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April 14, 2016 2 Comments
As children, we were told, “Don’t touch that. It’s dirty.” Our parents taught us not to pick up candy on the street and put it into our mouths. We learned dirty is bad. Clean is good. The word “dirty” now ...
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Read More »February 18, 2016 Comments Off on Letter to the Editor: Wrong reason but right decision on outside counsel for Baltimore police investigation
The Editorial Advisory Board’s endorsing of the decision by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and City Solicitor George Nilson to hire the Washington law firm WilmerHale to represent the city during the investigation by the Department of Justice into the Baltimore ...
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Read More »August 13, 2015 1 Comment
I was dismayed that the Editorial Advisory Board opinion of Aug. 6, “Neither trophies nor trinkets,” was printed since the article was riddled with so many inaccuracies and contradictions. It is a shame that most Americans who could not even ...
Read More »June 22, 2015 Comments Off on Letter to the Editor: Repeal the Baltimore container tax
What will it take for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake and the Baltimore City Council to realize that it is their very own policies that are forcing many Baltimore city residents to live in “food deserts?” In the June 10, 2015 ...
Read More »March 12, 2015 1 Comment
Today, 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the United States are used in industrial farms that provide the vast majority of the meat and poultry we eat.
Read More »March 12, 2015 Comments Off on Letter to the editor: Taking issue with headline on port story
I was very disappointed in your choice of a headline (“Port didn't stack up,” March 5) in an article that Adam Bednar wrote about impacts to the Port of Baltimore from a West Coast port labor dispute.
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Read More »February 11, 2015 45 Comments
"Fourteen years ago we obtained a constitutionally valid conviction by jury of Adnan Syed," says prosecutor Kevin Urick. "What is transpiring now is an example of defense tactics at their worst."
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Read More »January 8, 2015 Comments Off on Letter to the Editor: At UB Law, students get ‘great head start’
Dear Alicia, Thank you for your open letter to the University of Baltimore School of Law, published at TheDailyRecord.com on Dec. 30.
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Read More »October 30, 2014 Comments Off on Letters to the editor: Oct. 31, 2014
The Daily Record’s Oct. 16 article “Businesses, politicians bemoan spread of methadone clinics” reflects ongoing misunderstanding of methadone, which is an effective treatment for addiction to heroin and other opioids.
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Read More »May 1, 2014 Comments Off on Letter to the editor – 5/1/14: Response to ‘For A.G., it’s Frosh vs. not-Ben’
C. Fraser Smith’s paean to Sen. Brian Frosh (April 25, “For A.G., it’s Frosh vs. not-Ben”) seems focused on the fact that “Inside State Circle” he would be the favorite. Yet for someone who has been in the legislature for decades, Mr. Smith does not single out even one piece of legislation Mr. Frosh has sponsored. He’s just a favorite of the “inside players.”
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