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Michael R. Bloomberg: “By reducing the financial barriers to these essential fields, we can free more students to pursue careers they’re passionate about -- and enable them to serve more of the families and communities who need them the most.” (File photo)
Bloomberg’s gift is remarkably generous – and needed.
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Flames surround a house in Malibu, Calif., Nov. 9, 2018. The Woolsey fire has led to the evacuation of about 75,000 homes in Southern California. (David McNew/Getty Images)
Technology is taking us places in the human spirit where we’ve never been before, where people are expressing themselves, in real time, at what they fear are the last moments of their lives.
Read MoreThe Presidential Medal of Freedom traditionally goes to those individuals whose accomplishments are so towering that they’ve become cultural icons.
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Sen. Ben Cardin, left, and Gov. Larry Hogan attend an interfaith Oneg Shabbat at the Park Heights Jewish Community Center last fall to remember the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. (Photo by Steve Ruark)
Hogan never bought into the poisonous rhetoric of President Donald Trump, and instead aimed for the middle ground, for practicalities that could be embraced by both political parties.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appears at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 1, 2018. (Ron Sachs / CNP)
The overall numbers reflect a social transition in this country that’s partly a response to President Donald Trump’s awful remarks about women, and polls indicate a huge female antipathy toward him.
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Members of the Squirrel Hill community in Pittsburgh attend a candlelight vigil to mourn those who died during the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting on Oct. 27, 2018. (Dustin Franz/AFP/Getty Images, via JTA)
Do we need a reminder that when President Donald Trump called the Pittsburgh assailant “evil,” he was using the precise term he’s used for Hillary Clinton?
Read MoreTommy the Younger is part of a remarkable family heritage. He’s Tommy the Elder’s son and Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s brother, and he was elected mayor himself in 1967, when he won 555 of the city’s polling places. This was considered quite good, since the city only had 555.
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Del. Samuel I. "Sandy" Rosenberg (D-41st) greets Jewish activists. (Courtesy of Baltimore Jewish Council)
The Preakness is part of the city of Baltimore’s DNA.
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A 2002 graduate of The Park School, Baltimore-born journalist Ben Jacobs was assaulted by then-candidate Greg Gianforte in May of 2017 while covering a special election in Montana. (Screenshot from ABC News)
“Beware the loudmouth taking advantage of the situation,” columnist Jimmy Breslin wrote, “and appealing to a crowd’s meanest nature. Such violent language sounds as if it were coming from someone who walks around with bodyguards.”
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