City Hall: a soap opera in many acts

June 29, 2008

Did she violate the public trust, or is she damned by pricey shoes?

Recent columns

• Many share Russert's devotion to the craft

  June 22, 2008

  He was an unlikely media star, a rumpled, Columbo-like character out of The Front Page. That appearance made him a throwback in the unsettling transition from print to electronic to cyber communication.

• Promising too much brings political perils

  June 15, 2008

  Steven B. Larsen turned out to be a double-edged political sword.

• Ex-governors guaranteed a portrait — nothing more

  June 8, 2008

  Gov. Martin O'Malley sat in the audience last week as the portrait of his once and perhaps future adversary, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., was unveiled.

• On 'alcopops' bill, O'Malley's ideals succumb to politics

  June 1, 2008

  Maybe it's just a different slant on the same old problem, but governing responsibly - and staying in office - seems ever more challenging.

• Fall election is shaping up as historic test

  May 25, 2008

  They gave us the bullet to save themselves; they will give us the ballot to save themselves.

• Miller backs away from backing away; what's next?

  May 18, 2008

  He's the kingfish, the really powerful leader among all those legislators who are said by reporters to be "powerful."

• Slots offer only false promises, hardship

  May 11, 2008

  Here's a question related to the never-ending saga of Democrats trying to nominate a candidate for president. It's a question about the never-ending saga of slots:

• City leaders seem ready to lead

  May 4, 2008

  Beyond the dismal graduation rate, attacks on teachers, gangs invading funerals in church and an array of other social pathologies, some see extraordinary opportunity for Baltimore.

• In the danger zone

  April 27, 2008

  There was something unsettling in the air last Monday at Unity United Methodist Church. It was disturbing for the Rev. Napoleon Rush, not because it was new but because he had seen it before.

• In the danger zone

  April 27, 2008

  There was something unsettling in the air last Monday at Unity United Methodist Church. It was disturbing for the Rev. Napoleon Rush, not because it was new but because he had seen it before.

• It's Democrat vs. Democrat in latest slots fight

  April 20, 2008

  And so it begins, the 2008 version of preparing to elect a Republican governor in a liberal, Democratic state.

• It's Democrat vs. Democrat in latest slots fight

  April 20, 2008

  And so it begins, the 2008 version of preparing to elect a Republican governor in a liberal, Democratic state.

• It's Democrat vs. Democrat in latest slots fight

  April 20, 2008

  And so it begins, the 2008 version of preparing to elect a Republican governor in a liberal, Democratic state.

• It's Democrat vs. Democrat in latest slots fight

  April 20, 2008

  And so it begins, the 2008 version of preparing to elect a Republican governor in a liberal, Democratic state.

• In Annapolis, you can have your cake and compute it too

  April 13, 2008

  At the end of a legislative session, every bill is connected to every other bill. - Anonymous

• Jim Crow just the way it was

  April 6, 2008

  While researching my civil rights book, I gave a brief work-in-progress talk at a woman's club in Baltimore. A member of the audience came up to me afterward to make this observation about the task I was beginning to confront: "You'll never get the ambience of those days."