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Barbara P. Katz, a local philanthropist and the first woman to serve as president of what was then the Maryland Historical Society, died of congestive heart failure Feb. 1 at her Pikesville home. She was 88.
Print Mindy Basara, WBAL-TV 11 A repeal of the Maryland state song is on the agenda this legislative session, and this may be the last year "Maryland, My Maryland" represents the state. You may have heard it at Preakness in the past and not thought much of it. The song was written during the Civil War, and if you listen to all the verses, you realize the official song of the Free State is an ode to the Confederacy. "It doesn't sit well with me at all," House Speaker Adrienne Jones said. Jones, the first female and the first black speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, is on a...