In Annapolis, Democrats may have hit on a slogan that will carry over to the gubernatorial campaign. “Marylanders are tired of having their governor put the right wing ahead of the right thing,” said state Democratic Party chairman Terry Lierman after Gov. Robert Ehrlich vetoed a slew of bills last week, including one raising the state’s minimum wage …

At BWI, that new Southwest Airlines terminal is sleek, but the baggage retrieval system there was a joke in the days after it opened last week. Ask any of the hundreds of people who waited and waited for their bags on Saturday night. Cheers sounded whenever bags from a flight finally reached a carousel …

In Calvert County, more than a few locals were stunned that the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant is on a list of a half-dozen potential sites for a new reactor. Part of the shock is its proximity to Dominion Cove Point Liquefied Natural Gas loading terminal and the difficulty in emergency evacuation in a county with only one main north-south highway, Route 2-4. A consortium of energy companies announced last week that it intends to apply to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for licenses to build plants at two of the six sites. The others are in New York, Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi …

In North Carolina, lobbyists for Omega Protein, the Texas company upsetting Chesapeake Bay’s balance by harvesting millions of menhaden, last week helped kill legislation in a North Carolina House committee to ban factory boats such as theirs from their coast from May to October. Omega produces fish oil and other products from the menhaden that Bay sportfish need to thrive …

Our Creature Feature is a tale from South Africa about a friendship between an unlikely pair of orphans, an abandoned little goat named Bok-Bok and a huge baby rhino called Clover. For reasons that animal experts can’t quite grasp, the pair have become inseparable at the Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve near Johannesburg.

“We were all shocked. It’s amazing that two different species can get on so well,” the reserve’s Fran Berkowitz told Reuters as the pair lunched together. But these stories don’t all have happy endings; a few years ago, an elephant in South Africa rolled over and crushed its buddy, a sheep, while the two slept together.