March 28, 2013 Comments Off on C. Fraser Smith: Judge Bothe one of a kind
Two hundred-plus friends, relatives, lawyers, judges, former law clerks and political officials crowded into Westminster Hall on Saturday afternoon to remember Judge Elsbeth Bothe, an eccentric, demanding sister of the city with as much Baltimore in her blood as the late Mayor William Donald Schaefer or John Waters, the maker of “Mondo Trasho” and other movies.
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Read More »March 21, 2013 Comments Off on C. Fraser Smith: Budgeting for a better quality of life
A drive through some Baltimore neighborhoods makes you wonder how anyone can push this city back toward livability.
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Read More »March 14, 2013 Comments Off on C. Fraser Smith: Can O’Malley stay shiny for 2016?
The last 18 months of Gov. Martin O’Malley’s life might seem like a dream.
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Read More »March 7, 2013 Comments Off on C. Fraser Smith: No fear of unknown in Anne Arundel
In retrospect, you could argue they had no choice. When the Anne Arundel County Council chose a complete unknown to succeed the fallen John Leopold, some may have thought, “There they go again.”
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Read More »February 28, 2013 Comments Off on C. Fraser Smith: Think nationally, distrust locally
Have the low ratings for Congress filtered down to the local level?
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Read More »February 21, 2013 Comments Off on C. Fraser Smith: Gov. Ruppersberger? It could happen
Maryland’s remarkable contribution to the policymaking ranks in Washington — whatever you may think of government and policymaking there — might be reduced in a few months.
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Read More »February 14, 2013 Comments Off on C. Fraser Smith: Tax cut, or a new alternative?
How long has it been since we had a discussion of public policy in which the participants were committed to a solution free of partisan considerations?
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Read More »February 7, 2013 Comments Off on C. Fraser Smith: Schaefer might have even smiled
An academic forum this week on how to make government work for the people focused on the legacy of William Donald Schaefer and, like everything else in Baltimore this week, the Ravens.
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Read More »January 31, 2013 Comments Off on C. Fraser Smith: Remembering Vernon Dobson
They were a band of brothers, intellectual, spiritual and battle-hardened. Some of them, men like the Rev. Vernon Dobson, had come down from the pulpit to join their congregations on the street.
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Read More »January 24, 2013 Comments Off on C. Fraser Smith: Unconventional Richard Ben Cramer
Richard Ben Cramer won a Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting. His magazine writing was widely admired. His book on presidential campaigns redefined the genre.
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