Al Kaline was the Hometown Kid who Got Away
BALTIMORE – On a raw October afternoon in 1991, on the last day they would ever play a baseball game
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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.
Author: Michael Olesker
National Press Giving Trump a Free Pass
BALTIMORE – From the beginning, Donald Trump has understood the sheer theatricality of the American presidency better than anybody. After
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Jesus Weeps as Trump Uses Faith for Political Gain
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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America needs a new kind of Peace Corps to save the overburdened hospitals dealing with coronavirus patients
BALTIMORE – When he was Baltimore County executive from 1974 to 1978 B.C. (Before Coronavirus), Ted Venetoulis brought a Kennedyesque
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Fox shouldn’t stop at banishing Trish Regan: What about the others?
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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Schumer’s emotions get the best of him
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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Trump playing politics with coronavirus
BALTIMORE – Billions around the planet may tremble over the coronavirus, but President Donald Trump says he’ll get us through
Read moreDemocrat Debate: Who cares if you know the name of Mexico’s president when people are getting shot and the earth is dying
BALTIMORE – I’m eating lunch with four smart guys, men of accomplishment, men with impressive college diplomas earned decades ago,
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Trump to Veterans: Traumatic brain injuries are like ‘headaches’ – ‘not very serious injuries’
BALTIMORE — Three years into this ulcerous presidency, it’s become clear Donald Trump wouldn’t know the difference between a headache
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