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Blame game in U-Md. student's death
Last Tuesday, police found 22-year-old University of Maryland student Justin DeSha-Overcash dead inside a home he was renting on the 8800 block of 38th Street, across the street from the University's campus. DeSha-Overcash's death, the 11th in a series...
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Aaron Morrissey
| January 18, 2011; 12:58 PM ET |
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Idaho Rep. puts Prince George's killings in D.C.
Yesterday on NBC's "Meet the Press," freshman Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador mistakenly ascribed the rash of murders in Prince George's County -- nine so far, including two on Saturday alone -- to the District. The slip-up came during...
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Martin Austermuhle
| January 10, 2011; 12:53 PM ET |
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Enough beating up on Prince George's voters
Regarding Lee Hockstader’s Dec. 20 op-ed column, “A new day in Prince George’s?”:Enough of the self-righteous tongue-lashings about apathetic Prince George’s County voters! We usually have had a choice between Mr. Horrible and Mr. Worse, and none of us had...
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Charles Pickett, Upper Marlboro
| December 21, 2010; 6:49 PM ET |
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Avoiding the achievement gap in Prince George's
As a black male Harvard Law student from Prince George’s County, I was drawn to The Post’s recent articles about the national black-white male achievement gap, as well as Prince George’s experience with No Child Left Behind’s student transfer policy....
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Victor A. Kwansa, Riverdale
| November 29, 2010; 6:55 PM ET |
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Will U-Md.'s new president get on board the Purple Line?
This month marked the beginning of a new era for the University of Maryland in College Park, as Wallace D. Loh officially took over as president, replacing C. Daniel Mote, who led the campus for over a decade. Considering the...
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Marcus Afzali, College Park
| November 19, 2010; 7:34 PM ET |
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Let the black woman's pain be heard
Apparently Courtland Milloy is so disturbed by Tyler Perry's movie "For Colored Girls," that even when speaking of the FBI sting operation resulting in the arrests of Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson and his wife, Leslie, he still...
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M. E. Schertzer, Silver Spring
| November 18, 2010; 6:23 PM ET |
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