linda brown

At Chick and Ruth's Delly in Annapolis, where politicians' favorite meals are named for them and listed in large print signs above the counter, a diner can order a "John R. Leopold" — chicken noodle soup.

Twenty years after Thurgood Marshall's massive disparities continue between blacks and whites

Carney neighborhood column by Sylvia Rogers

What makes a great workplace? A bit of Old Fezziwig. That's a reference to one of the characters from Dickens' novella, A Christmas Carol — the corpulent, jolly man who ran the London business where Ebenezer Scrooge apprenticed. Fezziwig threw the original office party, and he invited everyone to celebrate the holiday.

At Triadelphia Lake View farm, the pumpkin crop is down 60 percent after 13 record-setting inches of rain in September, on top of the deluges that fell in August. Hay has issues, too.