A little bit of everything
Les Cohen is a long-term Marylander, having grown up in Annapolis. Professionally, he writes and edits materials for business and political clients from his base of operations in Columbia, Maryland. He has a Ph.D. in Economics.
My argument was that inflation in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a composite of what’s happening in various inter-related, but still very different markets for products and services in various locales around the country.
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Covid-19 was the original excuse, but not anymore. The pandemic that is still lingering may have left us with no choice, but then people got used to the many other advantages of working at home. The result is transformational and is, if the trend continues, threatening to re-weave the fabric of our economy.
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The nickname, “Charm City,” isn’t exactly how Baltimore is viewed by many across our nation. That’s too bad. While the title of this piece may be slightly over-stated, the fact is that Baltimore makes the top 5 in every list of the nation’s most dangerous cities, depending upon which definition of violent crime the authors may have used.
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If only I was BB King. Unfortunately, while I could probably come up with a really cool name for my guitar, if I had one, I couldn’t play it. Or sing. …Now you know why I write for a living.
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Without even a hint of hyperbole, we are – every mother’s son and daughter of us – in the midst
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Yes, we’ve all noticed. There’s a disturbance in The Force. Some call it “The Great Resignation,” but it’s much more complicated than that. The output of our economy is down and yet unemployment is less than 4% which is effectively “full employment” given that there are always people out of work for benign reasons.
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That’s Republican Dan Cox on the left and Democrat Wes Moore on the right. Mr. Cox and Mr. Moore will be running against each other for Governor in November’s General Election.
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Baltimore was my father’s city. It’s where he grew up, worked at his mother’s small neighborhood diner and went to
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So, as a result of the Trump era appointments to the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade is no more. The five to four vote was not an academic one, independent of the religious beliefs and political involvements of the Justices. It was, flat out for the five justices who voted Roe down, a personal statement.
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To say that the city of Baltimore is in trouble is not exactly breaking news. It’s a long-term reality, a
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