No comprendo: Catholics who support Trump With one exception, for those ardently opposed to abortion, votes for Trump went against most Church teaching.

Catholics who say Leo should refrain from making comments about Trump’s war-making are displaying the same ignorance of papal duty that their cult leader does.
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No pet peeve, a real issue for our communities: Huge, empty parking lots as more stores close This might sound like a pet peeve by now — I have previously registered this complaint in my columns and essays — but calling it that tends to demean it as a genuine issue that should be confronted…

Convert these asphalt deserts to parkland with trees

Judge: “I think it’s kind of hard to even pass the laugh test, that the transformation of a logistics warehouse into a detention center would be eligible for [environmental] exclusions.”
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Dan Rodricks: Preserving memorial to those who fought for Union Inside an old Lansdowne church in Baltimore County, one of Maryland's memorials to Americans who fought to preserve the Union during the Civil War now faces an uncertain future.

There aren't enough tributes to those who served in the Civil War to save the country, so it would be a fine thing to keep this one, in a Baltimore County church, from falling away.
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Vapid Vice-President Vance tells Pope Leo XIV to stay in his lane As if the Trump-Netanyahu war is not a matter of morality.

As if war wasn't a matter of morality . . .
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Monologues and memories in my hometown @southshore.news

Another Trump assault on justice, the environmental kind His latest budget again tries to eliminate a 'woke' program at the EPA designed to help poor and minority communities harmed by pollution.

Trump continues assault on EPA's efforts to help poor and minority in communities facing pollution problems
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Girls Ice Hockey: Tryouts for tournament teams April 11-12 #hockey #Maryland @usahockey.bsky.social

On stage with stories April 11 in Massachusetts A South Shore Anthology is about small-town life then and now

Yes, you can go home again
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Crass hypocrisy: Trump arguing war on behalf of children "A true investment in your children and your grandchildren’s future.”

When Trump finally speaks of children and the future, it's only to defend his war on Iran.
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Up to 80% of immigrants arrested under Trump had no criminal record Good data-based story in The Baltimore Banner, but . . .

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Trump promised 25 million jobs while deporting millions. How's that worked out? So, 10 years later, immigrants are leaving the U.S. and the workforce

Trump is the worst jobs president in American history.
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No Kings, Baltimore County

No Kings Day #Baltimore York Road

Herb Alpert, who turns 91 on March 31, performing in the Lyric Opera House, Baltimore, last night: "Nice to play in a building that's older than me." baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-...

Dan Rodricks: Federal law hinders Chesapeake blue catfish market A federal regulation that favors the catfish farming industry in the Mississippi Delta is holding back the Chesapeake's blue catfish market.

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Orioles opening day introductions will soon include David Rubenstein's podiatrist.

TSA workers have been going a month with no paycheck and they’re pissed that ICE agents are getting paid to chill and play airport cop.

“TSA officers are sickened that we have unqualified DHS employees walking the airports, with pay, while we all suffer doing our qualified work unpaid.”

Dan Can Cook: Poached salmon salad Apology: I forgot to take a picture of the subject dish — a poached salmon salad. The photo with this post is borrowed from some other amateur chef. But don’t let that stop you from try…

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Florida Democrats Win Special Election in Mar-a-Lago’s District

The Sick-Of-Trump vote: Florida Democrats Win Special Election in Mar-a-Lago’s District
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Pete Hegseth's Holy War Raining "death and destruction" in the name of Jesus Christ.

The Manchild in The Pentagon
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Trump’s Reaction to Mueller’s Death: ‘Good, I’m Glad.’

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The adventurous musician and 'spirtual explorer' who came back from the dead: Ian Hesford baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-...

Citizen Action: No Kings Day, March 28, along York Road, Baltimore and Towson; food donations sought I received this notice about an upcoming No Kings Day event on the north side of Baltimore. Passing it along: On March 28, 12 noon to 1:30 pm, Marylanders will join together for York Road Free Speech Miles, a peaceful multi-mile sign-wave running along York Road from the county line through the 21212, 21204, and 21286 zip codes. York Road Free Speech Miles is organized by…

Citizen Action: No Kings Day, March 28, along York Road, Baltimore and Towson; food donations sought

I received this notice about an upcoming No Kings Day event on the north side of Baltimore. Passing it along: On March 28, 12 noon to 1:30 pm, Marylanders will join together for York Road Free…

A Golden Anniversary: When Baltimore embraced Crack The Sky like no other city It happened on March 18, 1976. Here's the story, first published in my Baltimore Sun column: The origin story of Crack The Sky, the progressive rock band that became a sensation and legend in Baltimore, if nowhere else, could have been the inspiration for a couple of music-rich movies, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and “The Blues Brothers.” I’ll tell you why.

A Golden Anniversary: When Baltimore embraced Crack The Sky like no other city

It happened on March 18, 1976. Here's the story, first published in my Baltimore Sun column: The origin story of Crack The Sky, the progressive rock band that became a sensation and legend in Baltimore, if nowhere else,…

A tree falls in a storm, and immigrants are there to clear it The high-profile purging of these hard-working, law-abiding people is not just cruel, but impractical and self-defeating.

Monday's high winds took down a mighty sycamore, and the mighty sycamore mortally wounded a tall pine. Then a crew of Spanish-speaking workers showed up, and wow!
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Diminished, we are, by the deaths of Iranian schoolchildren A Trump twist on the spoils of war.

The children's bodies lay at the end of a line that runs from the day in May 2018 when Trump gave the finger to President Obama and our allies and tore up the 159-page Iran nuclear deal.
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Wooden baseball bats: Exclusive clubs It turned out that the hardest props to find for "No Mean City: Baltimore 1966" were wooden baseball bats. Outside of professional baseball, they are pretty much collector's items, not commonly for sale in sporting goods stores. Our intrepid props hunter went to a Play It Again Sports store just outside Baltimore and found dozens of used and new bats for sale -- all metal.

The hunt for a wooden Louisville Slugger

NO MEAN MERCH: The slogan, Baltimore: No Mean City, is taken from my play, "No Mean City: Baltimore 1966." Those words, "no mean city," come from Saint Paul in the Book of Acts, meaning not an insignificant or ordinary city. Priced affordably and available online: youhavenoidea.org/shop