A little bit of everything
Michael Olesker, columnist for the News American, Baltimore Sun, and Baltimore Examiner has spent a quarter of a century writing about the city he loves.He is the author of several books, including Michael Olesker’s Baltimore: If You Live Here, You’re Home, Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore, and The Colts’ Baltimore: A City and Its Love Affair in the 1950s, all published by Johns Hopkins Press.
In our time of enforced isolation, we’re as quiet here as any American city, and maybe more reflective. It’s the five-year anniversary of the death of Freddie Gray and the street violence that followed.
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As the coronavirus death toll reaches about 40,000 around the country, this is still a dangerous time for America to “re-open,” and a dangerous time for this president to urge crowded street demonstrations.
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BALTIMORE – On a raw October afternoon in 1991, on the last day they would ever play a baseball game
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BALTIMORE – From the beginning, Donald Trump has understood the sheer theatricality of the American presidency better than anybody. After
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BALTIMORE – God himself must have winced this week at the naked hypocrisy of President Donald J. Trump, this amoral
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In our time of national anxiety, Larry Hogan shows it’s possible to be a mentsch as well as a politician
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BALTIMORE – When he was Baltimore County executive from 1974 to 1978 B.C. (Before Coronavirus), Ted Venetoulis brought a Kennedyesque
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BALTIMORE — Now that 49 states have been hit by the coronavirus, and the number of U.S. infections tops 2,700,
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BALTIMORE – In this little business of New York Senator Chuck Schumer bad-mouthing members of the U.S. Supreme Court the
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BALTIMORE – Billions around the planet may tremble over the coronavirus, but President Donald Trump says he’ll get us through
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