BALTIMORE – Harry Hughes, who died Wednesday, at 92, became governor of Maryland when the Free State seemed to lead the country in political corruption, and he set an

BALTIMORE – Years ago, doing some reporting on Maryland’s prisons, I spent enough time at the state penitentiary to ask a rather personal question of an inmate there known

BALTIMORE – Elijah Cummings believes in America in spite of an America he’s known his whole life. The Democratic congressman out of undernourished West Baltimore told the whole country

BALTIMORE – Scariest among the reasons President Donald Trump has offered for building his Great Wall along the U.S. southern border is his insistence that it will stop narcotics

Frank Robinson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.  (Wikipedia) BALTIMORE – As one measure of American enlightenment on race, here we are, 44 years after Frank Robinson became the

BALTIMORE – The last time State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby fought with the Baltimore Police Department, a big piece of this city was on fire. This time, the fight’s only

BALTIMORE – To millions of voters all over America, Larry Hogan is best known as Larry Who? For the uninitiated, he’s the governor of Maryland. But, just for speculation,

BALTIMORE – The last time Rep. Elijah Cummings found himself in the midst of an investigation into the private life of an American president, he was on the other

BALTIMORE – Everybody across America thinks they know the origin of Nancy Pelosi’s politics, but everybody’s wrong. They call her a San Francisco liberal, as though geography alone determines