ORDINARY CITIZENS PLAY MAJOR ROLE HELPING TO KEEP  SPORTING EVENTS, PUBLIC GATHERINGS & TRAVEL SAFE Not enough credit is given to the average Joe   By David Maril   The governor of Massachusetts, mayor of Boston, and high-ranking officials from the various law enforcement agencies basked in the glory last week of the announcement that […]

  RUNNING  WITH HILLARY COULD BE A GIANT LEAP TOWARD WHITE HOUSE This and other musings for this week’s ‘Inside Pitch’   By David Maril   While wondering if Gov. Martin O’Malley already has staffers working on his acceptance speech as Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential running-mate for 2016, it’s interesting to note the following: It’s […]

  MARYLAND LIVE! CASINO AND POWER PLANT DEVELOPER PUT $116 MILLION INTO OFFSHORE TRUST ACCOUNTS TO (LEGALLY) AVOID PAYING  U.S. FEDERAL TAXES Table games to begin at Maryland Live! this Thursday   By Alan Z. Forman   The Baltimore-based Cordish Companies, whose slot machines and table games at casinos such as Maryland Live! regularly entice […]

  BIRDS’  ‘MIRACLE’ SEASON  CONTINUES; NATIONALS WIN 1st 2013 GAME IN D.C. It was as if the Orioles’ “miracle” season of 2012 hadn’t ended yet, as the Birds stunned the Tampa Bay Rays with a five-run seventh inning Tuesday to win their 2013 opening game by a score of 7-4 in St. Petersburg, Fla. The […]

  INAUGURATION OF OPINION COLUMN BEGINS WITH  FORMER EDITOR’S ANALYSIS  OF  CHEAPSKATES Return of the Native Beginning today and scheduled to appear on a regular basis in this space, Voice of Baltimore is pleased to initiate a series of columns by longtime Massachusetts newspaper editor David Maril, a native of Baltimore who recently returned to […]