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Article - News; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 1/12/12

Going to Annapolis?

Circulating is now free

Going to Annapolis? Since cars claimed roads designed for horse traffic, parking has made visiting our capital city easier by boat than by car. Where to put the vehicles that bring the city a million visitors each year has kept city planners scratching their heads. Over the month of December, free parking and trolley make the city more welcoming, and its shopping and cultural opportunities more...

Article - News; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 1/12/12

Who’s Up to What

People on the move in the Maryland General Assembly

Lawmaking is not the only thing on the minds of the members of Maryland’s 430th General Assembly. Among local highlights: Looking for New Jobs A trio of local Republicans likes public service so well that this year’s General Assembly could be a distraction to their long-range planning. Tony O’Donnell, five-term delegate from southern Calvert and St. Mary’s County, has climbed the ladder of Republican Statehouse politics. From party...

Article - News; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 1/12/12

Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies

Previews of the Maryland General Assembly

Americans have a thing for lawlessness. If we had a mantra, it might go something like this: The fewer laws the better — except as they benefit us personally. From the Pilgrims, Conquistadors and New Dutch to explorers, pioneers and cowboys — not to mention robber barons — we’ve made our own laws. Nobody better tell us what to do. That strain of individual liberty is today...

Article - News; by Margaret Tearman - 11/10/11

Digging the Information Highway

Road by road, broadband Internet is snaking your way

What are they doing on the side of the road? They’re cutting trees and bush-hogging to clear a path. They’re trenching a couple of feet into the earth along roadways. They’re feeding bright orange conduit into those trenches. They’re threading fiber optic cable into the conduit. They’re bringing the world to your door, those men and women working inches from your speeding car. The peripatetic roadwork up...

Article - News; by Chuck Erskine - 11/10/11

Hot Off the Shelf

Library patrons line up to check out Kindles and Nooks

Packing your books for your vacation adds pounds to your baggage and with airline fees, stress on your budget. What would you say if you could pack more than 1,000 books in a container smaller than even today’s phone books? Wannabe eReaders in Anne Arundel County said Yes, Please! By noon on the first day of issue, Nov. 2, Anne Arundel library’s 200 portable readers had been checked out by eager patrons. ...

Article - News; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 11/3/11

Watch the Time

Value a watch not for what it tells you but for what it says about you

What’s the value of time? Told time, that is — not the priceless sort that keeps slipping into the past, flinging you into the future. When every cell phone tells the time and more, who needs a watch, let alone a fine watch that costs thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars? That was my question to Steve Hammalian, who is throwing a seminar on the who’s, what’s, how’s of watches...

Article - News; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 10/27/11

Aliens Among Us

It’s harvest time for Genetically-Modified Organisms

This isn’t the movies. It’s real life. Surrounding you left and right. But you don’t see it — any more than Dr. Kate Lloyd and her team of Norwegian expeditionaries recognize The Thing. Through October, the local aliens have gilded the countryside, improving your vista as you travel Maryland highways. Lately, the gold has been fading to sere brown. In the last days of October, farmers will drive their combines into the fields, harvesting soybeans that...

Article - News; by Sandra Olivetti Martin - 10/20/11

Greening the U.S. Boat Shows

From 800 pounds of trash rise the prospect of ‘an entirely green event’

Beneath the marketplace of dreams that is the U.S. Boat Shows runs a stream of waste. That’s the conclusion of the first ever audit of the waste produced by one of the shows, this year’s Sail Boat Show. While you were slipping off your shoes, stepping aboard sleek sailboats and sipping Pusser’s Painkillers, a pair of sustainability managers from the environmental strategies firm WasteStrategies were sorting through 800...

Article - News; by Karen Rust - 10/13/11

Sign Posters Beware

Roadside advertising now brings a fine of $25 a sign

Winterizing! We come to your boat! must not have heard. Free advertising space is no longer free. Starting October 1, invasive signs posted along Maryland state highways were not only illegal but also fineable. Starting January 1, posters of invasive signs face a fine of $25 for each sign The targeted signs are mostly commercial ones, said Valerie Burnette Edgar of the State Highway Administration. “Placing signs in our right-of-way is not...

Article - News; by Dick Wilson - 10/6/11

Stretching a Line to History

The new Chesapeake Beach Railway Trail

The Chesapeake Beach Railway has always been a passage to altered states. It was laid a century ago to link the sweltering city of Washington with cooling Bay waters, breezes and panoply of fun. When cars pushed trains off the map, nature took back its right of way. This week, the final three miles of the old railway reopened as the Chesapeake Beach Railway Trail to take you back to nature through the gateway of history. From the Chesapeake Beach Water Park, the trail...

Features (News)

Going to Annapolis?

Who’s Up to What

Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies

Digging the Information Highway

Hot Off the Shelf

Watch the Time

Aliens Among Us

Greening the U.S. Boat Shows

Sign Posters Beware

Stretching a Line to History

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