Features:

We Get By with a Little Help from Our Friends ~ Step by step, one by one, climbing Maslow’s ladder; by Janice F. Booth

Another Person's Treasure ~ Inventive teens reincarnate trash into art; by Carrie Steele

The Trouble with Piers ~ How big is too big? by Carrie Steele

Way Downstream ~ Maryland Sens. Paul Sarbanes and Barbara Mikulski and Virginia Sen. John Warner seek a White House task force on what’s gone wrong with Bay Restoration - Del. Don Dwyer gets an early start on prohibiting gay marriage - Learn first hand from scientist-author William Cronin about the Bay’s Disappearing Islands — and buy a copy of his book — at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, which is full of migratory birds - Wal-Mart tagged by federal immigration agents for another cost-cutting strategy - plus last but not least, this week’s Creature Feature: India’s sacred vultures to get donations from the faithful.

Departments:

Editorial • Letters to the Editor • Commentary

EarthTalk ~ Santa Baby, bring me no junk mail for Christmas

Dr. Gouin’s Bay Gardener ~ Bring home a fire-safe Christmas tree

Bill Burton ~ The sorry state of our Bay; Part 1: faint hopes

Tidelog® • Sky Watch ~ Looking through time at Andomeda; by J. Alex Knoll

8 Days a Week ~ Bay Weekly’s guide to good times; by Carrie Steele

Music Notes

Flickerings ~ Parker on Walk the Line: “Delivering excitement and energy in truckloads.” Plus The Ice Harvest; Just Friends; Rent; Yours, Mine & Ours

Free Will Astrology©

News of the Weird©

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