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Puzzling out that church-state split
For Michael Meyerson, the Great Seal of the United States encapsulates the struggle over the relationship between religion and government that has become a defining characteristic of our nation. The front of the seal, with its famous eagle, olive branch...
Tags: Interreligious Dialogue, Politics, Justice and Rights, Church and State Relations, Government
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Ethics oversight board hasn't met in years
Baltimore's ethics director is in charge of advising elected officials and fielding constituent complaints about them. It's unclear, however, if anyone is overseeing him. A seven-member oversight panel, the Board of Legislative Reference, is...Tags: Committee for Zoning Integrity, Politics, Robert W. Curran, David S. Brown Enterprises Ltd., Values
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City voters change election cycle, require more audits
Baltimore voters were poised to approve four charter amendments Tuesday, including one to move city elections to the same years that the nation chooses a president. The city would hold its next election in 2016, under one of the changes leading by...Tags: Science and Technology, Politics, Bonds, Culture, Arts and Culture
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On Pennsylvania Avenue, a fresh library offers a look back
As old photographs of local jazz musicians flashed on a screen, those gathered in the Pennsylvania Avenue branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Druid Heights on Monday night shouted out names or furrowed their brows, racking their memories for old...Tags: Arts and Culture, Libraries, Travel, International Travel, Tuberculosis
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City voters to weigh election cycle, other issues
Baltimore City residents will vote next week on whether to elect city officials at the same time they cast their ballots for president — but their choice could be merely symbolic. State lawmakers passed a measure this year to align city elections...
Tags: Maryland Science Center, Politics, Rivers, Lawyers, Government
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Common Cause questions city ethics director's fitness for job
Common Cause Maryland questioned Friday whether the city's ethics board director is fit for the job after he acknowledged that he was performing legal work on behalf of developers with business interests in Baltimore. "This raises questions about his...Tags: Judges, Committee for Zoning Integrity, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Morris A. Mechanic Theatre
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State, city program gives security guards police powers
![The two men wore body armor with "POLICE" written across the chest and spilled out of their unmarked car, weapons drawn, ordering Christopher Dukes and his passenger out of their vehicle at a South Baltimore gas station parking lot. When Dukes pulled off, they embarked on a high-speed chase down Interstate 295 until catching up and placing the pair under arrest, charging documents show.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-10/72970136-22153626.jpg "The two men wore body armor with "POLICE\" written across the chest and spilled out of their unmarked car, weapons drawn, ordering Christopher Dukes and his passenger out of their vehicle at a South Baltimore gas station parking lot. When Dukes pulled off, they embarked on a high-speed chase down Interstate 295 until catching up and placing the pair under arrest, charging documents show.")
The two men wore body armor with "POLICE" written across the chest and spilled out of their unmarked car, weapons drawn, ordering Christopher Dukes and his passenger out of their vehicle at a South Baltimore gas station parking lot. When Dukes pulled off,...Tags: Police Arrests, Cecil County, Elkton, IHOP Corporation, Baltimore Convention Center
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A 'classical revolution' is spreading in Baltimore
It was a quiet night for a revolution. People at the bar in Joe Squared Station North sat huddled over drinks and conversations. Folks occasionally strolled in to pick up pizza orders or headed to dining tables in the back. Few even glanced at the...
Tags: Music, Maryland Science Center, Charles Street, Edgar Allan Poe, Talk Shows (genre)
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The collected poems of Lucille Clifton
Former Maryland poet laureate Lucille Clifton was a former "Jeopardy" champion who used a Ouija board to communicate with her dead mother. She was a survivor of childhood sexual abuse who as an adult unabashedly celebrated her physical self. And in the...
Tags: Cancer, Poetry, Kevin Young, Arts and Culture, Human Interest
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Where to find local flu clinics
The flu can strike people starting in October, so Maryland health officials are rolling out their flu vaccine clinics. People can also get flu shots at most pharmacies, doctors' offices and sometimes at work. Everyone 6 months and older should get a flu...
Tags: Harford County, Randallstown, Hospitals and Clinics, Glen Burnie, Flu
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Is Marc Steiner smarter than a sixth grader?
The Baltimore SunIs Marc Steiner smarter than Denise Koch? Can the president of Baltimore's City Council outwit the president of a local college? Are any of them brainier than your average sixth grader? Baltimore will find out Saturday when local celebrities play "Are...Tags: Entertainment Events, Colleges and Universities, Edgar Allan Poe, Education, Academy Awards
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The white advocate for the Harlem Renaissance
For more that two decades, author Emily Bernard has been fascinated by Carl Van Vechten, a white man who played a seminal — and controversial — role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. She was in turns appalled by Vechten's...
Tags: Central Park, Fine Artists, Racism, Artists, Culture
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