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A teacher takes on another class of kindergartners, helping them with reading. Her commitment pre-dates the Freddie Gray upheaval but it answers a question: What can I do now? My city is hurting. Even as we watch the first Freddie ...

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Sheila Dixon bids now to join the long line of colorful Baltimore mayors. Apparently we like a little pizazz in City Hall. Something out of the ordinary seems to work well in mayors – even better if it comes along ...

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If Hillary Clinton were not the presumptive nominee. … If Sen. Bernie Sanders were not sucking up any leftover political oxygen. … Then Martin O’Malley might compete for his party’s presidential nomination. But, of course, Clinton is and Sanders has ...

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To the growing number of brave men and women who say they want to be mayor of Baltimore, a few suggestions:

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Deplorable conditions in Baltimore’s public housing inventory lead to a number of important questions: How can these conditions have persisted for so long? Is this the first time the city’s Mosby partnership comes under voter scrutiny? And if Mayor Stephanie ...

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He’s been a star during the interminable Benghazi hearings. He’s a major player in House of Representatives’ Democratic politics – one of its most influential and by now recognizable figures. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings represents Maryland’s Baltimore-centric 7th district, but ...

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AUSTIN, Texas – Did the modern version of dramatic mass shooting deaths begin here? Some of us remember when a deranged, former Marine sharpshooter murdered 16 people and wounded 32, firing from the clock tower at the University of Texas. ...

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Whatever else happens in this bizarre election year, Martin O’Malley will have clips of Anderson Cooper announcing him as a Democratic candidate for president of the United States. With O’Malley’s standing in the polls near zero, some had wondered if ...

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So, according to my old newspaper, the state house is Larry Hogan’s to lose. Wait.  He’s barely been in office a year and already he’s a lock for a second term? Is Maryland shifting dramatically away from its Democratic predictability? ...

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William Donald Schaefer would be shouting, “Hallelujah!” The mayor would be on the phone to Ronald J.  Daniels, president of The Johns Hopkins University, and to Ronald R. Peterson, head of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System. He’d be ...

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