STATE  DELEGATE  HEATHER R. MIZEUR THROWS HAT IN RING FOR GOVERNOR IMMEDIATELY BEFORE ANNUAL EVENT Would be first openly gay governor elected in U.S.   By Alan Z. Forman   Except for Spiro Agnew in the late 1960s and Bob Ehrlich near the beginning of the new millennium, Maryland has elected only Democrats to […]

  VOICE OF L.A. DODGERS STILL GOING STRONG AFTER  64  YEARS   Games available on MLB Extra Innings package   By David Maril   There’s no end these days to the programming that sports fans can purchase on satellite and cable television or for their computers. If you’ve got the time, interest and money, telecasts of every […]

BALTIMORE CITY POLITICIANS HOPE  WATER-RATE  HIKES WON’T DAMPEN SPIRITS When you comin’ back, Lone Ranger? — with apologies to Red Ryder   By David Maril   While wondering if the 40 percent increase in Baltimore water rate fees over three years would have been necessary if the more than $10 million still owed the city […]

  RENOWNED JOHNS HOPKINS NEUROSURGEON WOULD BE ILL-ADVISED  TO RUN FOR OFFICE Should stick to medicine and helping people   By David Maril   I’ll never forget the only time I ever met Dr. Ben Carson. It was on a tension-packed late-night visit to the intensive care unit of Johns Hopkins Hospital a long time […]

REMEMBERING  SKIPPER,  A BLACK LAB WHO UNDERSTOOD HOW TO GET OVER WITHOUT EVER HAVING TO ROLL OVER TYDTWD, a/k/a Take Your Dog To Work Day   By David Maril   One thought  crosses my mind every year when I hear of special event dates similar to last Friday’s Take Your Dog To Work Day:  I […]