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October 29, 2009 Comments Off on ‘Unconferences’ extend Web2.0 to events
I spent last Friday at the State Theater, a popular entertainment venue in Falls Church, Va. – but not at a show. I attended the third (and final) Blog Potomac “unconference,” a congregation of social media marketing enthusiasts from the ...
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Read More »October 29, 2009 Comments Off on Commentary: Hate-crimes bill protects free speech
After years of heated debate, the Senate gave final approval on Oct. 22 to legislation already passed by the House that expands federal hate-crimes statutes to include sexual orientation and gender identity. President Obama signed it into law Oct. 28. ...
Read More »October 29, 2009 Comments Off on Shadow government redux
Things happen. You wake up some morning and you’ve got a complex web of half-city and half-private corporations taking on a variety of government projects. There’s even a $100 million city-run bank. Only a handful of people know anything about ...
Tagged with: C. Fraser Smith
Read More »October 29, 2009 Comments Off on Editorial: Education, not censorship
The Maryland General Assembly, in its infinite wisdom, has gone blundering for no good reason into a minefield of Constitutional issues involving censorship, freedom of speech and academic freedom. Our only consolation is that the legislators are getting guidance on ...
Read More »October 26, 2009 Comments Off on Editorial Advisory Board: Increase filing fees to ensure access to justice
One of the cornerstones of our civil society is the belief that all people, regardless of race, religion, or income level, should have access to an impartial and reliable legal system. This conviction, always deeply held among the members of ...
Read More »October 25, 2009 Comments Off on Eight years later, Austin keeps fighting
“The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance” – Frederick Douglass Eight years after being released from prison at the age of 53 after advances in technology confirmed his innocence, Michael Austin is still fighting. Fighting to integrate into a society ...
Read More »October 23, 2009 Comments Off on Flattened world spells changes for judiciary
“The World Is Flat,” announced columnist and author Thomas L. Friedman in his book of the same name, described on its cover as “A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.” In that book, first published in 2005, Friedman describes “the ...
Read More »October 22, 2009 Comments Off on Editorial: 100 years of Yellow
One hundred years ago this month, the Yellow Cab Company began taking Baltimoreans where they wanted to go when they wanted to go. Today the oldest known Yellow Cab business in the country operates 600 of the city’s 1,151 cabs ...
Read More »October 21, 2009 Comments Off on Now the feds are pushing ‘smart growth’
The recent meeting in Frederick was billed as the Sixth Annual Mid-Atlantic Regional Planning Roundtable, an opportunity for representatives of metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs, using federal jargon) in Maryland and neighboring states to compare notes on the challenges they face. ...
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Read More »October 19, 2009 Comments Off on To save, you’ve got to spend less
Any financial planning process begins with a change in behavior and expectations. The degree of change varies based on financial priorities, but in the end, it’s about adopting new habits and abandoning others. Before you take any of the following ...
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