Front Page Billing for Maryland

This is the most front page Maryland I've seen on a non-Maryland news source site or paper. When gay marriage was upheld in referendum we had to share the glory with some other states. But now here we are:

As the Governor, Martin O'Malley, put it, "Evidence shows that the death penalty is not a deterrent, it cannot be administered without racial bias, and it costs three times as much as life in prison without parole." Not to mention, as was communicated by the presence of an exonerated death row inmate at the signing, it can't be administered without killing innocent people. So woo.

Actually far more important is the 260,000 people dying in the East African famine during 2010-12. For some reference the UN estimates around 70,000 people have died in Syria's civil war in the past two years. The UN has many early warning famine indicators, and they did see the famine coming. But rich countries didn't want to help out any until it was a popular story in the news.

Also apparently the ECB has realized monetary policy is too tight and has made it a quarter percent less too tight.