A Voice of Baltimore Tongue in Cheek Commentary   RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IS LIKE COMPETING IN THE OLYMPICS Baiting & switching not allowed FLIP-FLOPPING LIKE A JENNER   By Jay Liner   In the news these past months has been the salacious obsession ’round the world with Bruce Jenner’s sex change, including his name change […]

  TALES RANGING FROM SADNESS & DANGER TO DARK HUMOR Patuxent Fiction Editor Jen Grow explores loneliness & longing via a cast of housewives, dreamers & lost souls UNHAPPY STORIES WITH A COMMON THEME OF SWIMMING & WATER   By Bill Hughes   When the fiction editor of the highly regarded “Little Patuxent Review” launched […]

  . . . AND SETS AN OMINOUS TONE FOR WHAT THE CITY CAN EXPECT FOR HIS TERM AS GOVERNOR Dysfunctional public transportation system is holding Baltimore back REMOVAL OF CIVIL WAR FLAG FROM GOVERNMENT LOCATIONS IS AN ACTION LONG OVERDUE Network TV news execs just don’t get it   By David Maril   While […]

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  SELF-SERVING HOT-AIR PROMISES WITH FEW SPECIFICS ON HOW TO MAKE THINGS BETTER Social Security funding issue is an example of America’s failure to correct a program that is easily fixable and should be done STATESMANSHIP AND LEADERSHIP IN SHORT SUPPLY IN U.S. POLITICS   By David Maril   With local and national elections on […]