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Dan Rodricks: Drop the gun and nobody gets hurt | COMMENTARY

Tall order: Convincing more Americans that owning a gun is not worth the risks it automatically creates.

Dan Rodricks: A new Maryland library testifies to our eternal fascination with horses | COMMENTARY

Stacks of books, old and new, about all aspects of horse ownership, breeding, training and care.

Dan Rodricks: Billy Zinkhan and the joy of helping others | COMMENTARY

The 50-year-old, who died in a shed fire April 3, had memorable personality and an energetic instinct for helping others.

Dan Rodricks: Frederick’s Sheriff Jenkins and the adolescent obsession with high-powered guns | COMMENTARY

Jenkins facing indictment for helping secure guns for The Machine Gun Nest.

Dan Rodricks: Props to Dems for fighting the good fight, but we are surrounded by guns | COMMENTARY

Warning: More Marylanders than ever can wear and carry guns.

Michelle Deal-Zimmerman: Why first lady Jill Biden can’t see Angel Reese and her LSU teammates | COMMENTARY

There is a cultural chasm separating Black women and white women, and the first lady recently fell into it.

Dan Rodricks: A giant step for Tony, with the help of a good therapist and a bionic knee | COMMENTARY

A high-tech prosthetic restores leg power to a 77-year-old amputee.

Dan Rodricks: For Baltimore Catholics, dark history and a shattering sense of betrayal | COMMENTARY

In part of the cover-up, problem priests once came to Baltimore for psychiatric help.

Dan Rodricks: Those mysterious Roy McGrath books become his epitaph | COMMENTARY

Promising “the true story of Roy McGrath,” the books might provide the best insight into the former Maryland official’s state of mind.

Dan Rodricks: Hey, Roy McGrath, if you can read this, give yourself up! | COMMENTARY

Former Maryland official Roy McGrath, a federal fugitive, should state his case in court, not in books.

Dan Rodricks: Speed cams, Trump, Lamar, Angelos and two other comments nobody asked for | COMMENTARY

The Ravens QB should have an agent. The Orioles CEO should not make promises he can't keep.

Dan Rodricks: You can catch the sounds of a bygone Baltimore in jazz recordings from the Famous Ballroom | COMMENTARY

Brilliant musical moments from the 1960s and 1970s, captured on tape, now on vinyl.

Dan Rodricks: Renowned scientist Robert Gallo takes on emeritus role at Baltimore’s Institute of Human Virology | COMMENTARY

“I’m ... ready for another phase," says Gallo, who co-discovered HIV as the cause of AIDS and is a celebrated cancer researcher.

Peter Jensen: Recalling Spiro Agnew in the Trump era — and when the law mattered even to politicians | COMMENTARY

All the talk about how unprecedented it would be to indict an ex-president fails to recall when it was considered entirely appropriate to prosecute a sitting vice-president.

Dan Rodricks: Baltimore Beltway crash offers a hard life lesson on the randomness and unfairness of death | COMMENTARY

Reflecting on the Beltway crash that killed six workers in an instant.

Dan Rodricks: Chesapeake blue catfish — if you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em | COMMENTARY

For the sake of the Chesapeake’s fragile ecology and our regional seafood industry, let's put blue catfish on our dinner plates.

Dan Rodricks: In Harford County, a battle between e-commerce and green space | COMMENTARY

'I moved here 20 years ago, and I didn’t move here for the warehouses.'

Dan Rodricks: Why not recruit the ‘weird rodent’ to help the Chesapeake Bay? | COMMENTARY

Let beavers do their thing, and we'll see ponds instead of ditches.

Michelle Deal-Zimmerman: COVID marks 3-year anniversary. But as some celebrate, others calibrate. | COMMENTARY

It was three years ago that Baltimore announced its first coronavirus case in the COVID-19 pandemic on March 14. Since then many in Maryland have moved on. But the virus hasn’t.

Dan Rodricks: Maryland starting to see fewer deaths of despair | COMMENTARY

News we missed: The number of drug overdose deaths dropped in the state last year.

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