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The words come out of Sarah Littlepage's mouth almost like a confession: "I've been very uninvolved." - Calvin K. Kobsa, a semi-retired Baltimore architect who was the founder of Calvin Kern Kobsa and Associates, died May 10 of complications after brain surgery at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 86.
- The Baltimore Sun Media Group announced Thursday it purchased The Capital in Annapolis, the Carroll County Times and other area publications and websites, a move that expands its journalistic footprint in Maryland.
- Those who complain about The Sun covering burlesque on Easter Sunday are missing the point
- 'Workin' the Tease' exhibit offers a look back at The Block's golden age, as well as a performance by the city's current crop of burlesque queens and kings
- 'Duck Dynasty' dust-up proves public taste seldom underestimated nor civil rights easily won
- Politics trumps problem-solving when it comes to Congressional oversight of the troubled Obamacare web site
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- MSA test is not only required by law but will provide useful information
- Jonah Goldberg asks: If you like Obamacare so much, are you prepared for what it's going to cost you?
- The Baltimore Sun Media Group is launching a paid summer internship in honor of Mary J. Corey, the first woman to lead The Baltimore Sun newsroom.
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- My colleague Candy Thomson recently reported that a study will evaluate the structural condition of the Bay Bridge.
- Welcome to Wednesday lunch at Viva House, where proprietors Willa Bickham and Brendan Walsh have served the poor and homeless without interruption since the Vietnam War.
- Brother Patrick Ellis, a Christian Brother who had served as president of La Salle University and Catholic University of America, died Feb. 21 of leukemia at a Christian Brothers nursing home in Lincroft, N.J. He was 84.
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- The headlines linking College Park shooter to Morgan State foster racism and ignorance.
- Love, loss define tales of Poe, Mencken, Fitzgeralds, Patterson, Wallis Simpson.
- As the Baltimore Ravens and Denver Broncos get ready for their big playoff game Saturday, there are plenty of opinions about how the teams and cities compare. But in one competition -- based on books -- Baltimore wins hands down.
- Arthur J. Gutman, a retired insurance broker and former H.L. Mencken Society president, died of respiratory failure Nov. 27 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The former North Baltimore resident was 101.
- Richard D. Pickens, owner of a Crofton interior design firm who lived in Union Square where he served as president of the Friends of the H.L. Mencken House, died Tuesday of stomach cancer.
- The Edgar Allan Poe house closed it doors today, which could be an ominous sign or a new beginning for the small home where the great American author spent part of his youth.
- Jonah Goldberg denounces the tendency of politicians to praise young people for being young
- John Joseph Scocca, a retired Johns Hopkins biochemistry professor recalled for his keen critical eye, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease May 10 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 72 and lived in Aberdeen.
- A reporter's life isn't so different from the days of the Sage of Baltimore.
