Unfortunately, as reported recently in The Washington Post, the compromises built into the legislation in 1997, in order to get the General Ass...

As our school system and county address the varying issues that surround this topic, there continues to be a heightened level of concern among students, parents and employees.

Our schools and central offices get dozens of phone calls daily from anxious p...

The item on the agenda was not a golf course but a proposed 20-year lease for a west county community center. But everyone knew that Vitale was referring to the Compass Pointe Golf Course in Pasaden...

Political pundits thought that this was Cohen's election to lose, but a strange Democratic primary in which he placed second made this election too risky to call. Eventually, the party base that handed Zina Pierre a primary victory shifted its suppo...

And we think that, on balance, it will prove to be a good deal for Marylanders in general, and customers of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. - Constellation's subsidiary - in particular.

Yesterday Constellation and EDF announced that ...

For one thing, that turnout was just 32 percent, lower than the four previous elections. For another, the number of registered voters in the city has declined since 2005, even as the population edged upward.

If there's another meager turnout tomorrow, the candidates - particularl...

The doctor is holding up a big and very expensive bottle of pills, and remarking triumphantly: "See? I was right to prescribe this. It's doing wonders for your headaches."

The patient, meanwhile, is holding his head in his hands and moaning. "But Doc, my head still feels awful. In fact, I think it hurts more."

Replies the doctor: "Yeah, but you'd f...

Really - did anyone think that two professional pilots could be so absorbed in their laptops that they overshot their destination by 150 miles and didn't hear 91 minutes of radio communication?

The two Northwest pilots lost their licenses after ...

The once-every-10-years census - required by the U.S. Constitution - now goes back 220 years. Originally just a means of taking a head count to use in apportioning legislative districts, the census is now the key to allocating money for inn...

It is trying to be in the forefront of the inevitable national switch to "smart" electric meters that show customers how much their power use costs them at any given time, allowing them to adjust that use accordingly.

The utility's efforts got a boost this week from...

First, let me be clear, I did not introduce the topic of race into the discussion, I merely responded to the question that I was asked, "Do you think this (cont...

What Gov. Martin O'Malley actually told the state's school superintendents, at a meeting in Annapolis last week, was, "There's nothing that focuses the mind li...

This is an excellent idea, and one we hope the board considers.

It would be impossible to overstate Brown's influence on students during his decades as a teacher ...

My 16-year-old son has autism; his ability to process the things he hears is extremely poor and he struggles to communicate and interact with other kids and adults.

His first several years in the Anne Arundel County Public Schools were successful. But as he entered the sixth grad...

City Council members attend to constituent complaints and are the voice of the ward in government. Because there has been general disappointment with city government, it is critical for voters t...