Op-ed
Of the prospective GOP presidential nominees, none has yet developed the credentials to claim rightfully to be next in line.
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The beat goes on in 2014, at least when it comes to capital jazz in Annapolis provided by a program nurtured by the late Joe Byrd and, before that, by his brother Charlie Byrd. A tradition set by those two will again draw major talent to Annapolis this year for a series of jazz concerts at 49 West Café and at O'Callaghan's Hotel.
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Obituaries
George Frank Thompson, who made and served lunch to Pope John Paul II on his visit to Baltimore and who had earlier mixed drinks for five presidents as a Capitol Hill barman, died Dec. 14 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 98 and lived in the Otterbein section of the Inner Harbor.
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Op-ed
A group of kibitzers that includes mostly partisan political operatives of past campaigns sprinkled with some new purveyors of the broad and unfiltered social media led by an academic at the University of Pennsylvania, is unnecessarily messing with the presidential debate system.
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Editorial
When obstruction reaches historic proportions, Democrats had little choice but to change long-standing rules
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Op-ed
Death of Pennsylvania's Bill Scranton, who challenged Barry Goldwater in 1964, heralds the end of an era for Republicans
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Obituaries
Joseph S. Eubanks, a noted bass-baritone and Morgan State University music professor who was a member of the first American company of "Porgy and Bess" to tour the world, died May 16.
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Op-ed
Jonah Goldberg says Margaret Thatcher's embrace of free markets forced change on both her friends and her enemies
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Opinion
Jules Witcover says the political evolution of Mitt Romney is evidence of the GOP's perilous path.
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Readers Respond
When presidents became targets, vice presidents like Biden became more important
In a new lawsuit, the sons of Frank Olson seek to pry open the secrecy surrounding the government's Cold War-era research into mind-control drugs, sensory deprivation, abuse and torture to learn what happened during the predawn hours of Nov. 28, 1953, in Room 1018a of the Statler Hotel.
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Maryland
The sons of a Cold War scientist who plunged to his death in 1953 several days after unwittingly taking LSD in a CIA mind-control experiment sued the government Wednesday. They claimed the CIA murdered their father, Frank Olson, by pushing him from a 13th-story window of a hotel — not, as the CIA says, that he jumped to his death.
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Opinion
History, not an imagined rejection of capitalism, explains the president's re-election victory
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Op-ed
Mitt Romney's chameleon-like nature makes him distrusted by the full spectrum of the party that nominated him for president.
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Opinion
Mary Sanchez says affirmative action, and the high aspirations that inspired it, may be on the way out
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Op-ed
Both parties' conventions were disasters -- unless the rules of American politics have changed.
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Latest
Disgraced collector Barry H. Landau was sentenced to seven years in federal prison Wednesday for stealing thousands of historic documents worth as much as $2.5 million from archives along the East Coast, including Baltimore, where the scheme unraveled last summer.
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Op-ed
Liberals love to wax nostalgic about how the Republicans of yesteryear were so much less extreme -- and they always have.
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Readers Respond
Obama's claim as "offensive" notion of White House security leak is one for the books
Opinion
Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.: Everyone misspeaks in the heat of a campaign; issues are more important than gaffes
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Op-ed
Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.: Everyone misspeaks in the heat of a campaign; issues are more important than gaffes
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Maryland
Sitting at a table in a school cafeteria in Severna Park, Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold didn't look like a politician under siege as he spoke to residents for hours on a recent evening.
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Editorial
Mitt Romney seems destined for the Republican nomination so why aren't more in his party willing to acknowledge it?
Obituaries
Llewellyn Washington Woolford Sr., a retired Social Security Administration attorney who was a past Howard County Human Relations Commission chairman, died of stroke complications Feb. 22 at his Columbia home. He was 81.
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Obituaries
Albert A. Mrozek, a retired U.S. Department of Defense civilian executive, died Jan. 12 from complications of diabetes at Genesis Severna Park Nursing Home. He was 81.
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Six members of Boy Scout Troop 1908, all seniors at Hereford High School, all friends make Eagle Scout rank Jan. 7.
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Obituaries
Margaret Ann Ulle, an advocate for the developmentally disabled, died of an infection Saturday at Roland Park Place. She was 91.
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College Football
Midshipmen might have to resort to trickery – in their case passing –to beat SMU on Saturday in Dallas
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Op-ed
Jules Witcover notes that unlike beleaguered incumbents in the past, the president faces no challenger from within his own party
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Former congressional pages from Maryland — including some who have gone on to long careers in politics — lament the decision to end the nearly 200-year-old program this month.
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A Maryland federal grand jury indicted two New York men Thursday on charges they conspired to steal historic documents worth millions of dollars from museums in both states over a seven-month period.
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Baltimore City
Two New York City men have been charged with stealing documents from the Maryland Historical Society. One of the men arrested Saturday is Barry Landau, 63, a renowned collector of presidential artifacts.
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Betty Ford dies: Widow of President Gerald Ford was 93.
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