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Baltimore Mayor Jack Young leads all candidates in campaign donations, with strong support from businesses. But, given the pace of violent crime, Young will face a fed-up, tired and traumatized electorate in April's Democratic primary.
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Starting next year Baltimore retailers will be prohibited from issuing plastic bags for groceries or other purchases, so now is a good time to practice living a less plastic life. Here are some suggestions.
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Baltimore is beset with problems and low expectations, but the Ravens' run to the playoffs reminded us that excellent is still pursued here, and still possible.
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Her brother was murdered in Baltimore when Becky Feldman was in law school. That might have inspired her to be a prosecutor of criminals. Instead, she defends them.
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Another in a series of columns on what candidates for mayor would do about Baltimore's deplorable level of violence.
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Among several resolutions for 2020, Dan Rodricks plans to plant trees to help the environment and encourages readers to do the same. He declares a few other resolutions, for himself and others, as he mark his 41st year as a Sun columnist.
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Federal, state and city law enforcement need to deal with ex-offenders directly with a return to the "call-in" program that helped stem violence in Baltimore between 2006 and 2012.
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A priest and his parishioners from Anne Arundel County help a Baltimore couple out of homelessness as they begin to rebuild their lives.
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Our columnist resorts to topical rhyme to mark the holiday and the march of time.
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On the last, darkest days of another rough year for Baltimore, the search for bright lights and signs of hope.
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Sheila Dixon, Baltimore's former mayor, is looking to make a comeback.
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As the holidays approach, our columnist offers a few suggestions for small acts of charity and good deeds that come with very little cost and big reward.
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The Rev. William J. Watters, the Jesuit priest who founded Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy and two other schools, wants to open an elementary school for children from low-income Baltimore families. He needs about $5 million. He should be able to get it -- theoretically.
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Conspiracy theories abound, and truth takes a beating in the age of social media and the Trump presidency.
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As income inequality reaches a record level, the Trump administration wants to remove food benefits from single adults who struggle to find steady work, about 30,000 of them in Maryland.
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Following up on columns about vacant rowhouses and immigrants, as well as November's Roughly Speaking podcast on movies.
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In granting parole to offenders serving life terms in Maryland prisons, Gov. Larry Hogan starts to restore fairness to a system in need of reform.
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Our news columnist's annual Thanksgiving Eve column, expressing gratitude for things great and small.
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Another in a series of columns on candidates for mayor of Baltimore and what they would do to end the city's violent crime crisis.
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This is the third in a series of columns on mayoral candidates and their ideas about stemming the shootings that have made Baltimore one of the most violent cities in the country.
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The second in a series of columns on candidates for mayor of Baltimore in 2020 and their approaches to reducing the city's high rate of homicides and shootings.
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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."
