Our Baltimore

Baltimore is the type of place that keeps you up at night, tossing and turning while trying to figure out what can be done to save it.

Several years ago, my wife Dawn and I decided to move back to Baltimore to raise our family. Leaving my investment banking job in New York, I did not expect my friends there to understand the decision. What I also did not expect is that many of my friends in Baltimore would not understand it either.

The fact that Baltimore has suffered an extraordinary breakdown of public safety and governance over the past four years is not a “narrative” — it is reality, a reality that has caused profound pain for many hundreds and has heightened daily fear for thousands more.

BSO Music Director Marin Alsop says her experience with OrchKids is what made her fall in love with Baltimore.

We can write President Trump off as a stupid-racist all day, but we would be liars if we acted like our city also doesn’t have serious problems. I say that as a native, as a property owner, as a person who is still burying friends who were victims of gun violence, as a person whose community work in Baltimore has been documented, as a lifelong resident and a citizen who is sick and tired of seeing poor black people ignored.

We asked readers to share their versions of Baltimore in 150 words or less and were overwhelmed with images of the city that don’t often make the headlines. And all of it is Baltimore – our Baltimore.

Thousands of people have posted their Baltimore experiences on social media to counter the president’s characterization of our city as filthy and unlivable. Will you add your voice to the chorus? We’re looking for snapshots of daily life in Maryland’s largest city in 150 words or less.

The racially restrictive covenants that maintained segregation for decades in North Baltimore may be gone, but their message persists in the affluent, mostly white communities there: It’s still true that not everyone is welcomed by everyone.

Americans should be more fearful of the Senate's GOP majority stacking the impeachment trial in Trump's favor than they are of some trivial gun safety legislation in Virginia.

Proposal to tax digital ads would likely hurt businesses, depressing profits, salaries, jobs and tax revenue for Maryland.

Maryland is behind schedule in educating its citizens about the upcoming census and what to expect.

If the United States can afford an extensive system of corporate welfare, it can surely pay to keep food stamps available to those who need them.

Late PBS news anchor will be remembered fondly for his devotion to his job and its essential mission to democracy.

Low-income neighborhoods get hit hard by climate change. To address that, Congress must wean Americans off their fossil fuel diet.