Widely criticized in recent years, top prosecutor Patricia Jessamy is more certain than ever that she'll win her case.
It is 6:57 p.m. on a steamy evening in East Baltimore and Patricia C. Jessamy is running late after a very long day that isn't over yet. The city's top prosecutor spent her morning in meetings, her...
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,...
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...
Part of our "100 Years: The Twelve Events That Shaped Baltimore" series
To explain what is meant by “Baltimore Seals Its Borders,” we need to go back to the election season of 1948—by any measure, one tumultuous affair. With the nation transfixed by a Dewey-Truman...
WBAL-AM has dropped hit shows (Rush) and lost popular hosts (Chip) and listeners. How will it rebound?
Since the spring of 2006, WBAL-AM—the city's top-rated talk and news station—has lost some of its highest-rated and most hyped hosts and programs.
WBAL announced the cancellation of Rush Limbaugh's...
Part of our "100 Years: The Twelve Events That Shaped Baltimore" series
William Donald Schaefer, the Michelangelo of Baltimore's renaissance, first ran for public office under the guidance of Alvie Unglesbie, an earnest but thoroughly unschooled friend from the local...
To define power is a tricky thing. To us, power is that elusive combination of elements that allows an individual to get his or her way, no matter the obstacles. It's an elixir of strength,...
Baltimore’s ex-con ex-police commissioner has reinvented himself as a rising talk radio star. But if Ed Norris could have any job he wanted, he’d take his old one back.
On clear days, Ed Norris rides his new motorcycle, a Victory Kingpin, to his four-hour radio gig, where he holds forth on everything from the war in Iraq to the Ravens to the city schools.
Some...
Where does a former Secretary of Defense go to relax? Donald Rumsfeld may head to his St. Michaels home.
This month, the residents and business owners of Talbot County's tiny, tony St. Michaels may be seeing a bit more of one of their more important part-time residents—former Secretary of Defense...
He’s been in politics for more than half his life. So what’s next for William Donald Schaefer? He hasn’t a clue.
In the waning days of his half-century at the heart of public life in Maryland, William Donald Schaefer sits by himself. The crowds that once cheered him have all drifted away now, and this most...
