440 days ago - On an afternoon last October, April Tyler exited Parkville High School to meet her mother. As she walked with a friend after dismissal, a police officer pulled his car next to her and ordered her to stop loitering. Knowing she wasn't, she told the officer she was waiting to get a ride from her mother and continued to walk. “I’m not done with you yet!” he shouted.
458 days ago - In August I will enter the University of Maryland freshmen class of 2011. After 12 years of slaving away in the public school system, not counting preschool and kindergarten, I’ve reached the end of Baltimore County’s educational tether.
507 days ago - Considering the hullabaloo his comments at the Republican debate in South Carolina generated, you would think the soft-spoken doctor-turned-politician from Texas, Ron Paul, was the Antichrist. At the debate Paul stated the Sept. 11 attacks were the indirect result of American foreign policy.
573 days ago - It made my feet sweat. When the credits began to roll and Melissa Etheridge’s voice boomed on the speakers at the end of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth,” the first thought that came to mind was the doomed future of humanity, followed by images of what my bedroom would look like flooded.
594 days ago - T he second of February’s winter blasts may have come and gone yesterday, but remnants of both storms remain — mainly on the roofs of minivans and SUVs. Unfortunately, these heavy slabs of ice unhinge themselves in warmer weather and jump from their nests to the road below — or at times the windshields of other cars.
618 days ago - Most people my age like simplicity. Although not the sole reason, we played a large part in why “American Idol” almost claimed more viewers than President George Bush’s State of the Union speech. We want unfussy answers to the most complicated questions in life. Why did we go into Iraq? Oil. Martin O’Malley or Robert Ehrlich for governor? O’Malley — he’s better looking. Who is Scooter Libby? A cartoon character ... duh.