TIMONIUM SPORTS BAR AND RESTAURANT WILL AGAIN SPONSOR  ANNUAL CONTEST TO  RAISE AWARENESS OF CHILD ABUSE Event benefits charitable Ed Block Courage Awards LAST YEAR’S WINNER TO BE CELEBRITY JUDGE   By Maria Amoruso   Think you can sing?  Professionally?  And win a vocal competition in front of an SRO audience at a popular […]

  AMERICA’S FIXATION WITH THE FORECAST IS HARD TO EXPLAIN Memorial Day Weekend focuses new attention on cool temperature Talkin’  ’bout  Bob Turk… — 1980s weatherization of the Temptations’  1965 hit   By David Maril   Why are we Americans so obsessed with television, radio and Internet weather forecasts? It’s as if we crave details […]

  POLITICIANS  SHOULD  HAVE  TO  BUY  ‘PODIUM TIME’ TO SPEAK AT HIGH SCHOOL, COLLEGE GRADUATIONS   By David Maril   High school and college commencements represent significant milestones. Why, then, on such an important day for graduates and their families, are so many keynote speakers duds? Too often colleges and high schools settle for tiresome hacks who […]

GASOLINE POWERED GRASS-CUTTING NOISE REPRESENTS UNWELCOME SIGN OF SPRING Who decided rakes and brooms should be obsolete?   By David Maril   How often has this happened to you? Arriving home early from work and a little weary, you find the house empty and decide to take a nap to catch up on a couple […]

  FREE STATE DISTRIBUTES NEARLY TWICE AS MANY PHONES TO PEOPLE ON PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AS ARE QUALIFIED TO RECEIVE THEM ONLY OKLAHOMA’S RECORD OF ABUSE IS WORSE   A controversial program that provides free cellphone service to Americans on public assistance came under intense scrutiny Thursday as a congressional subcommittee overseeing the Federal Communications Commission’s […]