GIVING A COMPLIMENT TO A WORKER IS SOMETIMES THE BEST GIFT OF ALL Too often ‘a job well done’ gets  taken  for  granted CALL UP THE PERSON’S BOSS   By David Maril   As we head toward the New Year and have finished off the holiday shopping season, many of us are weary from […]

  NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Dec. 20 [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 […]

  WHEELCHAIRS  AND  WAR: DEALING WITH TODAY’S STRAINS & STRESSES Bringing out best in people; wishing novice soldier well THE WAY SOME HANDLE ADVERSITY CAN BE AN INSPIRATION TO US ALL   By David Maril   On the one-year anniversary of the Newtown school-shooting tragedy in Connecticut, we continue to question why there was no […]

  NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Dec. 13 [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 […]

  MORE THAN SEVEN DECADES FROM DEC. 7, 1941 MEMORIAL SITE  AFFECTS VISITORS  INTENSELY Oil still seeps from sunken USS Arizona’s bunkers   By David Maril   Looking through several metropolitan daily newspapers Saturday, on the anniversary date that President Franklin Roosevelt declared would be a day that would live “in infamy,” there was hardly […]