VoB SELECTS:  INVESTIGATIVE NEWS FROM AROUND THE WEB   NOW-NO. 3 HAMBURGER CHAIN ANNOUNCES MAJOR MAKEOVER Burger King, long the world’s No. 2 hamburger chain, is going public for the second time. After announcing a major overhaul of its menu and restaurants last week, the now-No. 5 U.S. restaurant chain — behind McDonald’s, Subway, […]

    THERE IS NO GOOD ALTERNATIVE, THEY SAY, AT ISSUE  IS PROTECTION  OF THE PLANET; DEMONSTRATION MOVES TO HDQ. OF EPA Justice for Trayvon Martin, teen killed in Fla., is also subject  of protest  in nation’s capital   By Kaitlin Nëwman   It was a week of peaceful protests all around the country. From […]

  BALTIMORE POET JULIE FISHER PUBLISHES  INITIAL BOOK OF COLLECTED VERSE I am just a skittering thing. Tiny eyes ambering at the edge of the clearing. — Lines from ‘Skittering Thing’   By Anthony C. Hayes   Skitter:  to skip or glide lightly along a surface; to move hurriedly with frequent light contacts or changes […]

  TWIN INCIDENTS OF ‘OVERZEALOUS BEHAVIOR’ 2 Jewish brothers get their day this week in court; shooter of Florida teen still has not been charged   By Alan Z. Forman   When the 20-something Werdesheim Brothers finally get their day this week in court for allegedly attacking a black teenager in November 2010 who they […]

  E. MONUMENT ST. BRANCH PICKETED BY OCCUPY BALTIMORE PROTESTERS   Wells Fargo was “evicted” Thursday — symbolically — from its East Baltimore branch on Monument St. by Occupy Baltimore protesters and a Good Jobs Better Baltimore “sheriff” who gathered to serve notice on the banking giant that they would no longer accept what the […]