Claims of equality between the U.S. men's and women's national soccer teams are unrealistic (“Equal pay for Alex Morgan,” June 12). Soccer is a different game for men and women due primarily to physiology, history and societies. Physiology is one primary and important difference. Men are generally...
Once again the Baltimore Sun editorial staff has shown us their collective “woke-ness” with the editorial (“Equal pay for Alex Morgan,” June 12). Unfortunately for us readers, they made the decision to ignore the facts and realities of professional sports. To their credit, they did give us a few...
Baltimore City Public School students have been participating in the National Academic League for the past 26 years. NAL games are quiz show type competitions where students from across the city are asked questions about science, culture, history, and geography-subjects that aren’t always taught...
Our city government has taken a consistent attitude of “benign neglect” toward resolving the worsening squeegee kids problem that plagues our city (“Baltimore mayor working on a new plan for handling Baltimore's 'squeegee kids,'” June 12). Recent news reports and videos have shown the growing criminal...
I disagree with Stephen J. Stahley’s recent commentary in The Sun, “Clericalism will undo the Catholic Church” (June 11). He lists tawdry scandals worthy of any tabloid to support his view that clericalism has reached its perfect apogee and congealed over the centuries into a “small group of elderly,...
The definition of enabling is to ¨give (someone or something) the authority or means to do something” (“Enabling addiction doesn’t solve the problem,” June 10). So if by "enabling” letter writer George Hammerbacher is implying that we are suggesting people need to be given the authority to use...
I am as straight as the crease in George Will's slacks. It's not something I'm particularly proud of. To be clear, it's also not something of which I am ashamed. Truth be told, it's not something I've ever had to think much about, not something I've ever had to defend or deny. You might call that...
There are many addictions besides drugs, sex and power. There is also our increasing addiction to debt. According to Money Magazine, reporting on figures from the New York Fed, "Americans' debt hit a new high of $13 trillion last year, surpassing the previous record set in 2008 by $280 billion."...
Sooner or later, it was bound to happen. The Democratic contest for the party's 2020 presidential nomination has begun to pivot from the competition among self-identified progressive candidates to cutting Joe Biden's wide early lead in the polls among the 23-candidate pack. It comes after weeks...
James Holzhauer recently took “Jeopardy” by storm, setting a single-game record of more than $131,000 won and taking home more than $2.4 million in total. Mr. Holzhauer shared his strategy to prep for the show: He read children’s books he got from the public library. His 32-game winning streak...
Some years ago, I was at work casually walking down the hall toward the printer, when my colleague Lori shouts my name as I pass her office. I step back and she yells, “Monday is MLK day!” I was the only black person in the department, and the only one to get Lori’s shout-out that we would be celebrating...
It breaks no journalistic ground to report that Donald Trump lies. The 45th president lies a lot. He lies about important matters. He lies about unimportant matters. And he lies so consistently and so enthusiastically and with so little concern for reality that there’s even a term, “alternative...
If there is ever to be a true cultural shift at the Baltimore Police Department, the Fraternal Order of Police labor union needs to help, and part of that means admitting that there are bad cops. We understand that it is the group’s job to defend its members, but the union does real damage to the...
The message the University of Maryland Medical System has been trying to send in recent days is summed up in big type at the start of a news release Wednesday announcing the completion of a consultant’s report on the self-dealing scandal that has rocked the institution this year: “System embraces...
Baltimore’s zoning code is, according to city law, “for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of the community.” There is little doubt that the current effort to eliminate liquor stores in residential neighborhoods falls within that power — ample research from...
For those who live without benefit of the internet or newspapers, television and radio or simply go to great lengths to avoid human contact, especially with beings who like to discuss sporting events, take note: The U.S. women’s national team had a pretty good day on the World Cup soccer pitch...
In my career as a jet pilot, husband, father and businessman, one trait carried through the many times that things didn’t go as planned. When the plane is on fire I was taught to first assess the situation, second, take a place of action, and finally, land as soon as practical. In my business days,...
Marylanders don’t want government-run single-payer health care because it reduces access to services and eventually limits services available (“Why are we so afraid of single payer in Maryland?” June 10). Why do you think Canadians come to the U.S. for MRIs and CT scans, hip surgeries, etc.? Because...
Instead of building a wall to keep the folks out from Central America, send the $5 billion-plus to those countries through organizations like Lutheran World Relief to create jobs that will cause folks to want to stay in their countries (which is what they are already doing in El Salvador) . Bob...
Because we are living in the 21st century, here is a small change for the future: Reserve the oval in the middle of our paper money for the dollar value (“Gov. Hogan wants Tubman on the $20. He can do something much more persuasive than writing a letter,” June 11). Meanwhile, rename the John F....
As a humanities student at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, I feel a very close kinship with both Baltimore and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. I actually had a marketing internship at the BSO lined up for the summer that I was extremely excited for. Unfortunately, as many readers...
Oh, good Lord, Healthy Holly is back in the news with ex-mayor Catherine Pugh’s attorney stating she delivered all the books she sold (“Ex-Baltimore Mayor Pugh fulfilled final ‘Healthy Holly’ deal, attorney says — but unclear where the books went,” June 11). Steve Silverman proudly announced that...
I was deeply thankful that Police Commissioner Michael Harrison acted so promptly when one of his officers displayed inappropriate and uncontrolled behavior in response to quiet and reasonable comments from a passer-by (“Northwest Baltimore man at the center of the latest case of police misconduct...