What to do, if anything, about the boys and young men who offer to wash windshields at busy intersections? On the show today: Wrapping up a week of squeegee news with Sun reporter Yvonne Wenger and reflections on the poor in our midst with American culture commentator Sheri Parks.
Nobody asked me, but somebody at Sunday afternoon’s debate in Easton between Rep. Andy Harris and his Democratic challenger, Jesse Colvin, should ask the incumbent Republican about the recent United Nations forecast on the effects of climate change. The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on...
People who refer to Baltimore as “a third-world city” — I have heard from a few of them in the past few days, with regard to squeegee kids — apparently did not get the memo about the elimination of “third-world” as a description of developing countries or cities. People who use the term also strike...
Judging from reader reaction to my most recent column, few topics of local interest generate opinions at wild extremes like the “squeegee kids” of Baltimore. To some people, the squeegee kids are a menace to be feared, and their presence on the streets symbolic of a city in decline. To others,...
A few months ago, someone passed along an emailed letter from a retired police officer who described his encounter, at Conway and Charles streets in downtown Baltimore, with “10 to 12 young blacks” who had spray bottles and squeegees in their hands. The man had driven into the city with his wife...
Nobody asked them, but several baseball-savvy readers of my column came up with more suggestions for Chris Davis following his monumentally-miserable 2018 season. The distressed slugger batted .168 and had 16 home runs in the disastrous Orioles season that joyfully ended on Sept. 30. Davis has...
Donald J. Trump does not listen to scientists. Scientists look at sea-level rise caused by the warming Earth and warn that Tangier Island, in the Virginia waters of the Chesapeake Bay, could be underwater in as few as 25 years. President Trump gets on the phone and, with the confidence of God himself,...
Chris Davis, the disaster within the disaster that was the 2018 Orioles season — the worst in the team’s history and the source of more misery than the Jones Falls after a deluge — must be the most self-conscious man in the country. I mean, wouldn’t you be? A few years ago, he was Crush. Now he’s...
On Sunday, downtown Baltimore was the greatest city in America. There were people everywhere, even in Camden Yards to see the Orioles win the final game of the team’s worst-ever season. There was a robust and fanciful atmosphere around the convention center, site of the three-day Comic-Con. I had...