Theatre Speaks by Kate Emery General

Theatre Speaks by Kate Emery General

​ Live theatre matters, perhaps now more than ever. In a world dominated by social media, algorithms, digital technology, and screens that constantly reinforce what we already believe, theatre can do something very different: it can make us uncomfortable. It can introduce us to people and ideas we may disagree with and force us to […]

Bay Journal: Vibrio on the Rise in the Choptank as the Chesapeake Warms

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One day last July, Vernon Spear scratched his forearm on a crab pot as he pulled it out of the Choptank River from his pier in Cambridge. He put hydrogen peroxide on the tiny cuts, thinking that would disinfect them. That night, his forearm swelled up, and he spiked a high fever. The next morning, […]

Theatre Speaks by Kate Emery General

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Live theatre matters, perhaps now more than ever. In a world dominated by social media, algorithms, digital technology, and screens that constantly reinforce what we already believe, theatre can do something very different: it can make us uncomfortable. It can introduce us to people and ideas we may disagree with and force us to sit […]

A Role Model for Putting People Before Politics in Annapolis by David Reel

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Last week, a supermajority in the Maryland House of Delegates and the Maryland Senate voted to approve placing a referendum question on the November general election ballot. The question is approval of an amendment to the Maryland Constitution on the guidelines to be used when the General Assembly draws the boundaries of Maryland’s eight Congressional […]