A Voice of Baltimore Feature, an excerpt from      ROOBY TAWR, a novel in progress      set in mid-20th Century Charm City                                By Joel Foreman   It’s 1930. A crowd with drowsy early morning faces waits at a trolley stop in Northwest Baltimore a mile or two south of Park Circle. One of the faces […]

  FILLING STATIONS EVERYWHERE ARE NOW ‘SELF-SERVICE’ AND ATTENDANTS HAVE BECOME VIRTUALLY OBSOLETE Who would have ever figured everyone, except chauffeured elected officials, would be pumping their own gas?   By David Maril   As gasoline prices around Baltimore fall under $3 a gallon, there’s irony in our starting to pay less for fuel at […]

  GOP INCREASES MARGIN IN U.S. HOUSE OF REPS.; LT. GOV. ANTHONY BROWN CONCEDES DEFEAT Presidential aspirant O’Malley nowhere to be found ‘THE BIGGEST UPSET IN THE COUNTRY!’   By Alan Z. Forman   In an election that just weeks ago wasn’t even expected to be close, Annapolis businessman Larry Hogan won a decisive victory […]

  IS GAMBLING BALTIMORE’S BIGGEST ATTRACTION? ARE THE ORIOLES AND RAVENS LESS IMPORTANT? Weak candidates and horrendous campaigns OLD-FASHIONED BASEBALL VERSUS NEW   By David Maril   While wondering how many touchdown and passing yardage records the great Baltimore quarterback John Unitas would be shattering if he were alive and playing in today’s pass-happy NFL, […]

  COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY MEANT TO BE USED, NOT WORSHIPPED Bowing down to the Macintosh god; overdosing on ‘Apple (Store) juice’ TECHNICIANS ARE TERMED ‘GENIUSES’   By David Maril   If a politician campaigning for election ever wanted a captive audience for the purpose of shaking hands, telling a few jokes and making hundreds of empty […]