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• Dennis Haney, The Wizard of Rosedale One of the country’s most respected magicians quietly holds court in a Baltimore County industrial park. | 1/11/2012
• The Final Number With the Iraq War over, we can stop adding up the casualties and start adding up the cost. | 1/4/2012

• Maryland Immigration Attorney Pleads Guilty to Sham-Marriage Conspiracy The case is unusual, but marriage fraud isn’t, officials say | 1/11/2012
• Justice Department and Washington Post prevail in Baltimore man’s lawsuit Complaint Dismissed | 1/4/2012
• Program Eyes How to Make Pigtown Stop Smoking Morgan State researchers hope engaging the community can help more of it quit | 12/28/2011

• Murder Ink Murders this Week: 2; Murders this Year: 11 | 2/1/2012
• Murder Ink Murders this Week: 3; Murders this Year: 9 | 1/25/2012
• Murder Ink Murders this Week: 1; Murders this Year: 6 | 1/18/2012
• Murder Ink Murders this Week: 5; Murders this Year: 5 | 1/11/2012
• Murder Ink Murders in 2011: 196; Murders this Week: 1; Murders this Year: 0 | 1/4/2012
• Murder Ink Murders this Week: 4; Murders this Year: 195 | 12/28/2011

• Councilmania On the agenda for Jan. 23 | 2/1/2012
• Councilmania On the agenda for Jan. 9 | 1/18/2012
• Councilmania On the agenda for Aug. 15 | 8/24/2011
• Councilmania On the agenda June 20 | 6/29/2011
• Councilmania On the agenda for June 13 | 6/22/2011
• Councilmania On the agenda for June 6 | 6/15/2011

• Bag Snag "...the Department of Planning does not have the authority to issue fines, violations or citations against any business that is noncompliant with the Plastic Bag Program." | 10/12/2011
• That Was the Week That Wasn’t Federal budgeting SNAFU delays entitlement processing, lines bureaucrats pockets | 10/5/2011
• Death Row in the Free State In the aftermath of the controversial execution of convicted murderer Troy Davis by the state of Georgia, City Paper wondered about the fate of Maryland’s own death row inmates. | 9/28/2011

• Non-nonviolence Regarding the letter by Thomas Fox about what sends males to warring | 2/1/2012
• Numb and Numbers American Lives are not more important than other people’s lives! | 1/25/2012
• Yours and Mayan Do not cash in your bonds and max out credit cards. On Dec. 21, 2012, the world does not end. | 1/18/2012
• Suggested Reading I am a controversial black woman seasoned with seasonings from the salt of the earth. | 1/11/2012
• 2011 Whoops last year’s People Who Died feature mistakenly stated was a look back over the year 2010 | 1/4/2012
• Morris Martick, James Baldwin, and . . . Curious Hairs? Thank you for your tribute, It was almost as delicious as his cooking | 12/28/2011