THE SHIFTING SANDS OF A CHILDREN’S TOY THREATEN CANDIDACY OF A FRONTRUNNER Ex-governor will survive, but at what cost? INSTEAD OF SAVORING AN ENDORSEMENT, HE IS FORCED  TO DO  DAMAGE CONTROL   By Alan Z. Forman   What politician wouldn’t love to have an Etch A Sketch to reinvent a political persona, erase a […]

High school students, neighborhood residents and anti-gay protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, faced off this week at a gay rights rally outside Glen Burnie High School dealing with same-sex marriage. Photojournalist Kaitlin Newman was there on assignment for Voice of Baltimore and filed this report, along with exclusive photographs.     […]

  CEO’S MOM  PROVIDES CHICKEN SOUP IN THE FORM OF  $100,000 LOAN TO CURE AILING MAGAZINE   By Alan Z. Forman   UPDATE (April 2nd):  The Baltimore Jewish Times was sold at bankruptcy auction this morning to the owner of Washington Jewish Week for $1.26 million.  (Read the Baltimore Business Journal story by clicking here.) […]

  LEGACY JOURNALISM AT  A  CROSSROADS The  New  Republic  magazine, newly sold  to Facebook alum, also to continue  print format   By Alan Z. Forman   As pundits everywhere decry the decline of so-called legacy journalism in America — and predict its inevitable demise — a Baltimore business publication is proving the prognosticators wrong and […]

  CONSTELLATION ENERGY  MERGER INTO EXELON CORP. DUE MONDAY Massive merged energy provider scheduled  to  leave  downtown for  bakery magnate Paterakis’ 27-acre Harbor Point complex   Baltimore stands to lose up to 600 jobs, many of them high-paying, along with its last Fortune 500 company when Exelon Corp. takes over Constellation Energy Group Monday morning. […]