Baltimore City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is the daughter of one of the state’s most legendary politicians. But she’s shown enough skill, judgment, and smarts on her way to City Hall to prove that she’s capable of creating her own legacy.
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has been trying to fix Baltimore since she was six years old.
"If a kid was walking down the street and dropped a Popsicle stick or a candy wrapper," recalls her mother,...
The unpredictable, incomprehensible, and hilarious wisdom of kids.
Never a mommy, but now a nana. That’s me.
It’s a bit unusual, perhaps, but I never had kids of my own, and I married a man with children. Now, those children have babies of their own, making me...
In an age of athletic steroid scandals, white-collar bodybuilders are giving the sport a good name.
Dr. Lisa Auckland, a 14-year veteran of the Maryland Poison Center, spends her workdays helping save lives and avert disaster. But the most remarkable aspect of Aukland's life isn't her day job,...
Will politicians show you charts and graphs that don't tell the whole story? Can real estate agents mislead you with numbers? Can a low-interest credit card actually cost you more?
Yes, yes, and...
Dr. Andrés Alonso is shaking things up—and making a few enemies—as he tries to fix the long-ailing Baltimore City school system.
Andrés Alonso made his priorities clear on day one.
It was June 13, 2007. After a top-secret, months-long search for a new CEO for the Baltimore City Schools, Alonso was being introduced to an...
The head of the Greater Baltimore Committee on missing Trent Dilfer, his dream job, and why he’ll never be all wet.
No, it’s not the BDC or the BCF or the EAB. It’s the GBC, a consortium of civic leaders dedicated to “strengthening Greater Baltimore’s business climate.” President and CEO Don Fry sets the...
What happens when you’re die-hard Republican red—but your beloved is true Democratic blue?
The phone’s ringing at ezStorage in Owings Mills, and a delivery man is waiting for a signature. But Lori Brazill is on far too much of a roll to answer the phone. She’s railing about a variety of...
Towson's Anne Wallace crusades against identity thieves.
Twice a week, Anne Wallace drives from her Towson home to Baltimore’s Penn Station, and catches the MARC train No. 513 to Washington, D.C.—one of 20,000 commuters who ride the MARC every day. That’s...
The singer and activist on bobby socks, Maya Angelo, and second cousins twice removed.
Internationally acclaimed gospel, jazz, and soul singer Lea Gilmore is also a well-regarded advocate and spokesperson for civil rights. She calls herself the “singing policy wonk.” We call her “...
Almost six years after "the best show on TV" began, the man behind the series comes clean about why he did what he did.
“We want to be out of The Wire business,” says the mayor of Baltimore, repeating the affirmation that began this call twenty minutes ago, stalling us in the Safeway parking lot on Boston Street.
I am...
