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ALTIMORE — In the wake of a shooting that left five people injured during homecoming festivities, Morgan State University leaders announced Tuesday they plan to build a wall around most of the northeast Baltimore campus and station security personnel at entrances and exits. The wall would extend existing barriers by about 8,000 feet (2,400 meters) to encircle 90% of campus and effectively “eliminate unfettered access,” university President David Wilson said during a campus town hall. “We’re doing this, let me be clear, not to keep out our neighbors and our community writ large; we are doing it to keep out...

Fred Thompson's new campaign manager, Bill Lacy, forces out communications director Linda Rozett and suddenly we have a date for Fred's announcement: Sources tell numerous outlets that Thompson will announce his campaign September 4th, and that he will participate in his first debate on September 27 at Morgan State University in Baltimore. His first major appearance at a GOP event will be at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference in Michigan around a week earlier. Read on...

BALTIMORE - Outspoken radio show host Tyrone Powers has filed notice with the state that he intends to sue Gov. Martin O'Malley for $88.9 million for abridging "his freedom of speech." Powers' attorney Jimmy Bell sent a two-page letter of intent to the State Treasurer Nancy Kopp Tuesday. Powers, the former FBI agent and host of The Powers Report on Morgan State University's WEAA-88.9 FM, claims the station manager canceled his show because the governor wanted it "pulled off the air."O'Malley spokesman Rick Abruzzese declined to comment on Powers' allegations.Powers said at a Tuesday rally that his views and politics...

Media reports of Oreo cookies employed as a racist taunt during a 2002 Maryland gubernatorial campaign debate have recently come under dispute. Now, the media that reported the story—in many instances without independent confirmation or transparent sourcing—is struggling to explain how a racially charged (and apparently controversial) claim by Republican politicians became an accepted fact in major newspapers across the country. At issue is the question of whether Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, who is black, was pelted by, mocked with, or otherwise in the presence of Oreo cookies, which are white on the inside, at a raucous Baltimore debate...

Baltimore's NEWS - TALK- SPORTS Station It Was Ugly at Morgan State Last NightSeptember 27, 2002    Ron Smith's Something to Say     (September 27, 2002) Well, what a rude, contemptuous, ugly reception Bob Ehrlich got at Morgan State last night when he showed up to debate Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. (They even booed his wife and parents as they were led to their seats). This gubernatorial debate was so stacked in favor of the Democrat as to be ludicrous—even for the State of Maryland. Not only was the audience aggressively hostile to the Republican congressman, the questioners on the...