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The Real Muck: Spurning ‘Northern scum’
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Saturday, April 16, 2011. Spurning ‘Northern scum’. Wet, but hardy reenactors march along Baltimore's Pratt Street, where the first deaths of the Civil War occurred 150 years ago. (Photo by Bonnie J. Schupp). From the Civil War. 8216;Pratt Street Riot’ wrought conflict’s first deaths. They had to change train lines in Baltimore – from the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad’s station to the venerable Baltimore and Ohio’s Camden Station just under a mile to the west. In b...Camden Station also...
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The Real Muck: September 2011
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Thursday, September 8, 2011. Is not very helpful. Corporations can create jobs, but often choose a different path. or country. It was July 4. Weekend, and my landline phone and internet service were out cold, resulting in a cell phone call to Comcast for help. My call was answered – by a guy in Costa Rica. That he was unable to resolve or walk us through the steps needed to fix the problem was annoying. But the more I thought about it, the more disgusted I became. with Corporate America. I’ll conce...
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The Real Muck: August 2011
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011. Shake, shake, quake! Scores a Richter 5.8,. But may prove stronger. As oddly fun memory. I can scratch this one off my bucket list: Earthquake. A real earthquake – not those piddly 2.2-Richter giggles that used to make big news in suburban Howard County, Maryland. We’re talking shake-the-house-for-20-seconds quake, and sharing the visceral thrill with, reportedly, folks from Georgia to. Ontario and as far west as Detroit and Chicago. It was strange seeing on TV the ruins of buil...
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The Real Muck: May 2015
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Monday, May 4, 2015. Turmoil then and now. Artist Nether works on his Freddie Gray mural. Photo by Bonnie J. Schupp. Racial tension haunts Baltimore. Across chasm of 45 years. In the next morning's edition of The Baltimore Sun, the Kent State story ran under the picture. But the lede story - at the top right of the page - carried my first front-page byline, and had nothing to do with the shootings or the increasingly unpopular war that was raging in Southeast Asia. My story began with a call to the city ...
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The Real Muck: April 2012
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Friday, April 6, 2012. Baseball: Hope Springs Eternal. At least in Double-A,. Baltimore beats Washington through. Minor league proxies in season opener:. Bowie Baysox 4, Harrisburg Senators 2. Yup, it’s that time of the year – when an old newspaperman’s fancy turns to baseball, and temperatures plunging through the 50s aren’t cold enough to keep him away from “opening night” at Prince George’s Stadium where the Bowie Baysox launched their 20. Season and a couple of homeruns in a 4-2 win. Ankiel, as desig...
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The Real Muck: August 2014
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Saturday, August 30, 2014. On the Road Again. Part 7. Our ribbon of asphalt through the Nebraska Sandhills (above), and Pilgrim Holiness Church (below, left). (Photos by Bonnie J. Schupp). Exploring faith and whimsy. ARTHUR, Nebraska – It’s not exactly the church around the corner, but the Pilgrim Holiness Church is a must-visit kind of place. It was made of hay bales in the late 1920s, and survived the possibility of being eaten by cows with coatings of plaster and stucco. Inside, although the church ha...
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The Real Muck: September 2014
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Sunday, September 21, 2014. On the Road Again. Part 13. A piece of Tr uck. Henge (Photos by Bonnie J. Schupp). We're not in Colorado anymore,. But Kansas proves pretty cool. Truckhenge, and a rainbow for. TOPEKA, Kansas – We took the most scenic route back to Interstate 70 (there are only two ways, and we had driven in through the other route), on a Sunday drive taking us past the first evidence of the signature asp e. Color on the way to Independence Pass. We pick up Route 91 to Interstate 70 – th...
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The Real Muck: November 2013
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Sunday, November 17, 2013. Helen Bentley and friends celebrate her 90th. Not many parties end with back-to-back singing of “Happy Birthday” and “God Bless America", but those were the main sentiments Sunday afternoon for one of the Baltimore area’s most celebrated public figures – Helen Delich Bentley. Photo by Bonnie Schupp). Federal Maritime Commission chairman and five-term congresswoman. Matter not that she is a Republican. No less a liberal Democrat than the Baltimore area’s. Soon after her hiring i...
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The Real Muck: April 2015
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Baltimore's Riot of 2015. In the matter of Freddie Gray. The 'routine' has vastly changed. During a 40-year career in the news business, I came up with my "two first laws of journalism":. No 1 is "Cops Lie.". No 2 is "Cops can't spell.". Face it - everybody lies. Maybe not all the time, but sometimes. And who hasn't made a spelling error? That was a little deception, a warrantless search - a shakedown, really -. Neither of the suspects resided in the building, and neither had a...
