The following column appears in the September issue of The Business Monthly serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties The Red Cross really wants my blood. They email me and phone me repeatedly until I make an appointment. They really want my blood because it is O...
The following column appears in the August edition of The Business Monthly, serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties. Last year, there were three murders at the Columbia Mall – a double-homicide outside the mall and a murder in the food court. The murders of young men...
Howard County officially raised its new flag Monday in front of the county’s George Howard Building in Ellicott City. The design by long-time county resident and designer Esen Paradiso won a year-long competition that attracted 209 entries from 102 individuals. The...
Several thousand people lined one of the busiest intersections near the Columbia Mall Saturday to protest President Trump as part of “No Kings Nationwide Day of Defiance” Saturday morning. Events like this were happening all over Maryland and the nation organized by...
MORE BUDGET CUT FOR STATE UNIVERSITIES: Campuses in the University System of Maryland were warned Thursday afternoon to brace for another 7% cut to their budgets in the coming year, on top of the 4% the system was forced to absorb as part of a statewide budget...
Del. Jessica Feldmark made official Wednesday what was well-known in Democratic circles for months: She’s running for Howard County executive next year to succeed Calvin Ball who is term limited. A crowd of more than 150 people filled the North Pavilion at Blandair...
The following column appears in the May issue of The Business Monthly, serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties. I got a phone call from an old friend in the tech industry a week before the legislature closed up shop April 7. He wanted to know if the proposed 3% tax...
Eighty years ago, on April 1, a Sunday in 1945, seven troop divisions, four Army, three Marine, landed on the beaches of Okinawa, a remote tropical island the size of Prince George’s County.
Dan Rupli, lawyer, congressional candidate, civil rights enforcer and progressive activist, died Thursday at 82 from a fall and complications of dementia. Dan first came to prominence in 1976 when he mounted a liberal challenge to Rep. Goodloe Byron in the 6th...
This column appears in the March issue of The Business Monthly serving Howard and Anne Arundel counties. A half century ago, I spent a year in the belly of the federal bureaucracy at the Social Security Administration. I was a GS-7 in the Health Insurance Inquiries...
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