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America needs fixing, so ramp up training and wages in the building trades
Three statistics from federal agencies make the case for a renewed national effort to train men and women in building trades and the special skills needed for three specific purposes: To fix the ...
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ProPublica and NBC show how righteous media serve democracy
With an administration pumping out the most virulent anti-press messages since the White House team of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, it’s important for critics to remind readers of the righteo...
An American from way back, when the country was new, would be shocked in Trump time
This happened 208 years ago, in a long-gone furnace town called Martha in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. A man named Caleb Earle, a clerk in one of the iron foundries of the pines, kept a diary....
Disney Channel sets writing scholarship in memory of Eunetta T. Boone
Th Disney Channel is honoring the memory of writer and producer Eunetta T. Boone, who started her media career at the Baltimore Evening Sun, with a scholarship for aspiring writers. The announc...
Maryland estimate for seawalls against rising tides: $27 billion
A third bridge to get more cars and trucks across the Chesapeake Bay, wider highways to move traffic along the Capital Beltway — those might be the ambitions of Maryland’s road-warrior govern...
Roger Ailes on Showtime: The ugly legacy of a media monster
If you want to be entertained by an outstanding performance and enlightened as to how we became such such a hopelessly polarized country, Showtime’s “The Loudest Voice” is the ticket for yo...
Zurawik: Night 2 of Democrats debate hotter, better than a winning Night 1
Those who thought it was too early in the 2020 election cycle for anything important to happen in the Democrats’ TV debates this week thought wrong. So wrong. If Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s win...
Zurawik: Democratic debate draws large national and Baltimore audiences on first night
Night 1 of the Democratic primary debates drew 15.3 million viewers across NBC, MNBC and Telemundo channels, exceeding the predictions of many media analysts. It also attracted 11 million lives...
Democratic debate, Night 1: Technical glitches aside, this is what a conversation about democracy sounds like
The technical problems of chatter from off-camera open mikes and several signal interruptions were surprising and maybe even unforgivable on a production the magnitude of NBC’s first Democratic...
Reverse Baltimore's population slide: Find investors for 'an incredibly high-potential city'
Call me a skeptic when it comes to government-hatched plans to spur private investment in the most distressed “zones” in U.S. cities, including Baltimore. We had Enterprise Zones and Empowerm...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-column-0626-story.html
Trump's impeachable offense: Ignoring climate change
If anything in the second decade of the 21st Century warrants impeachment of an American president, it should be this: Ignoring science and the harmful effects of climate change, and putting huma...
Zurawik: Trump's got Twitter thumbs poised to troll Democratic debates. Will media let him get away with it?
This week’s twin Democratic debates provide the media’s first big test of the 2020 campaign. It’s not just about how they’ll manage this unwieldy field or how much control NBC, Telemundo ...
Rodricks: Bill Dolan, blamed for his brother's overdose, dies of one
You could dismiss it as the voice of grief, but there’s plausibility in what Bill Dolan’s mother says — that the decision by Pennsylvania police and prosecutors to charge him with contribut...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-column-0621-story.html
More criticism for Sinclair over 'code red' weather warnings
The Baltimore-based Sinclair Broadcast Group has been in the news the last two weeks for the controversial firing of a meteorologist at one of its stations who called out the company on-air over ...
Wells Fargo stepping up again in Baltimore with $6 million toward homeownership
When I got to the part about Wells Fargo in “Broken Bargain,” Kathleen Day’s excellent book on American financial institutions and the disasters they have wrought, I had to ask: “How is ...
Reverse Baltimore's population slide: Green more city neighborhoods
Demolition seems to be Larry Hogan’s top priority when it comes to Baltimore; he gets a real kick out of it, too. The Maryland governor put on a hard hat the other day and got behind the contro...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-column-0616-story.html
Social media, toxic masculinity make big trouble in Ohio town, throughout the culture today
If “Roll Red Roll,” the film that launches a new season of the PBS documentary series POV on Monday, only chronicled the facts of the case of a 16-year-old girl who was raped by members of a ...
Sony announces reboot of 'Boondocks' with Aaron McGruder onboard
A reboot of “The Boondocks” is in the works with creator and University of Maryland graduate Aaron McGruder on board, according to reports out of the 2019 Annecy International Animated Film F...
Followup: A correction about Nancy Pelosi and that white dress
In the interest of setting straight the record of Nancy Pelosi’s time in Baltimore, allow me to provide a brief follow-up to Sunday’s column about her family portrait and that white dress sh...
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A deeper look at Baltimore's population loss: smaller households
So, last Thursday morning I’m driving back into Baltimore on O’Donnell Street, having just attended the annual business showcase of the Dundalk Chamber of Commerce at the Best Western Plus. I...
Nancy Pelosi in a white dress, and an 'unnerving question' about her Baltimore family portrait
Nobody asked me, but somebody must know how a large oil painting of the famous D’Alesandro family — including a Baltimore mayor, a future Baltimore mayor and a future Speaker of the U.S. Hous...
Weekend adventure: Off the beaten path in Western Maryland's peat bogs, cool corridors
Deep Creek Lake and the Wisp ski and golf resort are the most popular destinations for visitors to Garrett County, Maryland’s mountain county in the far western reach of the state, a three-plu...
Axios on HBO, New York Times on FX: Can journalism find new audiences on Sunday night TV?
I love seeing the surge in non-fiction TV programming, as more and more news and information platforms try to find new audiences with new formats in a medium some critics have been incorrectly ca...
Ratings show WJZ lost almost half of key audience for 5 p.m. news in wake of Bubala controversy
WJZ-TV lost almost half of its 5 p.m. news audience in a key demographic during the May sweeps in the wake of a controversial question by anchorwoman Mary Bubala and her subsequent firing, accord...
In Baltimore, turning an abandoned church into the 'Ministry of Brewing'
And so, later this year, there will be a brewery where priests once celebrated Mass, where thousands of couples were wed, where thousands of babies were baptized. In fact, large stainless steel t...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-0605-story.html
Rodricks: Trump, political tribalism and the push for impeachment
A year and a half before the next national election, a look at the murky road ahead with presidential historian Richard Striner and pollster Mileah Kromer.
In Sandtown, a new and needed mission for Old Douglass
To understand where Archie Lee and Marlo Hargrove want to go — and I’ll get you there in a Baltimore minute — you should first understand where they’ve come from. They are survivors. Th...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-column-0602-story.html
Idris Elba, Laura Linney, Russell Crowe: Summertime is TV's best time for fine drama
Idris Elba, Russell Crowe, Emma Thompson, Ben Kingsley, Ruth Wilson and Laura Linney. Even in an era that has rightfully come to be known as a golden age of TV drama, that’s a lot of talent for...
Rodricks: A few kids behaved badly at the Inner Harbor. What would you suggest?
So tell me what the solution is. What would you propose to do about a situation like the one that occurred Saturday night at the Inner Harbor? I ask because the response to the teen mayhem is at ...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-blog-0529-story.html
Mayhem at the Inner Harbor, ugly rhetoric from Howard County — neither helps Baltimore
Thirty years ago this month, Donald Trump took out full-page ads in New York newspapers to call for the death penalty after five black teens were accused of raping and beating a woman in Central ...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-column-0528-story.html
Doctored video of Pelosi: Trump, Giuliani, Fox hit new low - even for them
If the ugly video attempt to smear Nancy Pelosi that was fully aided and abetted by the president of the United States, his personal lawyer and the Fox Business Network makes you as angry as it h...
Reverse Baltimore’s population slide: Promote the tech ecosystem, keep the geniuses here
In a recent column on reversing Baltimore’s population slide, I suggested that the city, starting with its mayor, devote time each year to pitching college students on staying after graduation ...
A Baltimore expert in restoring historic houses says Woodberry homes should be rebuilt
While some might take a wrecking ball to old buildings in Baltimore, Marty Azola has been saving them and figuring out new uses for them over the last half-century, and he thinks the two 1840s Wo...
Reverse Baltimore's population slide: Convert more vacants to homes, more renters to homeowners
Aside from the obvious — better results from city schools, fewer shootings and less crime generally — there are two efforts that, when ramped up, could keep more Baltimore families from leavi...
Zurawik: Why Democrats need to take moral high road and just say no to Fox town halls
Democrats need to just say no to Fox News once and for all. The party has a wide, deep, diverse and very impressive cast of candidates for president in 2020 at a time when the nation faces prof...
Exit interview with Herb Smith, who co-wrote the book on Maryland politics
An exit interview with Herb Smith, who's retiring after 46 years teaching political science. Smith co-wrote the book on Maryland politics.
Preakness TV audience down about 10 percent year to year in Baltimore — and twice that nationally
The TV audience in Baltimore for Saturday’s Preakness race was down 10.65 percent compared with that in 2018. Those are household figures from Nielsen that measure the size of the audience du...
Seeking compensation for a wrongful conviction and an 'altogether tragic life'
I look into his face and see everything James Williams tells me, everything his young lawyers describe, everything in the psychiatric evaluations and police reports. I see confirmation of a hard ...
Zurawik: Frontline goes into the shadows to show how Supreme Court moved so far to the right
If the Supreme Court is our last best hope to stop Donald Trump’s march toward an imperial presidency, Frontline has some bad news: After more than three decades of plotting and packing by Sena...
All said and just about done, Cross Street Market prepares to reopen
Sometimes — check that, many times — I think we do not know what we want, and I mean diehard Baltimoreans, the ones who actually live in the city and plan to stay here until they die or polar...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-0515-story.html
Former WEAA general manager will take over at WYPR July 1
LaFontaine E. Oliver, a former general manger at Morgan State University’s WEAA, has been named the new president and general manager at public radio station WYPR. He succeeds Tony Brandon, w...
Reverse Baltimore’s population slide: Kick the west side into gear
One of the most important dates on the Baltimore calendar for 2019 will be July 9. That is when proposals for what used to be known as The Superblock are due at the city’s economic development ...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-sunday-0512-story.html
Zurawik: Inside the firestorm of reaction to WJZ firing Mary Bubala. Did punishment fit the crime?
In 29 years of covering media in Baltimore, I cannot recall a story I wrote that resulted in as immediate and intense a reaction as Tuesday’s report announcing WJZ’s firing of anchorwoman Ma...
Wrongly convicted still waiting for compensation for lost years
Considering the thousands upon thousands of criminal cases that have been investigated by police throughout Maryland over the last 30 years, and considering the number of criminal defendants who ...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-column-0509-story.html
Rodricks: What do we have to do to stop the killings? Everything.
The violence in Baltimore has something in common with climate change: They not only seem like intractable problems, one local and one global in scale, but both can make all other things — thin...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-column-0507-story.html
WJZ says anchorwoman Mary Bubala is out in wake of her question about race, gender of recent Baltimore mayors
WJZ anchorwoman Mary Bubala, who came under fire Thursday for a question she asked about the race, gender and leadership of Baltimore’s past three mayors, is no longer with the station, accordi...
Bill O'Reilly is back — on radio in 100 cities including Baltimore's WBAL
Bill O’Reilly, who was pushed out at Fox News in 2017 in the wake of multiple accusations of sexual harassment and reports of huge settlements paid to his alleged victims, is back in our media ...
Saving Sellers Mansion, at long last, could spark revival around Lafayette Square
Such a splendid day, the second of May, and you could smell the grass in Lafayette Square because a city worker had just run a lawn mower through the place, and then senior citizens from the Sain...
WJZ again makes news for wrong reason on big news day with question on race, leadership
Last week on the day the FBI raided the home of Catherine Pugh, WJZ published information it said came from sources claiming the mayor had fled the city. And when it became clear through the rep...
From revelations to resignation in record time: What Pugh's quick political demise says about Baltimore
Catherine Pugh’s demise as mayor of Baltimore took less than two months. That’s astounding. That may be a Maryland record for revelation-to-resignation, rivaled only by the relatively snappy ...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-pugh-0502-story.html
Zurawik: Pugh's out as Baltimore mayor and Young is in, but the fight for transparent, open city government has just begun
Catherine Pugh is no longer the mayor of Baltimore, and that seems to already make us a better city. But this is no time for self-congratulation among members of the media. I’ve been seeing l...
Zurawik: More ridicule for Baltimore politics as 98 Rock mocks Pugh outside her home
A producer from the 98 Rock morning show stood across the street from Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh’s home Thursday and mocked her with a “wellness basket” and calls to come out of her hou...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/zurawik/bs-fe-zontv-98-rock-pugh-20190502-story.html
Zurawik: As anti-Semitism rises, a ‘numbness’ to hate in our media and society
Days of Remembrance, the nation’s official commemoration of the Holocaust, comes to a close Sunday, but we should not move on without deeper consideration of how increasingly visible and dange...
Nobody asked me, but: Rodricks on saving the rockfish and the Preakness, plus Gino and the Julia Child of Italy
Nobody asked me but, if we want to lower the mortality of Chesapeake Bay rockfish, then recreational anglers could just stop fishing for them for a year and catch and eat invasive catfish and sna...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-0501-story.html
Zurawik: The upside of Trump rallies, the downside of the darkness he invokes
I spent way too much time with Trump related media this weekend for anyone’s mental health. As I write this, my head is in a very jangled space. The ugliness of President Donald Trump’s words...
Maryland keeps a model prisoner locked up 15 years too long
When they convene next year in Annapolis, delegates and senators need to put an end to the system that has kept 68-year-old Calvin Ash in prison too long — nearly 15 years longer than the Maryl...
Rodricks: Baltimore Mayor Pugh might need an intervention to make the right decision
I just received a letter urging me and others to hold an intervention for an old friend who, at the age of 71, still burns candles at both ends and recently suffered serious injuries in a car cra...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-blog-0426-story.html
WJZ should have clearly corrected its report citing sources on Pugh fleeing state
One thing you can always count on with a big, fast-breaking story is that social media will invariably be filled with some false information and irresponsible speculation connected to it. Thurs...
Mayor Catherine Pugh and Gov. Larry Hogan's two very different weeks
Baltimore Sun columnist Dan Rodricks discusses the high-profile moments-in-parallel with McDaniel College political science professor Herb Smith, Sun editorial page editor Andy Green and Sun Stat...
The media power and moral authority of Elijah Cummings
If there is one Democrat with a potent enough presence in the media to challenge and possibly even take down President Donald Trump, it’s not Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala H...
Reverse Baltimore's population slide: Retain more college grads
On the December day in 2016 when Catherine Pugh took the oath of office, I offered 10 suggestions for Baltimore’s new mayor , including this one: “If you need to make a decision that gives yo...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-column-0424-story.html
'Charm City' on PBS will make you feel hope, outrage over our deeply troubled Baltimore
“Charm City,” a PBS documentary focusing on some of the citizens who are trying to save Baltimore one day at a time from its culture of crime and corruption, could hardly come at a better tim...
Reverse Baltimore's population slide: Bring on the immigrants
Baltimore had a net loss of some 7,000 residents between the summer of 2017 and the summer of 2018, according to the latest Census Bureau estimate. That’s the biggest single-year loss in nearly...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-column-0421-story.html
Zurawik: April Ryan is right to call for firing of Sanders for lying and slander at White House podium
While the right-wing messaging machine is trying to make it sound like a personality spat, April Ryan’s call for White House press secretary Sarah Sanders to be fired is a righteous and importa...
Zurawik: TV's unblinking eye sees through William Barr
If the sight of Attorney General William Barr on TV Thursday looking and sounding more like a campaign spin doctor for President Donald Trump than the chief law enforcement officer of the United ...
With another charge dropped, a frequent Baltimore defendant evades guilt again
Tuesday morning in the city of Baltimore, in the grand courthouse with the marble walls and murals of great moments in Maryland history, the state did what it has done numerous times before in th...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-column-0417-story.html
Zurawik: Cable TV owns 2020 race with town halls, candidate interviews. Mostly, that's a good thing
Critics of prime-time cable news often dismiss it as an empty-headed noise machine, a partisan shout-fest that mainly confuses and polarizes its audience as it makes more and more prime-time mone...
If Orioles' Chris Davis walked away from millions, he would not be the first
It lasted for about four seconds during the first minute of the 1 o’clock hour on Thursday, in the second inning of the Orioles-Athletics game at Camden Yards. It happened just as a yellow heli...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-column-0414-story.html
PBS documentary offers intimate, moving look at human toll of deportation
In a sea of disinformation, lies, spin and social media hate mongering, it’s hard to find any clarity these days on the issue of immigration on our Southern border. This week, coverage of the...
Rodricks: Vignarajah comes into the 2020 mayor's race wisely focused on crime and corruption
It will be up to city voters to decide if Thiru Vignarajah is the right man to be the next mayor of Baltimore, but one thing is clear from his announcement and my recent talk with him — he has ...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-thiru-0410-story.html
A new book about birds of Maryland arrives with spring and the reality of climate change
During a hike along a creek in Baltimore County last week, we found in the thick mud of its sloping banks the huge tracks of the great blue heron. They were unmistakable because of their size, be...
'Fosse/Verdon' on FX: Looking back at a celebrated show biz marriage through a #MeToo lens
Bob Fosse, the celebrated and tormented choreographer and director, sure looks different in the #MeToo era to me. That’s the thought that has stuck with me since screening the first two hours...
Mike Busch, Catherine Pugh and that thing called integrity
I have heard or seen the word “integrity” invoked quite a bit over the last three weeks, though sadly more in elegy than as tribute to the living. Harry Hughes, the former Maryland governor w...
Baltimore Sun reporting on Pugh 'Healthy Holly' deals highlighted on CNN
Brian Stelter, host of CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” highlighted The Sun’s coverage of Mayor Catherine Pugh’s “Healthy Holly” book deals Sunday, saying it showed the importance of local...
Rodricks: Ferries won't replace the Bay Bridge we have — but they could replace one we don't have yet
Today’s column follows up on four earlier columns, starting with one from last month about getting cars and trucks across the Chesapeake Bay: Mail and social media comments ran roughly 8-to-1 i...
Zurawik: Fix the corruption (and crime and schools and blight) and Baltimore’s image will follow
It has been a brutal month for Baltimore’s image. The March 17 cover of the New York Times Sunday Magazine featured two row houses in shadows and darkness with the headline: “The Tragedy o...
After Pugh, it's time for Baltimore's new leaders to step up
To those who shake their heads and say Baltimoreans foolishly keep electing crooks to public office, let me politely offer a little perspective: You’re wrong. I hate to brighten your unrelentin...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-coluymn-0402-story.html
Zurawik: Mayor Pugh wanted to 'change the narrative' about Baltimore. Then she reinforced its worst elements.
Mayor Catherine Pugh came into office calling on us “to change the narrative” and create a more positive image of Baltimore. But she herself has reinforced one of the most negative and destr...
The 1819 Maryland case that affirmed Hamilton's genius on banks and federal power
With "Hamilton" coming to Baltimore this June, some Maryland history related to Alexander Hamilton, founder of the nation's financial system and its first Secretary of the Treasury.
In the opioid crisis, a Baltimore man faces blame in his brother's death
Two years ago, in the first days of spring, came word from the police and health authorities that something bad was about to get worse: An insanely dangerous drug called carfentanil had arrived i...
Apology aside, Pugh is stuck with how the Healthy Holly book deal looks, and it's not good
Nobody asked me, but if Catherine Pugh felt so strongly about childhood obesity — getting kids to exercise and eat nutritious food — how come most of Baltimore never heard about her brainchil...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-blog-pugh-0329-story.html
Baltimore's old Tommy fire boat needs to land in a better place
Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, has bigger concerns right now — and so does the mayor of Baltimore — but, when time allows, they might want to give some attention to an old fire boat...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-column-0326-story.html
Dan Rodricks: MedStar scheme makes 'Healthy Holly' look like child's play
In the midst of the seedy scandal at the University of Maryland Medical Systems — involving members of the UMMS board, including the mayor of Baltimore and her profitable deal on “Healthy Hol...
The towering potential of Baltimore hindered by crime and chaos
On a crummy day in December, the contractor Marty Azola , who made a career of renovating old buildings, stepped out of the amazing Ivy Hotel, his crowning achievement at Biddle and Calvert stree...
Eunetta T. Boone, Hollywood producer and former Evening Sun sportswriter, dies
Eunetta T. Boone, who started her media career as a sportswriter at The Evening Sun and went on to become a highly successful Hollywood producer for such TV shows as the “The Hughleys” and ...
Zurawik: 'Veep' not so funny, wickedly sharp after departure of Iannucci, arrival of Trump
I loved “Veep,” but I stopped watching regularly when creator Armando Iannucci left the HBO series after four seasons. I could handle the series leaving Baltimore in 2015 after four years t...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/zurawik/bs-fe-zontv-veep-hbo-20190320-story.html
Rodricks: Healthy Holly could become Haunting Holly for Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh
And with that — a 93-word statement of resignation from the board of the University of Maryland Medical System — the mayor of Baltimore moved on to other matters or, in her words, “pressin...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-column-0320-story.html
Let's remember and celebrate past heroes as we deal with current presidential crisis
In the midst of President Donald Trump’s screwy and alarming Twitter tirade over the weekend in connection with Jeanine Pirro’s suspension, his depiction on “Saturday Night Live” and the ...
The massive redevelopment of the old Bethlehem Steel land in Sparrows Point
With Bethlehem Steel long gone, Tradepoint Atlantic, a private joint venture, is in the process of redeveloping the waterfront land in Baltimore County into a hub of e-commerce and manufacturing....
Trump tweets on Pirro's absence suggest Fox feeling some boycott heat
President Trump was upset when he couldn’t find one of his favorite Fox hosts, Jeanine Pirro, on Fox News Saturday night, so he took to Twitter Sunday morning to vent about it. “Bring back ...
Rodricks: Swamped in sleaze, it's easy to forget that honest, selfless people abound
I come to this column having just finished a conference call with two young attorneys who represent a troubled man who spent 12 years in a Maryland prison for crimes he did not commit. At 67, the...
Tucker Carlson's politics aren't the issue, it's his ugly, divisive, hateful rhetoric
Advertiser boycotts played a role in taking down hosts Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck on Fox News in years past. Here’s hoping for the same fate for Tucker Carlson today as the prime-time hos...
In the midst of West Baltimore blight, an ambition for new housing and a cup of coffee
Someone spray-painted a question on the sheet of plywood that covers the front door of one of the old, lovely and abandoned three-story rowhouses near Lafayette Square in West Baltimore: “Why n...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-column-0313-story.html
Mayor's State of the City address short on energy and vision
“State of … “ speeches are supposed to leave listeners feeling energized, animated and ready to go out to do whatever it takes to achieve a better future for their city, state or nation. ...
With electric ferries, Maryland won't need a third bay bridge
Gov. Larry Hogan has more pressing matters — saving Pimlico Race Course , keeping the Preakness in Baltimore , working with the General Assembly to get Maryland up to full speed on funding publ...
From 'The Keepers' and Adnan Syed, to Michael Jackson and R. Kelly, a rising tide of documentaries
In 2004, I wrote one of the most personally depressing stories I ever reported after interviewing documentary filmmaker Orlando Bagwell in what was then the Harlem office of his Roja Productions ...
Story of Good Samaritan's death in Baltimore was traumatic. Now that police call it false, it's even worse.
It was a Friday night in December, and for almost an hour before his wife’s memorial service, Keith Smith stood in the aisles of Helping Hands Ministries in Churchville, Harford County, accepti...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rodricks-column-0304-story.html
After four decades under cover, a Baltimore party band records its first album
Gazze is one of the Baltimore area's oldest party bands, going back to teen dances in the 1970s. In this episode: Can a group that played other people's music for 40-plus years come up with its o...