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Way Downstream
In Annapolis, Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley noted while campaigning for governor that he has less fear than some fathers now that his daughters, Grace, 14, and Tara, 13, have begun going to movies with boys. “When I drop them off, the gentleman doing the driving is armed. That sends a clear message,” he said, speaking recently in front of the District 30 Democratic Club … Also in Annapolis, Coretta Scott King will join her husband on the campus of Anne Arundel Community College at the King memorial, planned as a larger-than-life statue of Dr. King surrounded by a story wall, telling the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Carl Snowden, chairman of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Committee, says one of the plaques in the story will be devoted to Mrs. King, who died January 30. The modification won’t change the design or the cost, $250,000 with $150,00 still to be raised. The two Kings will be unveiled at the college August 28. Around Maryland, on the first birthday of the Flush Tax, some $40.2 million has been collected by charging sewer and septic users for flushing the nitrogen that pollutes Chesapeake Bay. Seven wastewater treatment plants have installed the enhanced nutrient removal system that will keep nitrogen and phosphorus out of our waters; 12 others are in design and 29 more in planning… In Washington, the White House wants to chip in big bucks to boost an environmental priority of Gov. Robert Ehrlich. The new federal budget includes $6 million for the Corsica River pilot project, which aims to restore 200 acres of forested buffers, wetlands, stream channels and aquatic vegetation on the Eastern Shore … Our Creature Feature comes from Romania, where film icon and animal lover Brigitte Bardot has leaped into a feud over what to do about packs of dogs roaming the streets of Bucharest. By some estimates, there are 100,000 dogs running loose in the city, a legacy from the Ceausescu era when people were driven from homes. After a Japanese tourist was bitten to death recently, the campaign to rid the streets of strays resumed, prompting Bardot to declare in a radio message to Romanians: “When I think that the only way that has been found is to kill them, I tell you it’s not nice what your government is doing.” |
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