Trump Gets Sweetheart Deal and Still Whines
BALTIMORE – The late District Court Judge Robert Gerstung had a sense of perspective to match his droll sense of
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Michael Olesker, columnist for the News American, Baltimore Sun, and Baltimore Examiner has spent a quarter of a century writing about the city he loves.He is the author of five previous books, including Michael Olesker’s Baltimore: If You Live Here, You’re Home, Journeys to the Heart of Baltimore, and The Colts’ Baltimore: A City and Its Love Affair in the 1950s, all published by Johns Hopkins.
Author: Michael Olesker
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