This thinking goes back to 1973. I was a senior in high school, running an errand in the family car. I must have been listening to WKSU. This 5- or 15-minute segment came on. A female spokesperson for the ACLU said that, under the compulsory school attendance law, a minor can only be in one of two places: a school, or a penal facility. In her view there was no real difference. I was an honors student and deeply convicted that education is the answer to poverty. Thus her

Supreme Court to decide what constitutes pomegranate juice • Free speech means freedom to lie • “I’m not changing my lifestyle.”

City considers crackdown on panhandling Baltimore has another fit of panhandler anxiety For years, I had the mantra: “Most panhandlers aren’t homeless, and most homeless people don’t panhandle.” Now I have many acquaintances who do one or the other. Given recent instability in my support system, I myself may soon become one who does both. My experience is much informed by what I’ve seen at the McDonald’s I frequent at Baltimore and Light Streets, where some people seem to pan