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BALTIMORE – This city has come to a crossroads in its history, and not only because a new mayor has arrived with the old one disgraced and forced from

BALTIMORE —  The most nervous people in town right now should be the enablers of Mayor Catherine Pugh. The FBI and the IRS are pursuing the mayor, raiding two Pugh

BALTIMORE – In the fiery aftermath of last week’s Mueller report release, we see every gaping canyon in the American political divide. You want to see conflict of analysis?

Mayor Catherine Pugh (Photo by Mike Jordan) BALTIMORE  – This city, feeling pretty crummy with each new revelation about Mayor Catherine Pugh, attempted the other evening to console itself by

BALTIMORE – Around here, four wins in the first week of the brand new Orioles season lets everybody dream a little. After last year’s disgrace, some of us are

BALTIMORE —  For a generation of disillusioned fans, the date which will live in football infamy was precisely 35 years ago. John Ziemann knows it well. But, across America,

BALTIMORE – As everybody knows, we Americans have no attention spans whatsoever. Our national attention span was sawed off by years of TV news relentlessly giving us 15-second stories,

BALTIMORE — Among my best friends in high school was Mansfield (Sonny) Newsom, who sat directly in front of me for three years by dint of alphabetical order. I