10/2/2020: Kamala Harris' Supreme Court hearing participation could be unprecedented - Stranger answers call to get Chromebooks to Baltimore teacher’s students

Today's Article: Kamala Harris' Supreme Court hearing participation could be unprecedented
From: ABC News
Readability Score: 11.7

Kamala Harris poised for unprecedented SCOTUS role

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Today's Alternate Article: Stranger answers call to get Chromebooks to Baltimore teacher’s students
Readability Score: 7.0 

4/13/2020: Baltimore spending board approves surveillance plane pilot program to capture images from city streets - Greener than burial? Turning human bodies into worm food

Today's Article: Baltimore spending board approves surveillance plane pilot program to capture images from city streets
From: Baltimore Sun
Readability Score: 12.8

Should cities use surveillance planes in an effort to reduce crime? Does this violate the 4th amendment?

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Today's Alternate Article: Greener than burial? Turning human bodies into worm food
Readability Score: 8.1

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8/29/2017: City Slaps Fines On Businesses For Putting Signs On Windows Without Permits - Confederate Monuments Taken Down in Baltimore Overnight

Today's Article: City Slaps Fines On Businesses For Putting Signs On Windows Without Permits
From: DNA Info Chicago
Readability Score: 9.9

A number of neighborhood small business owners are complaining that the city is overzealously policing sign permits, saying they've had to pay thousands of dollars in fines for words painted on their shop windows.

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Today's Alternate Article: Confederate Monuments Taken Down in Baltimore Overnight
Readability Score: 7.5

Aug. 16, 2017 Confederate statues in Baltimore were removed from their bases overnight by city contractors, who used heavy machinery to load them onto flatbed trucks and haul them away — an abrupt end to more than a year of indecision on what to do with the memorials.

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4/25/2017: Mayor Vetoes Bill That Would Raise Baltimore Minimum Wage - A Different View of the World

Today's Article: Mayor Vetoes Bill That Would Raise Baltimore Minimum Wage
From: Baltimore Sun
Readability Score: 11.3

Advocates pushing for the higher wage decried Pugh's action as a broken promise.

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Today's Alternate Article: A Different View of the World
Readability Score: 9.7

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11/1/2016: Will A Study Save Victims Of Violence, Or Gamble With Their Lives? - How Meditation is Making a 'Huge Difference' in One Baltimore School

Today's Article: Will A Study Save Victims Of Violence, Or Gamble With Their Lives?
From: NPR
Readability Score: 11.2

For patients who are potentially bleeding to death, Maher and her colleagues say, just basic care is better until they reach the hospital.

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Today's Alternate Article: How Meditation is Making a 'Huge Difference' in One Baltimore School
Readability Score: 8.8

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5/27/2016: Judge Bars Washington, D.C., Restriction on Guns Outside Home - One Woman's Mission to Keep Baltimore's Kids Safe

Today's Article: Judge Bars Washington, D.C., Restriction on Guns Outside Home
From: New York Times
Readability Score: 13.4

Judge Richard J. Leon’s...ruling...reopens the district’s long fight over how much room the Second Amendment’s guarantee of the right to bear arms leaves for local regulation...

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Readability Score: 7.6

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