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In which our columnist lists some of the unique traits and traditions that make a Baltimorean a Baltimorean
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s its second annual conference approaches this weekend, the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project gathers steam in 14 counties as volunteers come forward to acknowledge and remember the victims of more than 40 racial murders.
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Former Maryland deputy attorney general and city prosecutor says he will not seek re-election as mayor if he can't get Baltimore's annual homicides below 200. "I intend to be held accountable by my own goals.”
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Another one of those 'Nobody asked me, but' columns in which our columnist, without prompting, gives his thoughts about many things, including a Michael Bloomberg presidential run and the self-checkouts at the supermarket.
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A new apartment building near Coppin State University puts a new face on North Avenue and could set the stage for more investment in a federally-designated 'opportunity zone'
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At 85, Arthur Biddle is the state's longest-serving inmate, with 65 years in prison. But he's not Maryland's oldest prisoner. Samuel Neal is 88. A new study questions the value of keeping elderly inmates locked up for so long.
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The sight of four vacant rowhouses in West Baltimore gives rise to some thoughts about the city's past and some ideas about rebuilding its population in the next two decades.
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Dan Rodricks: With the help of mentors, these Baltimore squeegee boys are moving into a new business
A group of mentors associated with the Maryland Institute College of Art have helped a small group of Baltimore squeegee boys develop their own brand of bottled water for the wholesale market, eventually taking them off the street and away from the hard hustle of the squeegee.
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As Baltimore mothers like Angela Royster mourn their sons during another year of depressing violence, it's hard to see that the city is "on the cusp of a renaissance."
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White House aide Mulvaney's statement that Donald Trump still considers himself to be in the hospitality business would seem to bolster Maryland's emoluments lawsuit against the president.
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Richard Nast, known as Nasty and born 72 years ago on Halloween, is a nightmare for people who post illegal signs along Baltimore County roads. He's the county's leading confiscator of prohibited signs.
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In the years before he became mayor of Baltimore, Thomas “Young Tommy” D’Alesandro III was an early supporter of civil rights and racial equality, and his courageous example is valuable to political leaders 50 years on.
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When it comes to Syria and Ukraine, President Trump has done nothing wrong, says Maryland's lone Republican congressman.
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With death of Cummings, Baltimore and the nation lose a big, passionate voice, a man who kept insisting, 'We are better than this.'
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The absurd claims of a coup against President Trump follow decades of right-wing denigration of the federal government and dark conspiracy theories about a 'deep state'
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The Maryland governor has had no comment about the hailed-as-historic plan to improve Pimlico and Laurel while keeping the Preakness in Baltimore.
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Dennis Royster Jr. baked and sold cookies and cakes all through high school to save enough money to establish his own corner carryout, Hey Daddy's, in southwest Baltimore.
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Against a grim outlook and low expectations, the plan to keep the Preakness at Pimlico comes as a shock to Baltimoreans who came to see its loss as inevitable.
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Arrested for attempted murder in Baltimore several times, but never convicted, David Warren pleads guilty in Baltimore County Circuit Court.
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A ride-along with Michael Seipp, executive director of the Southwest Partnership, a coalition of seven neighborhoods fighting blight and looking for new possibilities in old buildings.
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In Maryland, even inmates with a credible claim of innocence can spend years waiting for a resolution of their cases. It looks like Mark Grant never will.
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Could a billionaire-backed property tax cut spur new investment and spur population growth in long-struggling Baltimore?
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Jack & Zach Food, a 12-seat diner that opened in downtown Baltimore eight years ago with a menu of all homemade dishes from locally-grown products, will close in November.
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On the 157th anniversary of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, Americans gather for a sunrise tour of Antietam National Battlefield.
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While the Department of Defense sees climate change as an immediate threat to national security, Rep. Andy Harris opposes an Ocean City wind farm being developed to slow the climate crisis.
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The Supreme Court, in allowing the Trump administration to institute a harsh rule that will render thousands of traumatized people ineligible for asylum here, effectively cut our lineage to the Greatest Generation.
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The presidential side-show during and after Hurricane Dorian points up Trump's scorn for, and his willingness to abuse, a federal agency that for more than a century served the nation free of political considerations.
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An under-appreciated trail named for former Sen. Paul Sarbanes offers a pleasant hike to the Potomac North Branch, and a challenge coming back.
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Rodricks Sunday column: Nobody asked our columnist about marble steps, the Orioles, the Chesapeake bridges or guns at BWI, but here he goes again.
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People often wonder what they can personally do about climate change because it seems like such a huge, beyond-our-control problem. Imagine if we turned lawns into little forests.
