Gov. Larry Hogan Bucks GOP Trend and Speaks the Truth about Trump
This article is republished with permission from JMORE. When people talk about the simple courage to tell the truth during
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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
Freddie Gray’s Death Five Years Ago Was Not the Sole Reason Behind Baltimore’s Riots
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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Still Too Dangerous for America to Re-Open for Business
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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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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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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