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Last week, nearly three years after Howard County government sponsored a public forum to allow the community to express its views about development in Town Center, General Growth Properties offered what it ...

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Jul 19, 2008
 
Why would GGP have to worry about where to put the schools? That is problem of the County. If the County can't educate the students that will live in new developments, the County should not approve the development. One possible solution to school overcrowding would be the introduction of school vouchers. This would allow many students to attend private schools and therefore reduce the need to build large public schools.
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Wednesday Jul 30
 
To the individuals who use ethnophaulisms and who think that whites are The Superior Race: please read sociology and biology textbooks: race is a socially constructed concept. Biologically, there are no pure, distinct races.
Unfortunately, we continue to live in segregation where the majority of whites live in a "white bubble", and the majority of blacks live in socio-economic disadvantaged neighborhoods.
How can this nation become pluralist if we continue to harbor hate, stereotype, discrimination, and racial prejudice?
Education is the key. Intergroup contact, workplace training programs are ways to promote racial harmony. Violent crimes are committed by human beings that are very troubled. Family union is very important: if you read 2006 National Report on Juvenile Offenders and Victims, the majority of youth who committed crime lived in broken homes; according to the Juvenile Offenders and Victims (2006), "family structure plays a very important role. A youth's risk of being a violent crime victim is tied to family and community characteristics, not race."
May God bless the officer who was murdered and may God save the offenders.
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