The D’Alesandro family, a political dynasty with two former Baltimore mayors and the first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives to its name, rose from a small house on Albemarle Street in Little Italy.
Thomas D’Alesandro III, a former Baltimore mayor affectionately known as “Young Tommy” and brother of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, died at his North Baltimore home Sunday of stroke complications.
The sudden death of Democrat U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings ― a venerated figure who mentored a younger generation of public servants ― leaves many lawmakers, even while mourning, facing a tough decision.
The body of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Baltimore Democrat and committee chairman who died Thursday, will lie in state in National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol next week, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young said Friday he will move to rename the Courthouse East building in downtown Baltimore after the late U.S. Elijah E. Cummings.
The siblings of U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Baltimore weren’t surprised by their brother’s rise to political prominence, always feeling he was destined for something big.
Despite demolition crews working at an unprecedented pace in recent months to tear down Baltimore’s vacant houses, the number of abandoned buildings in the city has barely budged.
Not only for a generation of legislators and politicians in Maryland and throughout the halls of Congress, but for an army of young men and women with aspirations to change Baltimore or reach beyond it, Elijah Cummings, 68, was a titan.
The late congressman Elijah Cummings often spoke of teachers and other mentors he encountered growing up in South Baltimore. But help was not a one-way street.
The late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings tangled repeatedly with President Donald Trump over the past few years. Here are some of the memorable exchanges between the Democratic congressman from Baltimore and the Republican developer who became president.
U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings practiced his faith the same way he practiced his politics, according to his pastor: Steadfastly and always in the front row.
Snowballs. The chicken box. Lake trout. Some of Baltimore’s most identifiable foods come in containers made from polystyrene foam, known colloquially as styrofoam. So what will happen Saturday, when the white stuff is officially banned in city limits?
