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Dean or Kucinich: Which is Better for Progressives?
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“Clearly the time is ripe for an in-depth and comparative look at both candidates. We at the Chronicle feel that by training the floodlights of scrutiny on both men, the shadows of doubt and deception will give way and a clear favorite will emerge for progressives.”
by Brad Carlton | Special Campaign Coverage Revised 6.27.03
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Locust Point, Baltimore, and Beyond Through June 29, Resurgam Gallery is showing watercolors of our fair city by artist and journalist Michael Heylin. Pictured here is his "Tugboat: Off Fells Point," 18" high by 24" wide. The London-born Heylin lives now in D.C., and visits nearby urban areas to capture their essence. He's especially interested in older transition neighborhoods like Locust Point, aiming to record them "before they are paved or built over." Also in the show: acrylic and mixed media paintings and prints by the artist simply known as Hiro. She uses "Tech Visions"-the stuff of modernity, like transistors, diodes, and LEDs-and contrasts them with old-style technology, sometimes combining all with urban scenes. The gallery, a cooperative, is at 910 S. Charles St in Federal Hill. Hours are Thurs.-Sat. noon-6 p.m.; Sunday noon-3 p.m. For info, call 410-962-0513.
Ridgeway Elementary School will present six performances of "The Wiz" in June.
Staff | Play 6.4.03
‘Beyond Paradise’ Profiles
Silent Film Star Novarro
Review by Joe Rosenberg | Book 6.4.03
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CALENDAR
6.4.03
Local Newsbriefs
Summaries of important local stories.
by Staff |
6.10.03
MTA Rate Increases Go In Effect June 30
Tickets will increase from $1.35 to $1.60...
Staff | 6.10.03
Liquor: The Other Drug
New liquor license legislation and spotty enforcement of existing laws leaves communities with no choice but to fight when faced with new liquor establishments.
by Russ Henley
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Alice Cherbonnier
6.10.03
A Little Bit of France Can Be Found on Falls Road
...it was when exploring on her own that Ms. Walsh discovered the 1700-square foot space her business, Bastille French Country Antiques, now occupies.
by Alice Cherbonnier
6.10.03
City Council Unanimously
Condemns ‘Patriot Act’
The Baltimore City Council unanimously passed the strongest resolution in the country to date against the USA Patriot Act on Monday, May 19 at their regular council meeting.
by Kay Dellinger
6.4.03
City’s Neighborhoods Are Becoming Poor Stepchildren {Updated!}
Lately it appears that the city government would much rather deal with favored developers than with its communities.
by Myles Hoenig
6.4.03
Fate of Northern District Police Station Not Clear
Can an already-approved Planned Unit Development be substantially changed without further community input? Hampden and Wyman Park neighbors seek answers.
by Lynda Lambert
6.4.03
Sports: Injury Bug Bites Birds
by Darrell Carter
6.4.03
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Of Mice and (Con) Men
The buildup to the invasion of
Iraq revealed most of our national-security bureaucrats and
journalists to be mice, no match for the men who marshaled
all manner of questionable, false or even forged evidence to
make their case. The men led — make that “misled” — and the
mice, with few exceptions, cheered them on or cowered in
their holes.by Dennis Hans
7.02.03
The 'Crime' of Exercising Free Speech at Baltimore's Inner Harbor
The public pays for the Inner Harbor's existence and upkeep. However, the city of Baltimore is telling us that they have suspended our First Amendment rights there...by Scott Loughrey
6.22.03
Middle Child Must Help Itself
There’s been an ongoing discussion about whether or not the Charles Village Community Benefits District (CVCBD) should be renewed...Editorial 6.10.03
Jayson Blair, Minor League Liar
We’re as angry as anyone that a member of the media lies, but we’re even more outraged that our media have soft-pedaled the lying of George W. Bush and his minions, and swallowed whole the fabrications and distortions they have handed out to reporters who fail to double-check the facts.Editorial 6.10.03
What’s ‘Suspicious Behavior’?
You know what I think might be suspicious? These continuing ‘terror risk’ announcements.by Lynda Lambert
6.4.03
Phony-Baloney Constitutionalists
How are conservatives guilty of embracing the very doctrine they claim to abhor?
by Sheldon Richman
6.4.03
Remote Control “Democracy” in Iraq
“Mr. Bush proclaims theatrically, in a staged publicity event wearing military dress, that the war is over, while adding that it is only a battle in an endless War on Terrorism: The war is over; the war is never over.”
by Chris Knipp
6.4.03
Korea: A Change of Viewpoint
“We poured plum brandy on the rocks for the dead. In respect and mourning we knelt over and over and touched our foreheads to the ground. Then we noticed pieces of bone....”
by Ellen Barfield
6.4.03
Transcript of a Censored Commencement Address
New York Times reporter Chris Hedges was booed off the stage and had his microphone cut off twice as he delivered a graduation speech on war and empire at Rockford College in Illinois. Following is the text of his speech.
by Chris Hedges
6.4.03
A Jobless America Is an America at Risk
How is the “general welfare” served, and the Republic, too, when the highest value in the land isn’t the national interest, but the corporate and globalized interests of these scheming grave diggers of America?
by William Hughes
6.4.03
If History Is Prelude...
“What passes for our national ‘common sense’ is not fixed, not even now; it is fashioned day in and day out. The successful opposition leader will need to fashion another common sense, one that combines self-interest with the desire to be noble, one that is already out there, waiting, rustling in the bushes. We need only beckon it forward.”
by Larry Krause
6.4.03
Noted Reporter Robert Dreyfuss Draws Crowd Here
Dreyfuss challenged the audience by saying it’s the public, not the press, that has to crusade against bad Bush policies.
by Elissa Thomas
6.4.03
Investigative Reporter Greg Palast: Katherine Harris's Worst Nightmare {Heldover}
The Florida [election] show is being taken on the road and is going to be imposed on all 50 states.
by Brad Carlton
4.9.03
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Newsbriefs
Noteworthy news summaries.
by Staff
6.10.03
Who Is Howard Dean?
Dean calls himself “a common-sense moderate.” Liberals and progressives, however, criticize him for not being progressive or liberal enough, pointing out, for example, that he backed allowing Vermonters to carry concealed weapons. Republicans attack Dean for his stands on social issues...
by Alice Cherbonnier
6.4.03
Rolling Back the 20th Century
“For the first time since the 1920s, Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court are all singing from same hymnal and generally reinforcing one another.”
by WILLIAM GREIDER
6.4.03
The Free-Market Al-Qaeda
The ‘neoliberal’ conviction is held so strongly by twelve right-wing philanthropic foundations that starting in the 1960s they set out in concert to overturn a century’s accumulation of progressive public policy.
by Richard W. Behan
6.4.03
Tensions Thaw, but Is Peace Possible in South Asia?
Immediately after the war in Iraq was over, India’s Foreign Minister said his country has a much better case to take preemptive military action against Pakistan than the U.S. had in Iraq.
by Dr. Ali Ahmed Rind
6.4.03
Scientists Dispute Pentagon Claims about DU
“The Pentagon is reluctant to discuss its own laboratory studies linking DU to cancer.”
by Stephen Kent
6.4.03
Can Venezuela Avoid Civil War?
Chávez is such a polarizing figure largely because of Venezuela’s intense class struggle, born of its extreme concentration of wealth.
by Brad Carlton
6.4.03
Operation “Syrian Freedom”
“The Likud government has officially annexed the Golan Heights (but not the West Bank and Gaza Strip) to Israel. According to international law, this is occupied Syrian territory.”
by Uri Avnery
6.4.03
Nader Signals He Will Run Again in 2004
“Common to all the people who say that [my campaign hurt Gore] is the obligation to answer a more basic question, ‘What would you have me do?’ And their answer is, ‘Not run.’ And that’s not acceptable. This country does not belong to two parties.”
by Brad Carlton
6.4.03
Iraq’s Infrastructure Situation Is Critical
Millions of people in Iraq are at risk as water and sewage systems crumble.
Special to The Chronicle
6.4.03
How a U.S. Company Props Up the House of Saud
The story of how an obscure American company ended up becoming the Saudi monarchy’s personal protection service is a case study in how the US government has come to rely on unaccountable private companies to do its dirty work on the world stage.
by William D. Hartung
6.4.03
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