NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Friday Dec. 6 [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 […]

  ARE COMMERCIAL INCENTIVES TO SHOP EARLY INFRINGING  ON  FAMILIES’  TOGETHERNESS? Stores pull shoppers from holiday dinner table STUFFED BIRDS  FORCED TO COMPETE WITH EARLY-BIRD DEALS AT THE MALL   By David Maril   I don’t know about you, but the prospects have never appealed to me of navigating through jammed parking lots filled with cars […]

  NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS — For Wednesday Nov. 27 [Scroll down for full week’s compendia.  NEED-TO-KNOW NEWS is a weekday/workday-only service.]   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 […]

  On this day, Nov. 25th, in 1963 the assassinated 35th President of the United States was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, ending a 3-day period of national mourning, uncertainty and upheaval.   DESPITE UNFOLDING  OF  NEW PERSPECTIVES, IMAGES FROM WEEKEND OF NOV. 22nd 1963 REMAIN PAINFUL TO WATCH EVEN IN 2013 Have optimism & […]

  This column was originally posted Saturday Nov. 16th but is now being re-published Friday Nov. 22nd at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time to coincide with the hour President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed 50 years ago this day and date in Dallas (12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time).  Flags fly at half-staff to- day […]