All Articles Tagged "maryland"
Weight Loss Biz Says It's Easy as Pie
(Black Enterprise) — In business, it’s important to know your target market intimately, and Carmyn Robey certainly does. By age 14, she weighed 260 pounds and was a size 24. “One day I made up my mind that I was tired of being depressed,” says Robey. “I started researching information about nutrition. Over two years, with diet and exercise, I lost 140 pounds and dropped from a size 24 to an 8.” Seeking to help other women in similar straits, she founded Easy As Pie, a Hyattsville, Maryland–based company that offers custom meal plans, individual cooking lessons, pantry walkthroughs and grocery assessments to help women achieve optimal nutrition and lead an overall healthier lifestyle.
Davis Wins Special Election
(Washington Post) — Early support from Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III and several other county leaders helped Derrick Leon Davis win the Democratic nomination for the vacant District 6 seat on the County Council. With all 26 of the district’s precincts reporting, Davis received 3,570 votes, or 55 percent of ballots cast. Arthur A. Turner Jr., with 1,254 votes, or 19 percent, was a distant second among the primary’s 14 candidates. In the predominantly Democratic county, Davis, a former school system official and the current chairman of the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund, becomes the strong favorite to succeed Leslie Johnson, who resigned in disgrace this year.
Friends of Accused Bowie State Student Express Shock
(Washington Post) — Alexis Simpson had been distressed to leave Clark Atlanta University, where she attended last year as a freshman, friends said. And the 19-year-old wasn’t easily settling into a new life at Bowie State University, where she was randomly housed in a suite with three other students. “She said she hadn’t been comfortable with her roommate,” Simpson’s friend, BreYonna Conrad, 18, said on Saturday. “She said they had argued and it almost turned into a fight. She said the roommate would target her. She was thinking about leaving the dorm and just living at home because she didn’t want to deal with it anymore.” But her friends never imagined those tensions would turn deadly. Simpson is charged with murder in the Thursday night fatal stabbing of one of her suite mates, Dominique Frazier, 18, of Northeast Washington. She is expected to appear in court Monday.
Behind the Scenes with TV One's CEO
(Washington Post) — I loved television growing up. It was the first place I saw a great representation of African Americans in environments different from mine. I watched TV, and it made me feel something. How many products can make people think, feel, cry and take action? That was so powerful to me. So when I would hear people say that I should follow my passion, I knew I was passionate about being in a medium that can do all of that. After business school, I decided to go into brand management with Clorox and Coca-Cola to understand marketing and, more importantly, to understand how to influence a consumer’s behavior to drive business results.
Torrential Rains Inundate D.C. Region: 3 Killed, Roads and Schools Closed
(Washington Post) – Torrential rains swept over the Washington region Thursday, triggering flash floods that killed two people in Fairfax County and one in Anne Arundel, trapped scores of terrified motorists, forced hundreds to evacuate their homes and shut major highways, including Interstate 66 and the Capital Beltway. The victims included 12-year-old Jake Donaldson, who was swept away by the flood-swollen waters of Piney Branch Creek in Vienna; 67-year-old Arsalan Hakiri, who was killed near his stranded vehicle in Great Falls ; and a 49-year-old man who drowned in Pasadena, Md., authorities said. Fairfax County Police identified the victims Friday morning after family members were notified. The name of the Pasadena man has not been released. The Virginia Department of Transportation and State Police ordered the Beltway closed from Route 1 to the Mixing Bowl at Interstate 395, as the waters of Cameron Run spilled onto the highway, VDOT spokeswoman Joan Morris said. Maryland officials closed the Woodrow Wilson Bridge to keep cars off the flooded portion of the Beltway in Virginia. Interstate 66 was also closed westbound near Route 50.
St. Michaels New Hot Spot for Well-Heeled Blacks
(The Root) — African Americans have had a tradition of summering in coastal resort towns since the 19th century. Areas such as Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., and Sag Harbor, N.Y., have been attracting black families for more than a century. The primary reason blacks flocked to certain areas was that they were barred from or made unwelcome in other places. In our modern, “postracial” times, many blacks have the freedom, money or clout to vacation wherever they choose. Like their white counterparts, affluent black families have acquired second homes that are used for more than a summer respite. One town creating buzz among East Coast buppies and black boomers today is St. Michaels, Md. Historically a waterman and shipbuilding town, St. Michaels has evolved into an elegant yet quaint getaway for the Washington, D.C., power elite. Former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld have homes there, and the late Michael Jackson reportedly looked at property in St. Michaels before his death.
Baltimore Homes Go for $10K — or Less
(Washington Post) — Andrew Wells is hoping to buy a Baltimore home for around the cost of an old car: Less than $10,000. Turns out he’s in good company. One of every 10 city homes sold during the first half of the year — about 275 in all — fellin that price range. Twice as many sold for under $20,000.
D.C., MontCo to Join Federal Illegal Immigrant Crackdown
(Washington Examiner) — The District and Montgomery County will soon be part of a federal program that targets jailed illegal immigrants for deportation, despite ongoing objections from a D.C. councilman. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has let jurisdictions know it is now mandatory that they join Secure Communities, a program that runs inmates’ fingerprints through an immigration database. Earlier this month, ICE canceled agreements it had signed with individual jurisdictions, saying the agreements were confusing and gave the impression the program was optional. It’s not, and the remaining jurisdictions will be required to join Secure Communities by 2013.
Va., Md. May Ask for No Child Waiver
(Washington Post) — School leaders in Virginia and Maryland said they are likely to seek exemptions for the most stringent requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law after an announcement Monday that the Obama administration will offer flexibility to states willing to modernize their accountability systems. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is exercising rarely used executive authority by inviting states to apply for legal waivers. The move comes after efforts to update the federal law stalled in Congress this year, frustrating educators across the country. “I applaud the secretary for recognizing that relief is necessary” said Patricia L. Wright, Virginia’s superintendent of public instruction.
In Maryland Race Complicates Redistricting
(Washington Post) — Few states’ delegations in the House of Representatives pack the political punch of little blue Maryland. Among its eight members is a Democratic juggernaut: the House minority whip and ranking members of the powerful budget, intelligence and oversight committees. The eight also stand out as collectively far more white than the Maryland they have come to represent, the 2010 Census showed. Just a quarter of the state’s representatives are African American even though minorities, most of them blacks, now make up nearly half of the state’s population. As Maryland’s redistricting process begins, African Americans in and out of state government are increasingly split over whether their top priority should be to push to redraw lines to ensure better representation for blacks or to protect Maryland’s white incumbents because of the coveted positions of power they have attained on Capitol Hill.
