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FILE - This June 2, 2010 file photo shows a customer putting plastics bags in a recycling bin at a grocery store in Palo Alto, Calif. The Los Angeles City Council is set to vote on whether to ban plastic bags at grocery stores in the nation's second-largest city. Backers of the measure say it is necessary to keep massive numbers of single-use plastic bags out of landfills, rivers and the ocean. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

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Baltimore County Council re-examines plastic bag ban during work session

Wambui Kamau

Councilman Todd Crandell introduced legislation that would weaken the plastic bag ban the County passed earlier this year.

Ben Todd Jealous, former president of the NAACP and a 2018 Democratic candidate for Maryland governor, is one of the nation's leading civil rights activists. He's also an educator, business investor and author, and in November 2022, he became the executive director of the Sierra Club, one of the nation's oldest and most influential environmental organizations. (photo credit Christopher Jason Studios/cover art courtesy Harper Collins)

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From Ben Jealous, a new memoir about family, race, national unity

Tom Hall

In a new collection of personal essays, the bi-racial civil rights activist, author, executive and educator opens up about his family's unique heritage and his hopes for a just, equitable American democracy.

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Plastic bag ban may soon be considered by Baltimore County Council

John Lee

A majority of the council is in favor of restrictions.