The Old Line: A Reality-Based Maryland Weblog.

Let me pull together some stories that I never got around to commenting on recently, before they go down the memory hole:

Montgomery County is going forward with a new sex education program that includes the radical and dangerous idea that gays and lesbians are people. Meanwhile, the Astroturf radical right groups that derailed an earlier version of the program are appealing to the state Board of Education (More about them here).
The Post has an interesting profile on the D.C. area's various attempts to slow down the rate of growth. Which, by the way, getting more of.
How the hell did Johns Hopkins lose personal data on 135,000 people? And why did it take them seven weeks to notify people? If it hadn't been for privacy laws in several states -- not Maryland, incidentally -- they might never have informed people at all.
As Blog Arundel notes, the University of Maryland has put out a study showing that the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a consortium to reduce carbon emissions in the Northeast, and which Maryland will be joining this year, won't harm the state's economy, and may even help it.
Gov. O'Malley intends to have firms doing business with the state pay its workers a living wage.
And yet another Marylander dies in Iraq so that George W. Bush doesn't have to admit his failures.

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