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The Baltimore Sun's former headquarters in South Baltimore's Port Covington neighborhood. (File photo)
In the ’50s, The Baltimore Sun was so central to the life of Baltimore that its location was known as Sun Square, and its reason for moving was implicitly triumphant. They needed larger quarters, and they needed quicker highway outlets.
Read MoreSome of us imagined we’d have the pleasure of watching Machado and Schoop play their entire careers here. It doesn’t happen often in modern baseball, but these guys aren’t ordinary players.
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An aerial view of Baltimore City College, where Michael Olesker was a member of the class of June 1963. (Wikipedia)
Jerry Levin and his colleagues embraced the books. They understood the need for their kids to connect with a modern character. And here was a scarred, confused adolescent voice so familiar that it mirrored our own. Reading was no longer a chore, but a passion.
Read MoreIf you’re Democrat Ben Jealous, and you’re running for governor of Maryland, you take heart knowing this is one of America’s bluest states, one that votes Democratic almost always, no matter the electoral patterns in the rest of the country.
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The Baltimore Sun's former home of 68 years at 501 N.. Calvert Street (Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons)
It’s a sad story, and it’s happening all over America, as witness this week’s pulverizing of the Daily News.
Read MoreAltogether, more than a dozen Jews have donned the Orioles uniform over the club’s 64-year history.
Read MoreYou hear it all the time now – people who pronounce themselves afraid to go downtown. Of course, these are usually people who haven’t been downtown in years anyway.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 economic summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Only Trump withholds validation. He continues to call the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller “a witch hunt.”
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The view of several empty seats at Oriole Park at Camden Yards during a July, 2018, home game. (Photo by Amanda Krotki, Jmore)
The Orioles now rank 23rd in attendance among all Major League Baseball teams. In their first 42 home games, they’ve drawn 874,218 living souls – at least, according to “official” count.
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Released in 1945, “The House I Live In” starred Frank Sinatra and won an honorary Academy Award. In 2007, it was selected for preservation by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” (Photo Wikipedia)
You want to celebrate America’s 242nd birthday with a little more patriotic gesture than a Fourth of July mattress sale? Hike yourself over to YouTube and type in “Frank Sinatra: The House I Live In.”
Read MoreFive dead in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, and a Sunday editorial in the paper laments an aftermath that includes “death threats and emails from people we don’t know celebrating our loss.”
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