Top illustration by Tim Forkes Lately I’ve been binge watching the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire. I’ve written about it before (kudos to creator David Simon),  I forget when

A nearly empty Amtrak car en route to Colonial Williamsburg. (Credit Leonard Kinsey) Due to COVID-19 I hadn’t been out of Baltimore since March, and wanderlust was starting to get

When the vessel, the Pride of Baltimore II, “America’s Star-Spangled Ambassador,” sails into the waters of Baltimore’s outer harbor, it passes two land-based forts. On its port side is

Roland and 36 Streets - a ghost town atmosphere. Photo By Bill Hughes. BALTIMORE — It’s a hard, scary time for sure. COVID-19 is the enemy, but you can’t see

Twelve-term Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings died early Thursday morning at age 68, Cummings' office said in a statement. "At approximately 2:30 A.M. on Thursday October 17, 2019, Congressman Elijah

Nancy Pelosi is a 79-year-old Democrat from San Francisco, CA. In January 2019, she began serving her second term as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Her first term

Although the temperature hovered around the ninety-degree mark in the late afternoon of Thursday, September 12, 2019, it was even hotter in the section of Baltimore known as Harbor

Baltimore City Police Commissioner Kevin Davis talks with community leader Genard “Shadow” Barr in the new HBO documentary Baltimore Rising. (courtesy HBO) In April 2015, a seemingly routine arrest turned

Illustration by Mike Konopacki Since President Trump called protesting NFL players “sons of bitches,” who should be fired on September 22, I have been reading dozens of Facebook posts on