I am encouraged by the call of American families for healthy foods and demands for radical transparency in the food they eat. Nearly all parents now recognize the importance of healthy eating habits during childhood and their impact on behaviors in adulthood. Still, despite consumer demand to find...
Revitalization in Towson was one of my priorities — and every other local candidate’s — when I ran for the Baltimore County Council in 2010. A few years earlier, in 2006, Baltimore County had engaged a planning team to redesign downtown Towson, leading to the release of a “Walkable Towson Plan”...
President Donald Trump’s planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G-20 summit, June 28-29, has created optimism that a deal to restore normal commercial relations may be possible. However, without extensive changes in Chinese policy and law — and tough enforcement provisions — any...
Surfing conservative websites, it didn't take long to find this nugget of backward thinking, courtesy of American Thinker: "The sexual revolution that was kick-started by the advent of birth control in the early 1960s has done irreparable damage to Western civilization." If you had any doubt about...
This week marks the first anniversary of the deadliest assault against journalists in U.S. history. On June 28, 2018, a gunman opened fire at the offices of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, killing five and injuring two. We will always remember Rob Hiaasen, Wendi Winters, Gerald Fischman, John...
"The Pentagon has released new color photos as proof that Iran was behind last week's attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman," ABC News reported. Hours before that attack, Iranians launched surface-to-air missile at a U.S. drone monitoring the tankers. The missile missed. In response, 1,000...
Beginning Wednesday night, 20 of the Democratic contenders for president square off in what will likely prove the most unwieldy debate in modern American history. The sheer number of candidates added to a 10-by-10 format — 10 candidates debate Wednesday and 10 others on Thursday — have virtually...
Does getting the best grades in your high school class guarantee future success? Is it the most important measure of a young person’s development? Does the difference of a few hundredths of a percentage point between two students’ GPAs even tell you much about which one is smarter? Probably not....
To catch Richard Stephen Barnes, the man charged with impersonating an officer and raping a woman this month in Baltimore, police pulled more than 100 patrol cars from service to see if any matched the woman’s description. They called for assistance from the department’s license plate reader unit...
This month, the American Medical Association (AMA) invested $15 million in eight ambitious programs to address the workplace needs of our current health system. Among the goals of this grant was to address the crisis of burnout among training physicians by investing in wellness innovations. In...
Why all the talk? Why all the debate? Why all the angst? The case is clear. He deserves to be impeached. So don't wait any longer. Rev up the engines. Start the hearings. Impeach him -- now! No, I'm not talking about President Donald Trump (not yet!). I'm talking about Attorney General William...
Donald Trump has been ramping up his "Deep State" rhetoric again. He's back to blaming a cabal of bureaucrats, FBI and CIA agents, Democrats and "enemies of the people" in the mainstream media for conspiring to remove him from office in order to allow the denizens of foreign "s***holes" to overrun...
As we near the 2019 Democratic debates, I clearly remember one January 2008 Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire — the site of the headline making exchange between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. To re-cap, the debate moderator asked Ms. Clinton whether she thought she had enough personal...
By now, policymakers have surely heard about the opioid crisis that has gripped the nation since at least 2010. In 2017, more than 47,000 Americans lost their lives to opioids. While China has to this point been the predominate exporter of opioids to the U.S., the market is changing. Officials...
If the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has its way, a new federal poverty calculation will underestimate the number of families — and children — living in poverty even more than it does today. OMB’s Directive Number 14, “Consumer Inflation Measures,” will slow the rate of inflation adjustment...
Baltimore has the potential to emerge as one of the most dynamic innovation hubs in the country, if we can take some important steps for growth. Our city is home to people with incredible drive and talent. And we have strong institutions, from colleges and universities to federal agencies, hospitals...
The “open” letter recently sent to members of Lodge 3 of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) by FOP president Mike Mancuso criticizing Baltimore police commissioner Michael Harrison was a bad idea. The last thing that Baltimore needs right now is the FOP leader picking a public fight with the police...
These days, the question isn’t whether we should build green, but rather: Why wouldn’t we build green? Green buildings are not only more efficient, saving taxpayer dollars in energy and water costs, they also provide healthier environments for occupants. And let’s face it — when we spend 90% of...
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s current leadership, guided by board chair Barbara Bozzuto, has chosen to make decisions that are causing unnecessary damage to the institution, including locking musicians out of Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on Monday, meaning players will be without salaries and health...
By virtue of the separate decisions of Donald Trump and Joe Biden to cast the approaching 2020 campaign as a bitter showdown between them, it already is reducing the large field of Democratic candidates to a premature sideshow. When Messrs. Trump and Biden went to Iowa last Tuesday and exchanged...
In comic books, a key to a compelling superpower is its limitations. Magneto can manipulate metal but only metal. Superman has problems with magic, red suns and kryptonite. The limitations drive the drama. In politics, Donald Trump has a couple of superpowers. Shamelessness is one. He's willing...