Constitutional Issues

Ron Paul is sweeping the GOP youth vote

2012-01-25 15:17:05

Across the country, the youth vote is down. Registration is low. Voter enthusiasm for Republican candidates has been lackluster. Unless that candidate's name is Ron Paul. The 76-year-old U.S. representative from Texas has energized — and gained &#...

Re-energizing young voters

2012-01-25 17:06:10

DeJanee Fennell hears the excuses. Young people are apathetic. Young people are sick of politics. Young people have given up. But Fennell doesn't buy that. The 20-year-old junior at Morgan State University knows President Barack Obama needs the youth...

Hessie Abraham Davidson

2011-09-25 00:00:00

Hessie Abraham Davidson, former chairman of the Davidson Transfer & Storage Co., who counted among his many interesting and challenging moving jobs overseeing the moving of the U.S. Constitution, died Sept. 18 of complications from a stroke at Springhouse...

Arrest at Inner Harbor renews free speech debate

2011-09-19 17:18:00

The arrest of a man selling paintings at Baltimore's Inner Harbor has renewed debate over the confusing rules governing free speech along the waterfront promenade — an issue that already is the focus of an eight-year-old federal lawsuit. City...

Spray-paint artist arrested at Inner Harbor

2011-09-18 18:57:00

A spray-paint artist who recently won a temporary court order that allows him to create his work along Ocean City's boardwalk without a permit was arrested Sunday at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Mark Chase was arrested about noon when he attempted to set up...

Ocean City artist sues town

2011-09-12 18:20:00

Spray-paint artist Mark Chase typically spends his summers in Ocean City along the boardwalk where he creates sci-fi landscapes in a matter of minutes, spraying and smudging to pulsating music as crowds gather. He earns his living as a showman, taking...

Frederick W. Glassberg, community developer

2011-09-18 19:46:01

Frederick W. Glassberg, a one-time Rouse Co. executive who became a prominent real estate and community developer in Howard County, died Sept. 15 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Columbia of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 77. A native of...

New details revealed in Catonsville terrorism investigation

2011-09-27 16:33:00

Antonio Martinez — aka Muhammad Hussein — was pretty sure he was being set up. A car bomb had been handed to him, and two volunteers he barely knew were suddenly on board with a jihadist plot to murder military personnel in Catonsville. But...

Killing al-Awlaki was a political stunt unworthy of a great nation

2011-10-05 04:00:00

Some in our government are claiming that U.S.-born anti-American Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in self defense by a C.I.A.-operated drone; they expect us to buy the nonsense that America, a huge and powerful nation was so terrified of this...

Studies project millions in tax revenue from Rosecroft slots

2011-10-05 17:30:00

Renewed jostling to expand gambling in the state began Wednesday as a national casino operator painted its proposal to build a casino in Prince George's County as good for taxpayers and as Frederick County lawmakers asked constituents if they want slots...

Westboro Baptist case: Juries on trial

2011-10-05 15:47:53

The Supreme Court has embarked on a new term that is widely predicted to be one of its most momentous in many years. But we should not quickly forget one very important First Amendment case decided by the court during its last term — one that may...

Police: Laurel murder-suicide witnessed by victim's children

2011-09-20 14:43:00

What appeared to have been a strained association — rife with abuse and violence — ended in Laurel on Sept. 14 in a murder-suicide that was witnessed by the young children of the murder victim. According to Laurel and Prince George's County...

This just in: Penn National has discovered it can make money from slots. If we amend the state constitution, give them a license and allow them to build one of the biggest slots parlors on the East Coast. No kidding.

2011-10-06 11:03:34

A view of Constitution Hall in Lecompton, Kansas. This building was where pro-slavery delegates to the Constitutional Convention debated the divisive issue of slavery in Kansas. Date: Possibly between 1857 and 1900

2011-10-02 20:07:58

Hagerstown Community College Tuesday hosted its annual Constitution Day event in the Student Center. Guest speakers were Art Callaham, former executive director of the Greater Hagerstown Committee, and his wife, Ruth Anne Callaham, a Washington County commissioner, shown speaking.

2011-09-21 04:01:51