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5 Jun 2015, 6:46 am
Martin O’Malley stood before the nation on Saturday, promising to rescue the American Dream. Big promise. And yet, just by running, he’s rescued part of it.I’m talking about the dream – the challenge – your mother and father put in front of you. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 3:16 pm
Sniping, snarky, negative campaigns are a turn-off for many voters. But strategists insist they work: Mudslingers win. [read post]
25 Sep 2014, 1:55 pm
Imagine it’s Nov. 5. You just woke up to Maryland’s version of the Eric Cantor story. Republican Larry Hogan is governor-elect of Maryland. [read post]
17 Jul 2014, 4:16 pm
Maryland’s next governor may have to spend some time counseling Baltimore leaders on the importance of working together. [read post]
11 Dec 2014, 3:02 pm
And another thing about the recent election: The anti-government zealots got off scot-free. No one challenged their premise: Government is the enemy. [read post]
26 Feb 2015, 3:28 pm
Are we about to see a step toward right-sizing of prisons? [read post]
1 Sep 2016, 3:51 pm
This week’s announcement of a major health initiative in Baltimore reminds us of our odd leader-in waiting, leaderless city. Dr. Leana S. Wen, the city health commissioner, says her department will undertake a fundamental overhaul of Baltimore’s health system. We have a mayor of course, but Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is an increasingly remote presence as ... [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 3:34 pm
“We’ve seen time and time again, for decades, developers make big promises to the people of Baltimore. They’re given big pots of money, they always promise great jobs that they’re going to create for the citizens of Baltimore, and every time we learn what that is … a small number of poverty-wage jobs that don’t ... [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 1:20 pm
William Donald Schaefer would be shouting, “Hallelujah!” The mayor would be on the phone to Ronald J. Daniels, president of The Johns Hopkins University, and to Ronald R. Peterson, head of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System. He’d be saying, “Attaboy,” or words to that effect. He’d be responding to the university’s announcement Wednesday ... [read post]
30 Dec 2015, 1:33 pm
It was of, course, the year of Freddie Gray, as 2016 may be and the year after that … Unless we take advantage of the opportunity we have, it will be a sad Freddie Gray legacy, like it or not. We’ve had to face grim reality without some of the sustaining comfort of sports. Neither ... [read post]
12 Mar 2015, 3:36 pm
Judith Krummeck’s lovely meditation on wanderlust — and the “beguiling” United States — begins with that funny yet serious line. [read post]
5 Mar 2015, 5:13 pm
Announcing her retirement at the end of her current term in 2016, Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski will leave with her historic stature in place. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 6:51 am
This year’s GOP presidential primary looks like an overloaded raft of laughing teenagers with a sign saying, “Always Room for One More.” [read post]
8 May 2015, 8:00 am
Saddened and bruised, life in Baltimore goes on. So let us consider winners and losers from the week that put Baltimore on the expanding map of American cities caught in the turmoil of deep lingering poverty and police-community conflict. Freddie Gray’s family transcended the loss of their dead son. Baltimore police were implicated, and the ... [read post]
25 Dec 2014, 12:00 pm
There may be nothing more purposeful and confident in Baltimore than Buck Showalter on his way to the mound to change pitchers. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 1:07 pm
Who’s really on trial in the Freddie Gray cases? This week the defendant was Officer Caesar Goodson, who drove the vehicle that delivered Gray to the station house. A judge Thursday acquitted him of all counts; he had faced the most serious charge of all the officers: “depraved heart murder.” State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby leveled ... [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 2:52 pm
Meet Larry Hogan, master GOP party builder. Maryland Republicans have hungered and thirsted for a “bench” — not a place to sit, but a launching pad. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 4:03 pm
A teacher takes on another class of kindergartners, helping them with reading. Her commitment pre-dates the Freddie Gray upheaval but it answers a question: What can I do now? My city is hurting. Even as we watch the first Freddie Gray police trial, we are responding to the problems his life illustrates by many but ... [read post]
31 Mar 2016, 3:28 pm
Old, slightly modified, newspaper joke: What is a columnist? A columnist is someone who sits on the hilltop while the battle rages. When it’s all over, he rides down and shoots the wounded. Translation: It’s easy for him to judge, he had no skin in the game. It’s easy for him to take shots at ... [read post]
26 Nov 2014, 2:51 pm
The Thornton Commission. It’s one of most ambitious and widely recognized spending adventures in Maryland history. [read post]
