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 […]

  NEVER HAVE SO MANY LIGHTWEIGHTS DECIDED IN A SINGLE ELECTION TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT If Hillary Clinton occupies the White House, will she ever hold a press conference? REASONABLY PRICED MARC TRAIN SERVICE BETWEEN BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON IS EFFICIENT, AND GAINING POPULARITY   By David Maril   While wondering if a White House with […]

  A Voice of Baltimore Feature, an excerpt from ROOBY TAWR, a novel in progress set in mid-20th Century Charm City By Joel Foreman In the months before the U.S. entry into WWI, Reuben Michael’s old man decided the teenager had enough schooling and apprenticed him to a German-American plumber named Max Rudiger. It didn’t […]

  Margo Christie, first-time author of the semi-autobiographical novel These Days: A Tale of Nostalgia on a Burlesque Strip, grew up performing on Baltimore’s once-famous “Block” before moving in 1999 to Denver, where she recently got married, and is now moving again, this time to Tampa.  She reviews for Voice of Baltimore first-time novelist Nickolas […]

  ESCAPE FROM REALITY, AND VACATION WIN OUT OVER HONORING SACRIFICES MADE BY THOSE IN THE U.S. MILITARY Hollywood offers one of strongest remaining links to recognition of America’s war heroes MEMORIAL DAY SALES ABOUND   By David Maril   It’s easy to lose sight of what we are commemorating on Memorial Day weekend. With […]