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Baltimore Sun columnists
Jay Hancock
A business columnist bids farewell and looks back - February 26, 2012
Marta H. Mossburg
Defining down 'rich' won't save Maryland's budget - May 22, 2012
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Mike Preston
Terps are most dangerous team heading into final four - May 20, 2012
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Dan Rodricks
Lack of familiarity breeds contempt for Baltimore? - May 25, 2012
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Thomas F. Schaller
Government is flawed, but markets are too - May 15, 2012
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Our editorials
Another boost for same-sex marriage
How ironic that a divorce will be remembered for strengthening the rights of all Marylanders to be married regardless of sexual orientation.
Reducing the threat of Armageddon
President Obama achieved a major foreign policy goal in 2010 when he concluded the New START Treaty committing the U.S. and Russia to reduce the size of their long-range nuclear arsenals by a third within six years, to 1,550 warheads on each side. But as the president made clear in remarks at the...
We need a war on lead poisoning
The reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cut its threshold for lead poisoning from 10 micrograms per deciliter to 5 micrograms were something of a simplification. What the CDC said, after years of study and discussion, was that no level of lead exposure for children...
Baltimore and bigotry
It is always tempting to ignore the bluster and bombast emanating from the vicinity of Patrick L. McDonough, the Baltimore County delegate and radio talk show host who considers himself a man of the people but mostly is a self-promoting bomb-thrower. His is a career built on angry sound bites and...
At Preakness time, a new optimism
The Preakness Stakes arrives at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday absent one of the event's hallowed traditions. Sure, there will be sundresses and hats, black-eyed Susans, drunken infield revelry and,...
The Sun at 175
If Arunah S. Abell dared to imagine 175 years into the future when he produced the first copies of The Sun on May 17, 1837, he almost surely would have guessed that the nature of his business would remain fundamentally unchanged. The news would be printed daily onto broad sheets of paper and sold...
Baltimore welcomes a new archbishop
Today's installation of William E. Lori as the 16th archbishop of Baltimore is a noteworthy event, not only for the half-million Catholics in an archdiocese that stretches from Middle River to the mountains of Western Maryland, but for non-Catholics, too. The church continues...
Special session fallout
They did what they had to do, and they went home. That's the best that can be said of the special session of the Maryland General Assembly that concluded today. The tax increases, spending cuts, fund transfers and other measures lawmakers approved in 21/2 days this week protect public education,...
The St. Patrick's Day brawl
New details of the Baltimore police response to a particularly large, unruly and violent crowd of youths downtown over theSt. Patrick's Dayweekend not only raise the question of whether the department has the resources it needs to anticipate and respond to such incidents but also whether it can be...
Annapolis' unfinished business: Transportation funding
Not long after the Maryland General Assembly last adjourned back in mid-April, gasoline prices were approaching $4 a gallon. Currently, a price-conscious shopper can purchase a gallon of regular unleaded in the Baltimore area for as little as $3.50.
Crowding Balto. Co.'s classrooms
The results of Baltimore County Superintendent Joe Hairston's poor decision to cut teachers from high schools are now clear: A sharp drop in the number of classes available to students (including Advanced Placement courses), increasing class sizes and overtaxed facilities, such as chemistry labs...
Setting boundaries in Frederick
How far should a locally elected official have to go to avoid business dealings in his city or county?
Restoring Mount Vernon
Baltimore's Washington Monument in Mount Vernon Square is one of the city's most recognizable landmarks, a classical Doric column towering 178 feet above its elegant surroundings. But nearly 200 years after its completion in 1829, the building and its grounds are showing their age, and the city can'...
Lesson of a high-school prank
If never having done anything stupid or regrettable in high school were a requirement for holding public office, only angels and saints would qualify. Still, it's a bit ironic that Mitt Romney's supporters, some of whom recently were only too happy to criticize President Barack Obama for tasting dog...
Henson verdict a disappointment
Political consultant Julius Henson deserved to be held to account for his role in producing a fraudulent robocall on the night of the 2010 gubernatorial election that was clearly designed to prevent Democrats — and in particular, African-American voters — from going to the polls. It is...
New Grand Prix deal is worse than the last
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blakesays the new organizers she has selected for September's Baltimore Grand Prix — including a member of the legendary Andretti family — "have what it takes to move forward and make this world-class sporting event successful for Baltimore." Isn't that what...
The GOP's spendthrift ways
There's a tendency among some to shorthand the ongoing federal budget debate as between Republicans who want to reduce government spending and Democrats who don't. This isn't really the case, as recent actions in the House have demonstrated.
Wegmans vs. the liquor lobby
If local pharmacists could write the regulations, Marylanders probably wouldn't ever have been allowed to get their prescriptions filled at chain stores like Walgreens and Rite-Aid. Independent video stores probably would have liked to outlaw Blockbuster, just as small bookstore owners probably...
Obama must turn his embrace of gay marriage into action
President Barack Obama's announcement that he supports gay marriage is a heartening development in the campaign for equality, and it is commendable that he made his view public before the November election rather than afterward. But he needs to do more. Gay marriage won't be the central issue in his...
Dick Lugar's warning for America
The hit men of the tea party can carve another notch in their collective gun belts this week with the ouster of Indiana Sen. Richard G. Lugar, a 35-year veteran of the U.S. Senate. Whatever mojo the conservative firebrands had in the 2010 GOP primaries, when they ousted party moderates right and...
A balanced solution
Gov. Martin O'Malley, House Speaker Michael E. Busch and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller are making the best of the embarrassing situation caused by their failure to pass a balanced budget when the legislature adjourned in April. The special legislative session due to begin on Monday will...
Europe's lesson for the GOP
The economic and political tumult in Europe has continued this week with anti-incumbent votes in France and Greece as well as signs of disaffection in Italy, Great Britain and Germany. The electorate is angry, and the election results have raised renewed concerns about whether Europe's most debt-...
Another arts district?
Any effort that promises to attract new residents and businesses to a historic Baltimore neighborhood could do a lot worse than make the arts a magnet for bringing people together. That's why we can't see any down side to a city proposal to create a third arts and entertainment district for...
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Tribute to the TV remote controlWe are gathered here today to memorialize a man who revolutionized our lives. |
The media's religion deficitEvidence of big media's bias against religion that doesn't advance the secular and liberal agenda of the Democratic Party is beyond dispute.... |
Maryland politicians' crime spreeFor the past three years, Maryland has experienced an unprecedented crime wave of political corruption. The only comparable period in memory... |
'We still have to fight. So for God's sake, fight.'The greatest commencement address ever is now more than three decades old. And it's safe to say it will never be surpassed or even equaled.... |
1812: Our first war of choiceIn this bicentennial year of the start of the War of 1812, the StarSpangledBaltimore.com website tells us: |
Rachel Marsden: Are government's 'strategic communications' coming to America?Did you hear about the new bill that would allow the U.S. government's official overseas information agency to rebroadcast its content... |
Summer: when kids learn to love the baySummer is nearly here, and during those hot-weather months, kids across the Mid-Atlantic will explore their local rivers or the Chesapeake... |
Demise of a centrist nominee dreamThat pop you may or may not have heard the other day was the bursting pipedream of a centrist presidential candidate outside the... |
