What does the phrase “sustainable development” mean, and where does it come from?
Military voting: a tale of two counties
In Fairfax County, VA, military personnel enjoy full voting rights. But just across the river, in Montgomery County, MD, military personnel are disenfranchised.
Palin endorses underdog candidate in Maryland governor race - - WaPo
Murphy calling himself more conservative alternative to Ehrlich
"Water, water, everywhere..."
Unlike the storied sailor whose thirst could not be quenched by the bountiful surrounding waters due to the ocean’s salinity, much of our nation faces decline in available potable water due to faulty and antiquated infrastructure and regulatory regimes
Kitten stuffed in library drop box - Philadelphia Inquirer
The male brown tabby, which has no name, was shoved into the book drop at a community center, which also doubles as a library
Cop busts woman hiding meth in her vagina - Montgomery County News
Texas drug addict is in jail for drug charges after being pulled over during a routine traffic stop
School district 'not guilty' of discrimination - PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
A federal judge ruled yesterday that the Lower Merion School District did not discriminate against nine black students from South Ardmore because of their race when it adopted a redistricting plan in January 2009
Give ‘em hell, harridan!
The Helen Thomas episode is only underscored by the progressives heckling Madame Speaker at a progressive lunch, demanding an end to U.S. support for Israel. Let’s all hope that all Americans who care about Israel take note of who their real friends are
School girl tells First Lady, 'Mom doesn't have papers' - WaPo
In a rather shocking admission, a naive, young school girl tells the first lady that the little girl’s mother is an illegal. Michelle Obama’s response, ‘We’ll have to work on that’
The great American fire sale
Let’s get organized, incorporate and sell the stuff! Either just turn over the land to whoever is there right now to self govern and own, or sell off uninhabited places like “Johnston Atoll” to the highest bidder
A school district's expensive education - The Daily Caller
District’s Web-cam legal bill tops $550,000 so far
America’s top 20 most liberal-friendly counties - TheDC
All week The Daily Caller has been counting down the 100 counties in America where liberals would be happiest living. Now it’s time for the final installment, the top 20 list
Maryland governor's race: the rematch - CNN
Former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich kicked off his bid to get his old office back. He’s challenging is current Gov. Martin O’Malley — the man who knocked him out of office four years ago
Deep blue: 60-41 of America's top 100 liberal counties - TheDC
The Daily Caller is counting down the 100 most liberal-friendly counties, after having done the same for conservatives. If you still have an Obama bumper sticker on your Prius, this is where you’ll feel most at home
America's most conservative-friendly counties: top 20 - TheDC
The Daily Caller has been counting down the top 100 conservative-friendly counties in America and today we reveal the top 20
School district banned from talking to others - Philadelphia Inquirer
The next time Lower Merion school administrators want to talk to students and parents about their laptop-camera controversy, they will have to get a lawyer’s blessing
FBI now involved in school webcam spying case - ABC News
The FBI and a Philadelphia-area prosecutor are looking into whether a school district broke the law when it remotely activated cameras on school-owned laptops and watched students in their homes
PA school district says it never deliberately spied on students - AP
A Pennsylvania school district says it remotely activated webcams 42 times to find missing student laptops, but never did so to spy on students, as a lawsuit claims
Snowpocalypse’s lesson: The inefficiency of government
On the eighth day after the first snow fell, the Fairfax County school system announced that it needed volunteer help from parents to do what it had neglected to do all those days. By the end of that day, at one elementary school near my home, I saw that parents had undertaken what school employees had not — they had carved wide culverts right down to the bare ground through huge mounds of snow at crosswalks and bus stops
'Free the grapes' campaign inching forward
A bill in Maryland repealing the quarter-century-old direct-shipping ban on wine included the signatures of 106 of the 188 state legislators