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28 Dec 2017, 1:26 pm
For nearly a decade now, The Daily Record has been fortunate enough to feature a weekly column from C. [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 6:43 am
Ten or so players from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra gave another of their comforting, impromptu in memoriam concerts Monday afternoon. We all knew why. Oh, of course, another mass killing. We were all suffering. Everyone knows we are all in the cross hairs of fate. Music helps us escape reality or tolerate fear or warn ... [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 5:49 pm
Is justice for Freddie Gray possible? Only if you think a better system might result from the half-dozen trials now underway. That would be monumental, of course. Akin to a legacy. Unhappily for some, a hung jury in the case of Officer William Porter shows that the system is working. He stood before a jury ... [read post]
12 Nov 2015, 3:23 pm
To the growing number of brave men and women who say they want to be mayor of Baltimore, a few suggestions: [read post]
17 Jul 2015, 8:29 am
The Southwest Partnership promises to illustrate what city neighborhoods might do for themselves if they have powerful, progressive allies. A remarkable aspect of this alliance? The institution came to the communities. [read post]
13 Jun 2015, 2:14 am
When the mayor and the governor decide on a response to the Freddie Gray challenge, they will need buy-in. But buy-in to what? [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 2:39 pm
He won’t do it. You read it here first. Former Gov. Bob Ehrlich is having fun — with us and with himself, right? [read post]
3 Sep 2015, 12:41 pm
Voters who live outside the political bubble of Annapolis must be wondering about the alternative universe evoked as former Gov. Marvin Mandel passes from the scene. Almost 40 years after he became the poster child of a state in the grips of political self-dealing, Mandel died this week at age 95. He left on a ... [read post]
10 Jul 2015, 6:42 am
If we hadn’t given up on controlling gun violence after the 2012 massacre in Newtown, the last shred of hope withered after the killings in Charleston. A pathetic drill replaces hope. Not again, we say to ourselves before we say: Of course, again. What did we expect? Nonetheless, shock and grief and loss. And then another ... [read post]
15 May 2015, 4:46 am
Many of us know about our own shovel and broom crews that turned out to clean up after the rioting. They were the vanguard of an informal Baltimore Strong movement. Turns out the city has kindred spirits across the nation. Set up by the Baltimore Community Foundation a day after the burning and looting, “The ... [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 3:23 pm
In the fourth year of his appearances here, the essayist Roger Rosenblatt talked writing with some of the literary world’s marquee stars. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 3:44 pm
What do we know so far about the benefits Baltimore can expect from the Horseshoe Casino? [read post]
3 May 2015, 3:17 pm
Real change? A change in the culture of policing? Was Marilyn Mosby’s quick decision to charge six Baltimore policy officers with crimes, including “depraved heart murder,” the change Cooke promised? It never has been. But it was a major step in the right direction. The historical record would not make us confident that justice will be served. That’s why, after Mosby’s tension-easing charges, mass rallies have continued. Some thought her quick action would… [read post]
30 Jun 2016, 4:13 pm
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Father Greg Boyle’s conversation with a homeboy called Louie moved seamlessly from refrigerators, to beers to one-on-ones with God. In his multi-sided Los Angeles ministry known as Homeboy Industries, the Jesuit priest spends much of his recruiting Christian’s to a deeper understanding of what he calls “following Jesus with integrity.” He’s famous ... [read post]
9 Jun 2016, 3:04 pm
Do we really have time for silly bits of political theater? Don’t we want a smart, dynamic, on-the-move City Hall? Wouldn’t it be nice if the clock moved faster, bringing our new leadership on board? I ask because, even as the nation focuses on the Freddie Gray trials, our leaders engage in petty personal politics. ... [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 1:56 pm
Wait a minute! That was way too easy. I refer to imminent passage of a House of Delegates budget. Not a murmur of dissent from the second floor currently occupied by a Republican. [read post]
30 Jul 2015, 10:46 am
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Ava DuVernay, acclaimed director of the film “Selma,” collided once again with the ongoing history of racial violence in America as she edited her movie. Dealing with a scene in which a civil rights worker is murdered by an Alabama state trooper, she came home that day to learn of Michael Brown’s ... [read post]
22 May 2015, 7:27 am
Hoping to offer perspective and support to a city sagging under the weight of unrest, the Maryland Film Festival’s Jed Deitz called David Simon. Simon’s working on an HBO treatment of Taylor Branch’s civil rights history. He seemed to be thinking along the same lines. What if we offer a look into the project’s “writers’ ... [read post]
30 Oct 2014, 3:35 pm
Democrats are missing an opportunity in apple red Frederick. [read post]
10 Jul 2014, 4:55 pm
This just in: Larry Hogan is the underdog in the race for governor of Maryland. [read post]
