Americans have grown numb to tales of political crimes as the US Supreme Court moves at a snail’s pace
BALTIMORE – People around here used to boast, sarcastically, that we led the league in political corruption. After all, we
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Michael Olesker
Remembering Graduation
But I’ve made up for a single graduation absence by showing up for more than a dozen others – glad occasions where various schools, high school, and college, invited me to be their commencement speaker, in that extended era when I was writing nightly TV commentaries and thrice-weekly newspaper columns.
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O.J. Simpson’s Verdict Showed us the Distance in America’s Racial Divide
The verdict that acquitted O.J. Simpson of murdering two people, one of whom was his wife, painfully revealed the lingering American racial divide as we’d rarely seen it before.
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Peter Angelos’ hometown loyalty should not be forgotten
Peter Angelos goes to his grave, at 94, as the most vilified guy in town. The man who owned the Baltimore Orioles for three decades should have been a hero around here, but he couldn’t get out of his own way.
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Carroll County Public School System bows to Moms for Liberty and bans books on sex
BALTIMORE – The great thinkers in the Carroll County public school system believe they’re doing their students a favor. The
Read moreOrioles stadium issues bring back memories of the Mayflower vans moving the Colts
We’re sensitive souls around here. We don’t like it when people in power fail to tell us the whole truth. We saw it happen precisely 40 years ago this week with our pro football team, and now a few questions linger about our baseball team.
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game Soon
The first time my father took me to a major league baseball game, at the old Memorial Stadium on 33rd Street, I thought I was entering a kind of holy place.
Read moreStop Fighting the Civil War and Start by Tearing down the Confederate Flags and Statues
The South lost that war but got to keep all its flags, which sympathizers wave about as if taunting the winners, declaring, “Hey, we’re still here.” And they built statutes to those turncoats who tried to tear America apart.
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Inspirational: Blacks and Whites Protesting Together Against Racial Injustice
They’re saying what our better angels have been saying for years: America wasn’t created to “dominate” one another, but to learn from each other, and to find each other’s better selves, whatever we happen to look like.
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George Floyd’s Brutal Murder: Racism is Tearing America Apart
As pieces of America burn, this city instinctively winces. This time the anger follows a Minneapolis man named George Floyd, murdered in front of everyone’s eyes. But here we still remember five years ago and the televised rage and rioting that followed the death of Freddie Gray.
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