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...plate luncheon for two-term Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, whose tough district is closely watched by the national party. On Wednesday, the President is to make remarks on ?the War on Terror? at the Navy Academy, in Annapolis, Md., then speak at a reception for Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele-a U.S. Senate hopeful who is the first black elected official to hold statewide office in ?the Free State,? and one of the party's marquee candidates for the year-at M&T Bank Stadium, home of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens. State Republicans said that tickets for the business-attire...
...Baltimore school system needed to try something new too. Each year administrators scramble to fill some 800 teacher vacancies. Statewide, Maryland requires 6,000 new teachers annually, but its colleges and universities produce just 2,500, and only the most altruistic of them choose to work in urban schools, where the challenges range from trying to raise low test scores to tending to students who are homeless or whose parents are on drugs. The No Child Left Behind Act, which requires schools to meet certain standards or risk losing federal funding, has intensified the need for good teachers in poor...
...Many of our neighbors are elderly and are challenged by the thoughts of rebuilding. Others have settled in areas nearby, and have their children in school. They are acheiving the normalcy we all seek, but while we live in a great Maryland community, safe and secure, we also seek what we had all along, "our own place...
...normally soft-spoken co-captain says, “that’s when I started playing. I was the only girl on a boys’ team up until sixth grade.”Years before she headlined a regional powerhouse at Sidwell Friends High School in Maryland, earned the nickname “Smooth Operator” from The Washington Post, and so consistently dominated the Washington, D.C., area’s Independent School League that she earned honorable mention from the famed McDonald’s All-America team; and even longer before she paced...
After last week's sweep, Republicans occupy a total of 31 statehouses (or as many as 33 depending on the final tallies in Maryland and Alaska), the first time they have had a majority since 1970. While keeping every Republican-held governorship, the G.O.P. gained seven states in open races and ousted four sitting Democrats, including the party's sharpest tongue, Ann Richards of Texas, and its smoothest, Cuomo, who couldn't talk voters into forgetting New York's high taxes. To the great advantage of the next G.O.P. presidential candidate, seven of the eight largest states will...