEMOCRAT FACES  GROWING SUPPORT FOR DECRIMINALIZATION Rawlings-Blake will not be waving ‘the Schmoke flag of legalization’ A VOICE OF BALTIMORE EDITORIAL   It would be hard to find a Democrat vying for the highest office in the land who has hewn more closely to the liberal laundry list of hot button […]

  NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Jan. 17 [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 […]

  CIGARETTES  GO UP IN SMOKE ON JANUARY 11, 1964, A DAY IN  U.S.  SMOKING  INFAMY Popular lifestyle addiction exposed as ‘cancer sticks’ CIGARETTES STILL SURVIVE TODAY BUT IN A GREATLY REDUCED ROLE By David Maril January 11th this year is an anniversary date the powerful tobacco companies are not celebrating. On that day in […]

  NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Jan. 10 [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 […]