Why all this cash for so few students?

August 8, 2007

The last MARC train from Washington to Baltimore wasn't more than 15 minutes out of Union Station on Thursday when the woman seated next to me asked my opinion of Andres Alonso, the poor soul who decided to take on the job as Baltimore's latest in a string of school chief executive officers.

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Let's bag those criticisms of plastic

August 3, 2007

I recently bought three bottles of water, which the cashier promptly placed in a plastic bag, doubling it for good measure.

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Solutions for city, solutions for suburbs

August 5, 2007

Few things are as tiresome as listening to a couple of middle-aged suburbanites, neither of whom live within 30 miles of Baltimore, trash the city, smugly ridicule efforts to improve the social conditions at the heart of its most challenging problems and dismiss the idea that some people might actually want to live here.

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  August 2, 2007

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  July 29, 2007

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  July 26, 2007

Schaefer pops up at a new location

August 7, 2007

Spend half a century in public service and you can expect to get your name on a building or two, but never an honor of this magnitude: a William Donald Schaefer tattoo.

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  August 5, 2007

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