Editorial Endorses EMS Funding Through Traffic Fines Increase
Editors urge Maryland lawmakers to fund the state EMS program via a $20 fine hike for traffic offenses, arguing the approach targets offenders who trigger EMS calls while sparing general taxpayers. They praise the bill as fair, urgent, and superior to license plate fee hikes, urging swift passage.
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Easil
Rtlus
EMS
Dew Aditernaive
General Assembly
Maryland
Annapolis
Dhaka politics and crime weave through grim headlines
Roy Meachum surveys Dhaka press culture where crime is media fodder and political chaos dominates. He notes the power struggles between Hasina and Zia, the street violence of muscle men, kidnappings, bombed bodies, and the dominance of sensational sex stories to sell papers while the nation faces poverty and external aid questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dhaka Daily Star
Sheikh Hasina
Es Trat Giett
Bnit
Hasina
Ms. Zia
Denmark
Copenhagen
Dhaka
Bangladesh
al Capone
Afghanistan
Mullah
Iran
Frend
Mecca
God
Abraham
Ishmael
Isaac
Attitude Adjustment On Drugs Sparks Broad Debate
An essay argues laws create a paradox by allowing sale of alcohol and tobacco while criminalizing marijuana. It cites druggists selling 27 pharmaceuticals including morphine, and notes public figures and artists used drugs historically. The piece urges a wholesale attitude shift toward drug policy and urges reflection on broad societal harms.
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Manhattan
Ethan Nadelman
The
Lindesmith Center — Drug Policy Foundation
Wwwilindesmith.org
Nadelman
New School University
Lester Grinspoon
Harvard Medical School
Louis ArmsWong
Nascar
Centers For Disease Control
Alcoholics Anonymous
CDU
America
Gamblers Anonymous
Wendy's
Frederick area college students compete in Wasuti Colhene event
A group of Hood College students including Hetsy Micain and Mie Mutain joined peers under instructor Peggy Lau Slaryt for the Wasuti Colhene competition. The event included several readings and demonstrations as part of campus activities.
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Hetsy Mic‘ain
Stone
Ad Mie
Russel Mutain
College Terran
Id Hood Colege
Chisiberbury
Peggy Lau Slaryt
Betrayal by Trusted FBI Agent Sparks National Outcry
A reader laments how FBI counterintelligence veteran Robert Hanssen betrayed the United States for 15 years. They question why top spies evade detection and urge accountability for national security leadership while fearing ongoing gaps that could endanger citizens.
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FBI
Robert Hanssen
United States
Administer to the pain in medical drug debate
Kenneth Smith argues in favor of allowing pain relief for the terminally ill, asking if Christopher Petrella would endure cancer pain or want his family to suffer without access to certain drugs, challenging stigma around medical use.
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Christopher Petrella
Christopher
Snodgrass Supports Medical Marijuana Bill Despite Party
A reader praising Louise Snodgrass for backing a medical marijuana bill in Texas, noting the Republican party’s general opposition, and voicing support for terminally ill patients and those in chemotherapy whose pain remains unrelieved by morphine.
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Christopher Petrella
Texas
Louise Snodgrass
Republican Party
Medical marijuana support and a Civil War general misstatement
A letter argues for medical marijuana for nausea and spastic disorders citing the 1999 Institute of Medicine study and a bill backed by Mrs. Snodgrass while challenging critics. The piece also corrects a historic misstatement about Gen. Jesse L. Reno, detailing his death at Wise Field and burial. Donald W. Crum signs as author.
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Reno
Monument Road
IX Corps
Ambrose Burnside
John Pope
Wise Field
Calvin Cutter
Boston
Trinity Church
Oak Hill Cemetery
Georgetown
Washington
D.C
Mary
Jesse Lee Reno
William McConnell
Washington County
S. Roger Kelle
Antietam
South Mountain
John M. Priest
Ezra J. Warner
Public outcry over USS Greenville sinking near Oahu
Mark Hughes urges Japan to recover the USS Arizona from Pearl Harbor before pursuing the sunk research vessel. He questions U S crew negligence and calls for prioritizing the Arizona’s raising, arguing the massive, costly effort to lift the submerged ship should precede any recovery of the Japanese vessel.
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Greenville
Oahu
Hawaii
U.S
Ford Island
Pearl Harbor
Reno’s birth and Civil War ties corrected
A correspondent challenges a Feb 23 Odds & Ends column over Gen Jesse L Reno death details at South Mountain. The note corrects birthplace to Wheeling Virginia born April 20 1823 and traces his early life to Pennsylvania before West Point 1846, noting peers in his class.
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Jesse Lee Reno
South Mountain
Gen. Reno
New York
Wheeling
West Virginia
Lewis
Rebecca Quinby Reno
Franklin
Warango County
Jesse
United States Military Academy
West Point
George E. Pickett
George B. McClellan
Stonewall Jackson
Daniel Harvey Hill
Frederick Post front page photo warms readers with young reader
The Frederick Post features a smiling young lady reading to a kindergartner. Justine Ross engages a young listener, Dana Scofield, leaving a vivid impression of early literacy. Photographer Timothy Jacobsen earns recent recognition, with Wilson S. Llu hn credited as observer.
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Frederick Post
Justine Ross
Dana Scofield
Miss Ross
Timothy Jacobsen
Letters to the Editor at The Frederick News-Post
Readers are urged to send exclusive letters to The Frederick News Post with the writer’s name. Submissions are accepted by mail, fax, or email and may be posted online. poetry and copies of letters are not published.
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Mai
Frederick News-Post
P.O. Box
Frederick
Fredericknen
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