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As Baltimore County executive, Kevin Kamenetz introduced a local version of the College Promise Movement. As a Democratic gubernatorial candidate, he knows a good attention-grabber when he sees it.
Read MoreThey do things differently at UMBC, and that’s what makes their basketball victory such cause for celebration.
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The "private office" of Daniel Brozowsky, aka "Nookie the Bookie," was reportedly a sidewalk phone booth around Hayward and Park Heights avenues, near Pimlico Race Course.
In 1979, sitting atop the great Spectacular Bid, Ronnie Franklin won the Kentucky Derby.
Read MoreThe lie about steel’s instant recovery is troubling because it implies huge numbers of jobs are coming back, and chances are they are not.
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In the current climate, how long can any newspaper keep its sports section alive, asks Michael Olesker.
Local disc jockey Bob Rivers vowed to stay on the air until the Orioles won. He figured, “How long could it last?”
Read MoreOn May 6, 1954, when some of us were alive and still young enough to be stirred by sports records, Roger Bannister set an athletic mark comparable to Babe Ruth’s 60 home runs in baseball. He ran a mile in 3:59.4.
Read MoreRaised on Lower Park Heights and graduated in 1943 from Forest Park High School, Jack Gale scrounged around a few smaller broadcast markets before landing at WITH in his home town in 1957.
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The New England Jewish Labor Committee helped spread the word about a rally in Boston in support of DACA, Sept. 5, 2017. (Marion Davis/Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition)
The stigmatizing of The Other is with us always.
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Students are shown leaving Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., after a shooting there on Feb. 14, 2018. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Michael Olesker responds to Donald Trump’s plan to arm teachers and how the country’s attitudes on gun control are changing in the aftermath of the Florida shooting.
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In this 1981 photo, the late Rev. Billy Graham (left) is shown greeting First Lady Nancy Reagan and President Ronald Reagan at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton Hotel. (Wikipedia)
Billy Graham — who was a great champion of Israel — crossed both political party lines, all Protestant lines, and racial lines, too, when much of America still wrestled with ancient divisions.
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Students are shown leaving Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., after a shooting there on Feb. 14, 2018. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Does last week’s killing not fit the very definition of carnage? If we can’t take every possible step to protect our own children in their schools, what kind of people are we?
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