
Rick Hutzell
Journalist at The Baltimore Banner
I'm a husband, father, dog lover, very slow runner and journalist at @baltimorebanner. Forever part of @capgaznews. Follow me @rickhutzell on threads.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Rick Hutzell
The Annapolis Pride Parade and Festival chose a transgender Space Force colonel and the Maryland attorneygeneralas co-grand marshals this year, a bold statement about the intolerance toward the LGBTQIA+ community coming from Washington. Attorney General Anthony Brown has filed more than two dozen lawsuits against actions by President Donald Trump’s administration. One of those policies will likely spell the end of the military career ofCol.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Rick Hutzell
Qubits, that’s “cue-bits” to you and me, behave in ways that make no sense. Short for quantum bits, qubits can be two things: a 0 or a 1. Confusingly, they can also be two things at once, a 0 and a 1. It’s called superposition. Gov. Wes Moore is betting $1 billion over the next five years that profitable uses for subatomic parlor tricks will stimulate Maryland’s economy and create high-paying jobs. Governors like to name stuff, so it’s the Capital of Quantum, one of his three economic lighthouses.
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1 week ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Rick Hutzell
The worst thing I ever bought with a penny was a 1¢ plug of chewing tobacco. I was 10 years old and shopping the candy racks at the Minit Market in Ocean City. I didn’t have the dime needed for my go-to — that trapezoid perfection of chocolate, raisins and nuts named Chunky, the object of my crewcut boy’s greed. But there, in a box on the same shelf, was a friendly yellow cellophane square, its cheeky “1¢" circled in red, winking at me alluringly.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Rick Hutzell
The worst thing I ever bought with a penny was a 1¢ plug of chewing tobacco. I was 10 years old and shopping the candy racks at the Minit Market in Ocean City. I didn’t have the dime needed for my go-to — that trapezoid perfection of chocolate, raisins and nuts named Chunky, the object of my crewcut boy’s greed. But there, in a box on the same shelf, was a friendly yellow cellophane square, its cheeky “1¢" circled in red, winking at me alluringly.
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2 weeks ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Rick Hutzell
Share Baltimore’s Afro American newspaper was jubilant. “We’ll Swim at Public Beaches Next Summer,” its headline read. Black Marylanders’ reliable source for news was celebrating victory in a cause it had championed for five years. “The U.S. Supreme Court threw two more harpoons into the body of segregation,” the newspaper wrote in a full page of coverage in November 1955. The Baltimore Banner thanks its sponsors. Become one.
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