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 be on Friday: •  DISASTER IN DENVER:  BRONCOS DESTROY RAVENS IN SEASON OPENER AS HOOTERS OVERFLOWS Hooters […]

  DO VIEWERS REALLY NEED A PACKAGE INCLUDING  HUNDREDS OF STATIONS THEY’LL IGNORE AND NEVER WATCH? Would anyone buy a full course meal at lunchtime if all they wanted was a bowl of soup & crackers?   By David Maril   New cable stations and networks are being created all the time. Fox is adding […]

  WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY 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 be on Friday:   •  MISSISSIPPI-STYLE RIVERBOAT SOLD FOR $357K AT CANTON AUCTION The Liberty Belle, which operated in Philadelphia […]

  WELL-WRITTEN MESSAGING HAS BECOME A LOST ART IN THE COMPUTER AGE Name abbreviation equals poor communication in the extreme ‘I.P.’ WRITTEN FOR VoB BY ‘D’   By David Maril   The more sophisticated we become with communication technology the more primitive and impersonal our messaging seems to be. Emailing and texting have grown into […]

  PRESSURE  ON  PREPUBESCENT  ATHLETES, EXPLOITATION BY CORPORATIONS & TV IS UNHEALTHY  AND  UNCALLED FOR ‘Winning is the only thing’ is  being  taught  to  kids at way too young an age   By David Maril   Nothing epitomizes the dog days of August more than the arrival of the Little League Baseball World Series, one […]