Sun crime reporter Peter Hermann had a fascinating visit last week to two journalism classes at Homeland Security Academy, one of the high schools in the Walbrook complex. Check out his column today describing his experience and his blog, Baltimore Crime Beat, where he posted some of the students' class projects. I'm scheduled to visit the same classes later this year. The teacher and I went to the same journalism school, at Northwestern University outside Chicago. 

Meanwhile, if you're stopping by Northwestern High School (in Baltimore, that is), check out the November edition of their student newspaper, The Compass, which will include an article on yours truly. I had fun visiting Wednesday night with more than half a dozen student journalists, most of them juniors, as they rushed to meet their monthly deadline. As I was getting ready to leave, one of the boys asked if I'd do him a big favor and pointed to his computer screen, where a page layout had a chunk of white space he needed to fill. And so I sat for an interview.