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Columns

Columnist experiences ‘historic’ student life

Long before I attended law school I made a meager living as a history teacher at local high schools and as an adjunct in local colleges and along the way developed a lifelong interest in the subject and especially American history.

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Early signs of Alheimer's can be most difficult

A column for seniors

and those who love them

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Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. — Norman Cousins, 1912-1990

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Florida Elder Law Attorney Alice Reiter Feld is our guest columnist for today. She writes:

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Schaefer proved government can be a force for good

By GERARD F. DEVLIN

Special to the Blade-News

We lost a giant this week with the passing of former Baltimore Mayor, Comptroller and Gov. William Donald Schaefer. It is an old cliché but like all clichés it has a basis in fact: We shall not see his like again.

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Bowie youth have a 'can'-do attitude

Bands4Cans — Music Can Feed the People!

Great title, great tagline, great cause.

Whenever youth come up with any type of unique, positive initiative, it certainly deserves play.

At the Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Friday, April 15, at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6), a group of youth bands "headlined" by the band Eleven:Thirteen will take to the stage to raise money for the Bowie Food Pantry.

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10 reasons to attend Bowie's first Green Expo Saturday

By GARY G. ALLEN

Special to the Blade-News

Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. you and your family are invited to attend Bowie’s first Green Expo at the Bowie Parks and Grounds Building on Mitchellville Road.

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Senior Moments: Shedding some light on health care legislation

A column for seniors

and those who love them

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We’ve got an education job to do with seniors. I think they are probably the least open to seeing the benefits (of health care reform). — Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.

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King showed what nonviolent protest can do

This year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day came not long after a tragedy in Arizona has shown all of us of how much pointless death and desolation can be caused by one foggy-minded young man with a gun. It’s the perfect time for a reminder of how much good can be done by one man leading a mass movement that explicitly rejected violence.

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Editor's notebook

NUMBING NUMBERS— Twelve homicides in 12 days in Prince George’s County.

Seven fires in two weeks in Bowie.

A father and son killed in a car crash on Route 50.

Thousands of dead birds in the south.

Millions of dead fish washed up from the Chesapeake Bay.

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For about the 320th time, the General Assembly begins

By GERARD F. DEVLIN

Special to the Blade-News

This is the time when legislative bodies, both national and state, begin their annual sessions. It is, of course, a reminder on an earlier America when farmers and in our state watermen as well had time on their hands. As a result they could practice their part-time avocation of lawmaker.

Yesterday, the Maryland General Assembly began its 2011 session, a practice dating back to the 1690s.

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State senator outlines budgetary concerns as 2011 General Assembly begins

By DOUGLAS J.J. PETERS

Special to the Blade-News

The 2011 General Assembly began this week and this year a majority of the debate will focus on the budget. My position on the Senate Budget and Tax Committee, coupled with my new appointment as vice chairman of Capital Budget will put me in the eye of the storm.

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